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George Kennedy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

18/02/1925

Day of Death

28/02/2016
(91) years old

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

George Kennedy

Biography

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 pos... Read More

Known For

Airports

The Gambler

Another Happy Day

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

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

The Man Who Came Back

The Boneyard Collection

Sands of Oblivion

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

Don't Come Knocking

Filmography

Cast

2025

Airports

2014

The Gambler

as Ed

2011

Another Happy Day

as Joe Baker

2010

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

as (archive footage)

2008

A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making ...

as Self

2008

The Man Who Came Back

as Judge Duke

2008

The Boneyard Collection

as Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The D...

2007

Sands of Oblivion

as John Tevis

2006

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dir...

as Self

2005

Don't Come Knocking

as Director

2005

Three Bad Men

as Ed Fiske

2005

Truce

as Dr. Peter Gannon

2003

Monster Makers

as Dexter Brisbane

2003

View from the Top

as Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)

1998

Men in White

as Army

1998

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!

as Mr. Johnson

1998

Small Soldiers

as Brick Bazooka (voice)

1998

Dallas: War of The Ewings

as Carter McKay

1998

Hollyweird

as George Kennedy

1997

Cats Don't Dance

as L.B. Mammoth (voice)

1997

Bayou Ghost

as Officer Lowe

1996

Dallas: J.R. Returns

as Carter McKay

1994

WWE SummerSlam 1994

as Himself

1994

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

as Ed Hocken

1992

Distant Justice

as Tom Bradfield

1992

Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story

as Father Dave Hagan

1991

Intensive Care

as Dr. Bruckner

1991

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

as Ed Hocken

1991

Driving Me Crazy

as John McCready

1991

Hangfire

as Warden Barles

1990

The Cops Are Robbers

1990

Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist

as Bahraini Investigator

1990

Hired to Kill

as Thomas

1990

Brain Dead

as Vance

1989

Ministry of Vengeance

as Rev. Hughes

1989

Esmeralda Bay

as Wilson

1989

The Terror Within

as Hal

1988

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police ...

as Ed Hocken

1988

Uninvited

as Mike Harvey

1988

Top Line

as Heinrich Holzmann

1988

Nightmare at Noon

as Sherrif Hanks

1988

Private Road: No Trespassing

as Sam Milshaw

1988

Demonwarp

as Bill Crafton

1988

Counterforce

as Vince Colby

1988

Born to Race

as Vincent Duplain

1988

What Price Victory

as Big Buck Brayton

1987

The Gambler: The Legend Continues

as General Nelson Miles

1987

Creepshow 2

as Ray Spruce

1987

The Gunfighters

as Deke Turner

1986

Radioactive Dreams

as Spade Chandler

1986

Liberty

as Seamus Reilly

1986

The Delta Force

as Father O'Malley

1985

Savage Dawn

as Tick Rand

1985

International Airport

as Rudy Van Leuven

1985

Rigged

as Ben

1985

Half Nelson

as Parsons

1984

Rare Breed

1984

Bolero

as Cotton

1984

The Jesse Owens Story

as Charles 'Charley' Riley

1984

Chattanooga Choo Choo

as Bert

1982

The Jupiter Menace

as Himself

1982

Wacko

as Mr. Doctor Graves

1981

Just Before Dawn

as Roy McLean

1981

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

as Brakus

1981

Modern Romance

as George Kennedy / Zeron

1980

Hotwire

as Farley & Harley Fontenot

1980

Virus

as Admiral Conway

1980

Death Ship

as Captain Ashland

1979

Steel

as Big Lew Cassidy

1979

The Concorde... Airport '79

as Joe Patroni

1979

Search and Destroy

as Anthony Fusqua

1979

The Double McGuffin

as Chief Talasek

1978

Brass Target

as Gen. George S. Patton

1978

Death on the Nile

as Andrew Pennington

1978

Mean Dog Blues

as Captain Omar Kinsman

1977

Proof of the Man

as Ken Shuftan

1977

Airport '77

as Joe Patroni

1975

The Human Factor

as John Kinsdale

1975

The Eiger Sanction

as Ben Bowman

1975

The Blue Knight

as Bumper Morgan

1975

The Lion Roars Again

as Self

1974

Earthquake

as Sgt. Lew Slade

1974

Airport 1975

as Joe Patroni

1974

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

as Red Leary

1974

A Cry in the Wilderness

as Sam Hadley

1974

Sonic Boom

as Ben Dover

1973

Deliver Us from Evil

as Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams

1973

Cahill: United States Marshal

as Abe Fraser

1973

Lost Horizon

as Sam Cornelius

1972

A Great American Tragedy

as Brad Wilkes

1972

The Bull of the West

as 'Bear' Suchette

1971

The Priest Killer

as Father Samuel Cavanaugh

1971

Fools' Parade

as Dallas 'Doc' Council

1971

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

as Sarge Swanson

1970

Dirty Dingus Magee

as Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill

1970

Zig Zag

as Paul R. Cameron

1970

Airport

as Joe Patroni

1970

… tick… tick… tick…

as John Little

1969

Gaily, Gaily

as Axel P. Johanson

1969

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

as McKay

1969

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

as Chris

1968

The Pink Jungle

as Sammy Ryderbeit

1968

The Boston Strangler

as Det. Phil DiNatale

1968

The Legend of Lylah Clare

as Matt Burke

1968

Bandolero!

as Sheriff July Johnson

1968

The Ballad of Josie

as Arch Ogden

1967

Cool Hand Luke

as Dragline

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Major Max Armbruster

1967

Hurry Sundown

as Sheriff Coombs

1965

The Flight of the Phoenix

as Bellamy

1965

Mirage

as Willard

1965

The Sons of Katie Elder

as Curley

1965

Shenandoah

as Col. Fairchild

1965

In Harm's Way

as Colonel Gregory

1964

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

as Foreman

1964

See How They Run

as Rudy

1964

Island of the Blue Dolphins

as Aleut Captain

1964

McHale's Navy

as Henri Le Clerc

1964

Strait-Jacket

as Leo Krause

1963

Charade

as Herman Scobie

1963

The Man from the Diners' Club

as George

1962

Lonely are the Brave

as Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez

1961

Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon

as Hawk

1961

The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come

as Nathan Dillon