Edgar Kennedy
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-04-25
Place of birth
Monterey, California, USA
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Cast
Duck Soup
1933
7.32
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
6.73
The Ghosts
1930
0.00
Blondie in Society
1941
7.40
Double Wedding
1937
6.37
Dough and Dynamite
1914
6.10
Cruel, Cruel Love
1914
5.10
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
6.30
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
1934
4.00
Li'l Abner
1940
5.80
My Dream Is Yours
1949
6.40
A Star Is Born
1937
7.20
Twentieth Century
1934
6.80
The Rural Third Degree
1913
0.00
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
5.60
The Trouble With Wives
1925
0.00
In Old California
1942
5.10
Air Raid Wardens
1943
7.10
Hollywood Hotel
1938
5.40
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
5.50
The Our Gang Story
1994
0.00
The Chinese Parrot
1927
0.00
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
1913
0.00
It's a Wonderful World
1939
6.40
Whose Baby?
1917
0.00
The Fight Pest
1928
0.00
The Family Group
1928
0.00
The Booster
1928
0.00
All Parts
1928
0.00
Imagine My Embarrassment
1928
0.00
Is Everybody Happy?
1928
0.00
Chasing Husbands
1928
0.00
Off to Buffalo
1929
0.00
Great Gobs!
1929
0.00
Night Owls
1930
7.42
The Love Thief
1914
0.00
Perfect Day
1929
6.96
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928
6.40
The Finishing Touch
1928
6.80
Leave 'Em Laughing
1928
5.90
Bacon Grabbers
1929
6.30
Two Tars
1928
6.70
Unaccustomed as We Are
1929
6.90
The Knockout
1914
5.69
The Star Boarder
1914
5.10
Twenty Minutes of Love
1914
5.60
Gentlemen of Nerve
1914
5.70
Getting Acquainted
1914
5.30
A Thief Catcher
1914
4.90
Giggle Water
1932
0.00
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932
5.47
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936
4.20
Little Big Shot
1935
6.00
Son of the Border
1933
9.00
When Comedy Was King
1960
6.70
Small Town Girl
1936
5.90
Little Orphan Annie
1932
5.80
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
1915
5.60
Racing for Life
1924
0.00
Tillie and Gus
1933
7.60
The Cowboy Millionaire
1935
6.00
True Confession
1937
5.80
Flirting with Danger
1934
5.00
Three Men on a Horse
1936
6.20
Making a Living
1914
5.70
Fatty Joins the Force
1913
5.40
Mad Holiday
1936
6.00
The Girl from Monterrey
1943
0.00
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
4.20
The Marines Are Coming
1934
4.50
Good Housewrecking
1933
0.00
Art in the Raw
1933
1.00
The Golden Princess
1925
0.00
The Sky Pirate
1914
0.00
Love and Bullets
1914
0.00
Super-Sleuth
1937
5.00
Money Means Nothing
1934
4.00
A Blasted Event
1934
0.00
Thieves
1930
6.90
The Late Lamented
1917
0.00
A Merchant of Menace
1933
0.00
Algy on the Force
1913
0.00
Hey! Hey! USA
1938
7.00
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943
4.00
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
1915
5.60
Will Power
1936
0.00
Dumb Daddies
1928
0.00
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
4.80
Moan & Groan, Inc.
1929
5.50
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940
4.30
Living on Velvet
1935
5.50
Something for Nothing
1923
0.00
The Other Fellow
1937
0.00
He's a Honey
1932
0.00
Professional Sweetheart
1933
5.00
Tramp Trouble
1937
0.00
Remedy for Riches
1940
4.80
The Better 'Ole
1926
5.00
We're Rich Again
1934
5.20
Now's the Time
1932
0.00
The Little Girl Next Door
1923
0.00
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944
5.00
Beaux and Errors
1938
0.00
Dumb's the Word
1937
0.00
Gridiron Flash
1934
3.30
When's Your Birthday?
