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Edgar Kennedy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

25/04/1890

Day of Death

09/11/1948
(58) years old

Place of Birth

Monterey, California, USA

Edgar Kennedy

Biography

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 ... Read More

Known For

Duck Soup

It Happened Tomorrow

Blondie in Society

Double Wedding

Cruel, Cruel Love

Dough and Dynamite

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

Li'l Abner

Filmography

Cast

2024

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1994

The Our Gang Story

as Officer (archive footage)

1968

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

as Officer Kennedy (archive footage)

1960

When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive ...

1957

The Golden Age of Comedy

as archive footage

1949

My Dream Is Yours

as Uncle Charlie

1948

Unfaithfully Yours

as Sweeney

1948

Contest Crazy

as Edgar

1948

Variety Time

as Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build ...

1948

Dig That Gold

as Edgar Kennedy

1948

Brother Knows Best

as Edgar Kennedy

1947

Heaven Only Knows

as Judd

1947

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

as Jake the Bartender

1947

Do or Diet

as Edgar

1946

I'll Build It Myself

as Edgar

1946

Motor Maniacs

as Edgar Kennedy

1946

Trouble or Nothing

as Edgar

1945

Captain Tugboat Annie

as Captain Bullwinkle

1945

The Big Beef

as Edgar Kennedy

1945

You Drive Me Crazy

as Edgar

1945

Anchors Aweigh

as Police Captain

1945

It's Your Move

as Edgar Kennedy

1945

What, No Cigarettes

as Edgar Kennedy

1944

Feather Your Nest

as Edgar

1944

The Great Alaskan Mystery

as Bosun Higgins

1944

It Happened Tomorrow

as Insp. Mulrooney

1944

Radio Rampage

as Edgar

1944

Prunes and Politics

as Edgar

1943

Crazy House

as Judge

1943

The Girl from Monterrey

as Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter

1943

Hitler's Madman

as Nepomuk - the Hermit

1943

Hot Foot

as Edgar

1943

Inferior Decorator

as Edgar

1943

Air Raid Wardens

as Joe Bledsoe

1943

The Falcon Strikes Back

as Smiley Dugan

1943

Hold Your Temper

as Edgar

1943

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

as Police Chief Murphy

1942

Duck Soup

as Edgar

1942

Hillbilly Blitzkrieg

as Sgt. Homer Gatling

1942

There's One Born Every Minute

as Mayor Moe Carson

1942

Cooks and Crooks

as Edgar

1942

In Old California

as Kegs McKeever

1942

Pardon My Stripes

as Warden Bingham

1942

Private Snuffy Smith

as Sgt. Ed Cooper

1942

Rough on Rents

as Edgar Kennedy

1941

A Quiet Fourth

as Edgar

1941

Gangs Of The City

as Biff

1941

I'll Fix It

as Edgar

1941

Westward Ho-Hum

as Edgar

1941

Blondie in Society

as Dr. Glenn

1941

An Apple in His Eye

as Edgar Kennedy

1940

Drafted in the Depot

as Edgar Kennedy

1940

Remedy for Riches

as George Browning

1940

Li'l Abner

as Cornelius Cornpone

1940

Sandy Gets Her Man

as Fire Chief Galvin

1940

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

as Sheriff Gregory

1940

A Trailer Tragedy

as Edgar Kennedy

1940

The Quarterback

as Pops

1940

Margie

as Chauncey

1940

Sunk by the Census

as Edgar

1940

Dr. Christian Meets the Women

as George Browning

1940

'Taint Legal

as Edgar

1940

Sandy Is a Lady

as Officer Rafferty

1940

Mutiny in the County

as Edgar Kennedy

1939

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

as Inspector Dailey

1939

Kennedy the Great

as Edgar Kennedy

1939

Laugh It Off

as Judge John J. McGuinnis

1939

Little Accident

as Paper Hanger

1939

Everything's on Ice

as Joe Barton

1939

Maid to Order

as Edgar

1939

It's a Wonderful World

as Lieutenant Miller

1939

Baby Daze

as Edgar Kennedy

1939

Clock Wise

as Edgar

1938

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

as Arthur Bailey

1938

A Clean Sweep

as Edgar

1938

Beaux and Errors

as Edgar Kennedy

1938

Hey! Hey! USA

as Bugs Leary

1938

Scandal Street

as Daniel Webster Smith

1938

The Black Doll

as Sheriff Renick

1938

Ears of Experience

as Edgar

1938

Hollywood Hotel

as Callaghan

1937

True Confession

as Darsey

1937

Edgar & Goliath

as Edgar

1937

Double Wedding

as Spike

1937

Tramp Trouble

as Edgar

1937

Super-Sleuth

as Police Lt. Garrison

1937

Dumb's the Word

as Edgar Kennedy

1937

A Star Is Born

as Pop Randall

1937

Bad Housekeeping

as Edgar

1937

When's Your Birthday?

