George Kennedy

George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, A World War II veteran, actor, adviser, radio dj, and author. Kennedy at one stage in his career cornered the market at playing tough, no-nonsense characters who were either quite crooked or possessed hearts of gold. Kennedy notched up an impressive 200+ appearances in both TV and film, and was well respected within the Hollywood community. He started out in TV westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), Maverick (1957), Colt .45 (1957), among others; before scoring minor roles in films including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). The late 1960s was a very busy period for Kennedy, and he was strongly in favor with casting agents, appearing in Hurry Sundown (1967), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and scoring an Oscar win as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cool Hand Luke (1967). The disaster film boom of the 1970s was kind to Kennedy, too, and his talents were in demand for Airport(1970) and the three subsequent sequels, as a grizzled cop in Earthquake (1974), plus the buddy/road film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) as vicious bank robber Red Leary. The 1980s saw Kennedy appear in a mishmash of roles, playing various characters; however, Kennedy and Leslie Nielsen surprised everyone with their comedic talents in the hugely successful The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), and the two screen veterans hammed it up again in, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), plus Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). Kennedy remained busy in Hollywood and lent his distinctive voice to the animated Cats Don't Dance (1997) and the children's action film Small Soldiers (1998). A Hollywood stalwart for nearly 50 years, he is one of the most enjoyable actors to watch on screen. His last role was in the film The Gambler (2014), as Mark Wahlberg's character's grandfather. George Kennedy died on February 28, 2016 in Middleton, Idaho.

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Dettaglio della persona

George Kennedy

Filmografia

Nick mano fredda

Quella sporca dozzina

Il volo della fenice

Piano... piano dolce Carlotta

Airport

Assassinio sul Nilo

Sciarada

Assassinio sull'Eiger

Terremoto

Shenandoah - La valle dell'onore

Bolero Extasy

Brain Dead

La stella di latta

Small Soldiers

Sands of Oblivion

Una calibro 20 per lo specialista

Airport '77

Il giustiziere

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

La nave fantasma

Le pistole dei magnifici sette

Lo strangolatore di Boston

Airport '75

Non bussare alla mia porta

Demonwarp

The Terror Within

Airport '80

Una pallottola spuntata 33⅓ - L'insulto finale

5 corpi senza testa

Bandolero!

Ultimo rifugio: Antartide

Another Happy Day

Solo sotto le stelle

Una pallottola spuntata

Una pallottola spuntata 2½ - L'odore della paura

Delta Force

I 4 figli di Katie Elder

Dennis colpisce ancora

Creepshow 2

Uninvited

The Man Who Came Back

Sogni radioattivi

L'uomo dinamite

Just Before Dawn

Dingus, quello sporco individuo

Mirage

Il grande giorno di Jim Flagg

La donna del West

Il giorno della Crisalide

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

Obiettivo Brass

Il falso testimone

Search and Destroy

Wacko

Tick... tick... tick... esplode la violenza

The Gunfighters

Savage Dawn

A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke'

Top model per uccidere

The Double McGuffin

Orizzonte perduto

6 uomini d'acciaio

Born to Race

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

Monster Makers

Top Line

Il solitario del West

Chicago Chicago

Intensive Care

E venne la notte

Mean Dog Blues

Il piede più lungo

Hotwire

Private Road: No Trespassing

Deliver Us from Evil