Edgar Kennedy
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 best 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. Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio hired him to play hotheads. He often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman. His character usually lost his temper at least once. In Diplomaniacs, Kennedy presides over an international tribunal, where Wheeler & Woolsey want to do something about world peace. "Well, ya can't do anything about it here", yells Kennedy, "this is a peace conference!" Kennedy, established as the poster boy for frustration, even starred in an instructional film titled The Other Fellow, in which loudmouthed roadhog Edgar always vents his anger on other drivers (each one played by Kennedy as well), little realizing that, to them, he is "the other fellow." Perhaps his most unusual roles were as a puppeteer in the detective mystery The Falcon Strikes Back and as a philosophical bartender inspired to create exotic cocktails in Harold Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947). He also played comical detectives opposite two titans of acting: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century (1934) and Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours (1948); in the latter, he tells conductor Harrison that "Nobody handles Handel like you handle Handel." Kennedy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, San Fernando Valley on 9 November 1948. His body was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 134 (now 58)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Age 86 (now 58)The Best of Laurel and Hardy
as Officer Kennedy (archive footage)
Age 78 (now 58)
When Comedy Was King
as edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
Age 69 (now 58)
Variety Time
as Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
Age 58
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
as Jake the Bartender
Age 56 (now 58)
The Girl from Monterrey
as Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
Age 53 (now 58)
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
as Police Chief Murphy
Age 52 (now 58)
There's One Born Every Minute
as Mayor Moe Carson
Age 52 (now 58)
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
as George Browning
Age 50 (now 58)
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Inspector Dailey
Age 49 (now 58)
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
as Arthur Bailey
Age 48 (now 58)
The First Seven Years
as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
Age 39 (now 58)
Shivering Shakespeare
as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
Age 39 (now 58)
Should Married Men Go Home?
as Golfer (uncredited)
Age 38 (now 58)
The Trouble With Wives
as Detective (as Edward Kennedy)
Age 35 (now 58)
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as German Prison Guard (uncredited)
Age 28 (now 58)
A Scoundrel's Toll
as Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent
Age 26 (now 58)
That Little Band Of Gold
as Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)
Age 24 (now 58)
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
as 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
Age 24 (now 58)
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
as The cafe waiter (uncredited)
Age 24 (now 58)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)
Age 24 (now 58)
'Curses!' They Remarked
as Ethel's Former Boyfriend
Age 24 (now 58)
Mabel at the Wheel
as Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)
Age 23 (now 58)
Mabel's Dramatic Career
as Audience Member / Cop in Movie
Age 23 (now 58)
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Also Known As
E. Livingston Kennedy, Ed. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Ed Kennedy
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