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Edgar Kennedy is a Actor and Director American born on 25 april 1890 at Monterey County (USA)

Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy
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Birth name Edgar Livingston Kennedy
Nationality USA
Birth 25 april 1890 at Monterey County (USA)
Death 9 november 1948 (at 58 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film character actor, known as "Slow Burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper. Kennedy is known for a small role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, as well as the many Hal Roach films he appeared in.

Biography

L'Internet Movie Database le recense comme ayant joué dans 408 films entre 1911 et 1948 (le dernier sort en 1949, l'année suivant son décès). Il est surtout connu pour s'être illustré dans le genre du burlesque, tournant notamment quantité de courts métrages — dont nombre des fameux slapsticks du studio Keystone (qu'il rejoint dès 1912), dans "l'équipe" des "Keystone Cops" — durant la période du cinéma muet. Parmi ses partenaires, mentionnons Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, les Marx Brothers, Stan Laurel et Oliver Hardy, entre autres.

Il réalise lui-même 25 courts métrages entre 1922 et 1932.

Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

Usually with

Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
(60 films)
Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
(40 films)
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
(18 films)
Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand
(25 films)
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey
(22 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edgar Kennedy (189 films)

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Actor

My Dream Is Yours
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
, 1h41
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Friz Freleng
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Uncle Charlie
Rating65% 3.296583.296583.296583.296583.29658
The film opens in Los Angeles, where Doug Blake (Carson) is dumped as a manager by Gary Mitchell (Bowman). He goes to New York City to find a new singer to replace Gary on the Hour of Enchantment radio show. While in New York, he discovers Martha Gibson (Day) turning records in a jukebox factory. He takes her to Los Angeles and tries to introduce her to Felix Hofer (Sakall). His efforts lead to a series of communication failures.
Unfaithfully Yours
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
, 1h45
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallée, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger, Lionel Stander
Roles Sweeney
Rating74% 3.745143.745143.745143.745143.74514
Sir Alfred de Carter (Rex Harrison) is a world-famous symphony conductor who returns from a visit to his native England and discovers that his rich and boring brother-in-law, August Henshler (Rudy Vallee), has misunderstood Alfred's casual instruction to watch over his much younger wife Daphne (Linda Darnell) while he was away, and instead hired a detective named Sweeney (Edgar Kennedy) to follow her. Alfred is livid, and ineptly attempts to destroy any evidence of the detective's report.
Variety Time
Variety Time (1948)
, 59minutes
Directed by Hal Yates
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Hans Conried, Leon Errol, Dot Farley, Dorothy Granger, Edgar Kennedy, William S. Hart
Roles Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
Rating56% 2.8337852.8337852.8337852.8337852.833785
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
, 1h29
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Rudy Vallée, Pat O'Brien, Raymond Walburn, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Jake the Bartender
Rating63% 3.1969753.1969753.1969753.1969753.196975
In 1945, twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team (as told in The Freshman), mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd), who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Waggleberry (Raymond Walburn), with nothing but a tiny pension of $1,000. He bids farewell to the girl at the desk down the aisle, Miss Otis (Frances Ramsden), whom he had hoped to marry – just as he had hoped to marry five of her older sisters before that – and wanders aimlessly through the streets, his life's savings in hand.
Heaven Only Knows
Heaven Only Knows (1947)
, 1h40
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Western
Actors Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds, John Litel, Bill Goodwin, Stuart Erwin
Roles Judd
Rating65% 3.292753.292753.292753.292753.29275
Due to a clerical error in heaven, a man who was to become a solid citizen and community leader, Duke Byron (Brian Donlevy), is born without a soul and instead becomes a corrupt gambling hall owner. To his dismay, he discovers that he has a guardian angel, Mike (Robert Cummings), who shows up in the guise of an Eastern tenderfoot, sent to help put Duke on the life path for which he was originally destined.
Anchors Aweigh
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
, 2h23
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton, José Iturbi
Roles Police Captain
Rating69% 3.4976153.4976153.4976153.4976153.497615
Joe Brady and Clarence Doolittle are Navy sailors who have a four-day leave in Hollywood. Joe has his heart set on spending time with his girl, the unseen Lola. Clarence, the shy choir boy turned sailor, asks Joe to teach him how to get girls. Donald, a little boy who wants to join the navy, is found wandering around the boulevard by a cop, who takes him to the police station. Clarence and Joe end up being picked up by the cops to help convince Donald to go home. After the two sailors wait at home and entertain Donald, Donald's Aunt Susie arrives. Clarence is smitten with her from the beginning. Susan goes on to tell them that she has been trying to find work in music, and longs to perform with José Iturbi. Trying to make Susan impressed with Clarence, Joe tells her that Clarence is a personal friend of Iturbi, and that he has arranged an audition for Susan with him. That night, they go out to a cafe, where Clarence meets a girl from Brooklyn, and they hit it off. The next day, Joe visits Donald's school, and tells the kids the story of how he got his medal, and how he brought happiness to a lonesome king (played by Jerry Mouse of Tom and Jerry), and joy to the forest animals of the kingdom.