1937
4.00
The Silver Streak
1934
6.80
Wrong Direction
1934
0.00
When the Wind Blows
1930
6.10
Woman Wanted
1935
6.30
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
6.00
There's One Born Every Minute
1942
7.20
The Bride Comes Home
1935
4.50
Limousine Love
1928
5.70
Private Snuffy Smith
1942
3.80
Anchors Aweigh
1945
6.80
The Gangsters
1913
6.00
The First Seven Years
1930
5.20
Peeping Pete
1913
6.00
A Muddy Romance
1913
4.80
The Speed Kings
1913
4.60
Safe in Jail
1913
8.00
Rastus and the Game Cock
1913
0.00
Love and Rubbish
1913
4.50
A Noise from the Deep
1913
5.50
The Riot
1913
0.00
Mabel's New Hero
1913
5.10
Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913
5.50
A Quiet Little Wedding
1913
0.00
Mother's Boy
1913
0.00
A Ride for a Bride
1913
0.00
A Flirt's Mistake
1914
5.40
Tango Tangles
1914
5.10
Rebecca's Wedding Day
1914
0.00
In the Clutches of the Gang
1914
0.00
His Favorite Pastime
1914
5.15
A Bath House Beauty
1914
0.00
Scarlet River
1933
4.50
The Great Vacuum Robbery
1915
0.00
The Battling Fool
1924
0.00
The Wrong Mr. Wright
1927
0.00
The Black Doll
1938
5.30
Going Ga-Ga
1929
6.80
A Pair of Tights
1929
7.60
Diplomaniacs
1933
7.00
Trent's Last Case
1929
0.00
Westward Passage
1932
5.80
Fatal Lady
1936
0.00
Captain Tugboat Annie
1945
0.00
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919
5.30
The Real McCoy
1930
6.50
Their First Execution
1913
0.00
Dollar Dizzy
1930
6.00
Bangville Police
1913
5.04
Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930
0.00
The Noise of Bombs
1914
5.00
Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914
4.20
The Boy Friend
1928
5.30
Yours for the Asking
1936
3.50
Madcap Ambrose
1916
4.00
His Bitter Pill
1916
5.20
Hearts and Flowers
1919
5.20
A Film Johnnie
1914
5.42
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
5.60
Mabel at the Wheel
1914
5.61
The Rounders
1914
6.10
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
6.10
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
1915
4.70
Fatty's New Role
1915
5.20
Mabel’s Wilful Way
1915
4.90
Wished on Mabel
1915
5.40
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
5.10
Love Fever
1931
3.33
The Head Guy
1930
3.33
The Big Kick
1930
3.00
Heat Lightning
1934
6.80
Baby Daze
1939
0.00
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935
0.00
They Had to See Paris
1929
5.90
Hurdy Gurdy
1929
0.00
King for a Night
1933
6.20
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
1940
5.00
Quiet Please!
1933
2.00
Gasoloons
1936
0.00
Shivering Shakespeare
1930
5.70
Bigger and Better
1930
5.00
Looser Than Loose
1930
4.00
Ladies Last
1930
4.00
Doctor's Orders
1930
9.00
Everything's on Ice
1939
4.50
Wall Street Blues
1924
0.00
Feed 'em and Weep
1928
5.60
Mutiny in the County
1940
0.00
Gangs Of The City
1941
0.00
The Big Squawk
1929
0.00
Kid Millions
1934
6.50
Stepping Out
1929
5.00
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
1915
4.50
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
1920
0.00
Little Billy's Triumph
1914
5.00
Angora Love
1929
6.40
Cross Fire
1933
6.00
Oh! What a Nurse!