Captain Tugboat Annie
Captain Tugboat Annie (1945)
, 1h10
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jane Darwell, Edgar Kennedy, Mantan Moreland, Jack Norton, Cyril Delevanti, Pamela Blake
Roles Captain Bullwinkle
Rating62% 3.1494253.1494253.1494253.1494253.149425
Right after the war has ended, tugboats are allowed to freely operate again in the US coastal waters. The owner of Secoma Towing & Salvage, Alec Severn (Joseph Crehan), starts searching for the famous Tugboat Annie Brennan (Jane Darwell), to incorporate her back as the captain of his fleet of tugboats.
It Happened Tomorrow
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
, 1h25
Directed by René Clair
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Time travel films
Actors Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy, Edward Brophy, Sig Ruman
Roles Insp. Mulrooney
Rating69% 3.495433.495433.495433.495433.49543
In the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens (Dick Powell) is an obituary writer unhappy in his job who is given, by a ghostly deceased newspaper man named Pop Benson (John Philliber), a newspaper that has tomorrow's news. He uses the paper to write stories and get the scoop on other reporters, but this also brings him under the suspicion of Police Inspector Mulrooney (Edgar Kennedy), who wants to know how Stevens always seems to know what's going to happen and where, mainly a robbery at a theater's box office during a performance. Stevens and his new girlfriend Sylvia (Linda Darnell) – half of a clairvoyant act with her uncle Oscar Smith (Jack Oakie) – have a number of adventures, until her uncle mistakenly thinks that Stevens has consorted with his niece in her boarding house room. The uncle attempts to intimidate Stevens into marrying her, not knowing that Stevens has come to him to ask for her hand.
The Great Alaskan Mystery
The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
, 3h43
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Milburn Stone, Marjorie Weaver, Edgar Kennedy, Samuel S. Hinds, Martin Kosleck, Ralph Morgan
Roles Bosun Higgins
Rating63% 3.1782953.1782953.1782953.1782953.178295
James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...
The Falcon Strikes Back
The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
, 1h6
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Harriet Nelson, Jane Randolph, Edgar Kennedy, Cliff Edwards, Rita Corday
Roles Smiley Dugan
Rating63% 3.1931653.1931653.1931653.1931653.193165
Framed for the theft of valuable war bonds, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway) hides out at a country resort. Here he discovers that Mia Bruger (Rita Corday), who engineered the frame, has been murdered by persons unknown. Snooping around a bit, Lawrence uncovers an insidious and widespread war-bond racket.
Air Raid Wardens
Air Raid Wardens (1943)
, 1h7
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally, Nella Walker
Roles Joe Bledsoe
Rating61% 3.05423.05423.05423.05423.0542
Set during World War II, just after Pearl Harbor, Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success. They finally open it as a bicycle store, but it goes bankrupt and they close it down to enlist in the army. They fail in every attempt to succeed in the military and return to their home town Huxton only to find out that their store now is open, with a man named Eustace Middling (Donald Meek) in charge, selling radios instead of bicycles. But Middling offers the unfortunate brothers to share the space in a joint venture. Stan and oliie don't realize that Middling in fact is a German spy, using the shop as a front to cover a base for espionage on the US Military. The brothers also join the civil defense by becoming air raid wardens in Huxton. To complete their training, they have to take part in an advanced military drill, and Stan of course manages to get the wrong assignment—one that is far more complicated than they can handle. They set out on their mission, to rescue a very prominent banker, J.P. Norton (Howard Freeman), from a fire. They fail hugely with their mission, ending up burying the banker alive in a huge load of sand. Still, they are given one more chance to prove their aptitude as air raid wardens, involving the task of ensuring that all the town citizens turn off their lights at night. They get into a quarrel with one of the more troublesome inhabitants, Joe Bledsoe (Edgar Kennedy), resulting in a commotion and a rumor that spy activity is taking place in Joe's home. The brothers are knocked out, and in the end they are finally dismissed from the corps altogether. When they return to their shop, they happen to overhear the psies speaking German, and follow them to a hide-out outside of town. They find out that Middling's real name is Mittelhause, and overhear him talking about blowing the town's magnesium plant to pieces with another spy, Rittenhause (Henry O'Neill). The brothers try to send a message to the civil defense, but instead they are captured by the German spies. Stan accidentally knocks out one of the spies and the boys manage to flee and alert the civil defense, who arrive at the plant just in time to stop the sabotage. Stan and Ollie also expose Middling as a German spy.
The Girl from Monterrey
The Girl from Monterrey (1943)
, 58minutes
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Armida, Edgar Kennedy, Veda Ann Borg, Jack La Rue, Anthony Caruso, Charles Williams
Roles Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
Rating50% 2.534512.534512.534512.534512.53451
In a Mexican nightclub, some American fight promoters witness Alberto 'Baby' Valdez, the brother of Lita Valdez knock out a champion fighter. At first Lita is angered that her brother has quit his law studies to become a fighter, but the two move to the United States. Lita literally bumps into reigning champion Jerry O'Leary with the three becoming inseparable friends. However the American fight promoters force Alberto and Jerry to fight each other or face suspension.