1926
0.00
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
6.80
The Gusher
1913
4.50
My Old Dutch
1926
0.00
Rough on Rents
1942
10.00
$1,000 a Minute
1935
5.80
The Quarterback
1940
0.00
Margie
1940
0.00
Sandy Is a Lady
1940
0.00
It's Your Move
1945
0.00
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
1942
1.80
Unfaithfully Yours
1948
7.20
Carnival Boat
1932
5.00
All Teed Up
1930
4.20
Madame Q
1929
6.20
Dad's Day
1929
0.00
Quick Millions
1931
7.10
High Gear
1931
2.00
Fifty Million Husbands
1930
4.20
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
0.00
Next Door Neighbors
1931
0.00
Poisoned Ivory
1934
0.00
Edgar Hamlet
1935
0.00
An Apple in His Eye
1941
0.00
Drafted in the Depot
1940
0.00
High and Dry
1922
0.00
In Love at 40
1935
0.00
Laugh It Off
1939
2.00
Murder on the Blackboard
1934
5.80
Paths to Paradise
1925
5.80
Variety Time
1948
0.00
The Guide
1921
0.00
Hotter Than Hot
1929
0.00
He Loved the Ladies
1914
0.00
All of Me
1934
6.00
Puppets of Fate
1921
0.00
Hold Your Temper
1943
0.00
I'll Fix It
1941
0.00
Westward Ho-Hum
1941
0.00
Heaven Only Knows
1947
6.00
Hitler's Madman
1943
5.27
San Francisco
1936
6.50
Rockabye
1932
6.20
'Curses!' They Remarked
1914
5.00
'Taint Legal
1940
0.00
Girl Shock
1930
5.00
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
1935
6.00
Dummy Ache
1936
5.10
Ears of Experience
1938
0.00
Sunk by the Census
1940
0.00
Clock Wise
1939
0.00
Love on a Ladder
1934
1.00
Prunes and Politics
1944
5.00
A Quiet Fourth
1941
0.00
Scandal Street
1938
0.00
Crazy Feet
1929
5.50
Vocalizing
1936
0.00
Fish Feathers
1932
0.00
A Clean Sweep
1938
0.00
Brick-a-Brac
1935
0.00
A Trailer Tragedy
1940
0.00
Bad Housekeeping
1937
0.00
His Luckless Love
1915
3.00
A Scoundrel's Toll
1916
5.00
Cooks and Crooks
1942
0.00
Duck Soup
1942
0.00
Help Wanted, Female
1931
0.00
Welcome Danger
1929
4.92
Four Times Foiled
1920
0.00
Hot Foot
1943
0.00
Crazy House
1943
5.00
Bad Company
1931
4.60
Going Crooked
1926
0.00
Feather Your Nest
1944
0.00
Radio Rampage
1944
0.00
Across the Pacific
1926
4.00
Sandy Gets Her Man
1940
4.00
Pardon My Stripes
1942
6.00
Finger Prints
1927
0.00
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
6.90
Maid to Order
1939
0.00
Edgar & Goliath
1937
0.00
Kennedy the Great
1939
0.00
What, No Cigarettes
1945
6.00
Why Is a Plumber?
1929
0.00
You Drive Me Crazy
1945
0.00
The Big Beef
1945
0.00
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
1915
5.40
The Gas Station
1930
0.00
Motor Maniacs
1946
0.00
Trouble or Nothing
1946
0.00
I'll Build It Myself
1946
0.00
Bombs!
1916
5.00
Little Accident
1939
2.00
The Bowling Match
1913
0.00
Do or Diet
1947
0.00
An Incompetent Hero
1914
0.00
Zuzu, the Band Leader
1913
0.00
Brother Knows Best
1948
0.00
Dig That Gold
1948
9.50
Contest Crazy
1948
0.00
She Loved Him Plenty
1918
5.00
What Fur
1933
0.00
The Wandering Two
1923
0.00
Inferior Decorator
1943
0.00
The Stolen Triumph
1916
0.00
All's Swell on the Ocean
1924
0.00
The Night Message
1924
0.00
The Gay Old Bird
1927
0.00
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
10.00
The People vs. Nancy Preston
1925
0.00
The Blue Streak
1917
0.00
Skirts
1921
0.00
Fight and Win
1924
0.00