as Mr. Basscombe

1937

The Other Fellow

as Four Roles

1936

Three Men on a Horse

as Harry, the Bartender

1936

Mad Holiday

as Donovan

1936

Vocalizing

as Edgar Kennedy

1936

Yours for the Asking

as Bicarbonate

1936

Dummy Ache

as Edgar

1936

San Francisco

as Sheriff

1936

Fatal Lady

as Rudolf Hochstetter

1936

Small Town Girl

as Captain Mack

1936

Robin Hood of El Dorado

as Sheriff Judd

1936

Will Power

as Edgar Kennedy

1936

Gasoloons

as Edgar Kennedy

1935

The Bride Comes Home

as Henry

1935

$1,000 a Minute

as Police Officer McCarthy

1935

Little Big Shot

as Onderdonk

1935

In Love at 40

as Edgar Kennedy

1935

Woman Wanted

as Sweeney

1935

Edgar Hamlet

as Edgar

1935

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

as Edgar Kennedy

1935

The Cowboy Millionaire

as Willy 'Persimmon' Bates

1935

Living on Velvet

as Counterman

1935

Rendezvous at Midnight

as Mahoney

1935

Brick-a-Brac

as Edgar

1934

The Silver Streak

as O'Brien

1934

Flirting with Danger

as Jimmie Pierson

1934

The Marines Are Coming

as Sgt. Buck Martin

1934

Poisoned Ivory

as Edgar Kennedy

1934

Kid Millions

as Herman Wilson

1934

Gridiron Flash

as Officer Thurston

1934

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

as Happy Moran

1934

A Blasted Event

as Edgar

1934

We're Rich Again

as Healy, Process Server

1934

Murder on the Blackboard

as Detective Donahue

1934

Money Means Nothing

as Herbert Green

1934

Wrong Direction

as Edgar, Movie Director

1934

Twentieth Century

as Oscar McGonigle

1934

Love on a Ladder

as Edgar

1934

Heat Lightning

as Herbert - the Husband

1934

All of Me

as Guard (uncredited)

1933

King for a Night

as Cop

1933

Duck Soup

as Street Vendor

1933

What Fur

as Edgar

1933

Tillie and Gus

as Judge

1933

Quiet Please!

as Edgar Kennedy

1933

Good Housewrecking

1933

Professional Sweetheart

as Kelsey

1933

Cross Fire

as Ed Wimpy

1933

Son of the Border

as Windy

1933

Diplomaniacs

as Chairman - Peace Conference

1933

A Merchant of Menace

as Edgar

1933

Scarlet River

as Sam Gilroy

1933

Art in the Raw

1932

Fish Feathers

as Edgar Kennedy

1932

The Penguin Pool Murder

as Officer Donovan

1932

Rockabye

as Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)

1932

Little Orphan Annie

as Daddy Warbucks

1932

Hold 'Em Jail

as Warden Elmer Jones

1932

Giggle Water

as Edgar

1932

Now's the Time

1932

Westward Passage

as Elmer

1932

He's a Honey

1932

Carnival Boat

as Baldy

1931

Bad Company

as Buffington-Doorman

1931

Quick Millions

as Cop (uncredited)

1931

Love Fever

as Thelma's Last Rescuer

1931

High Gear

as Cop

1931

Next Door Neighbors

as Howard J. Green

1931

Help Wanted, Female

1930

Ladies Last

as Man in Phone Booth

1930

Moonlight and Monkey Business

as Detective

1930

Looser Than Loose

as Night Club Patron

1930

Bigger and Better

as Uncle Ed Sutton

1930

Dollar Dizzy

as Quimby the Lawyer

1930

Doctor's Orders

as Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle

1930

Girl Shock

as Fiancee's Father

1930

Fifty Million Husbands

as Officer Kennedy

1930

All Teed Up

as Thelma's Father (uncredited)

1930

The Ghosts

as Kennedy

1930

When the Wind Blows

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

1930

The Big Kick

as Detective

1930

The Gas Station

as Detective

1930

The First Seven Years

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

1930

The Real McCoy

as Cicero the Cop

1930

Shivering Shakespeare

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

1930

The Head Guy

as Station Master Kennedy (uncredited)

1930

Thieves

1930

Night Owls

as Officer Kennedy

1929

Great Gobs!

as 2nd Sailor

1929

Angora Love

as Landlord

1929

Moan & Groan, Inc.

as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)

1929

Stepping Out

as Diner's Owner

1929

Bacon Grabbers

as Collis P. Kennedy

1929

Welcome Danger

as SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

1929

They Had to See Paris

as Ed Eggers (uncredited)

1929

Crazy Feet

as Policeman

1929

Hotter Than Hot

1929

Perfect Day

as Uncle Edgar

1929

Dad's Day

as Michael Kennedy

1929

Madame Q

as Judge Kennedy

1929

The Big Squawk

as Orchestra Leader

1929

Hurdy Gurdy

as Officer Ed Kennedy

1929

Unaccustomed as We Are

as Officer Kennedy

1929

Trent's Last Case

as Inspector Murch

1929

Why Is a Plumber?

1929

Off to Buffalo

1929

A Pair of Tights

as Marion's Boyfriend's Boss

1929

Going Ga-Ga

as Cop

1928

Chasing Husbands

1928

Feed 'em and Weep

1928

The Booster

1928

The Boy Friend

as The Cop

1928

Two Tars

as Motorist

1928

All Parts

1928

Is Everybody Happy?

1928

Should Married Men Go Home?

as Golfer (uncredited)

1928

Imagine My Embarrassment

1928

The Fight Pest

1928

Limousine Love

as The Husband, Mr Glenders

1928

The Finishing Touch

as Cop (as Ed Kennedy)

1928

The Family Group

as A Photographer

1928

Dumb Daddies

as The Cop

1928

Leave 'Em Laughing

as Cop

1927

The Chinese Parrot

as Maydorf

1927

The Wrong Mr. Wright

as Trayguard

1927

The Gay Old Bird

as Chauffeur

1927

Finger Prints

as O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy)

1926

Going Crooked

as Detective

1926

The Better 'Ole

as Corporal Austin

1926

Across the Pacific

as Cpl. Ryan

1926

My Old Dutch

as Bill Sproat

1926

Oh! What a Nurse!

as Eric Johnson

1925

The People vs. Nancy Preston

as Gloomy Gus

1925

The Golden Princess

as Gewilliker Hay

1925

The Trouble With Wives

as Detective (as Edward Kennedy)

1925

Paths to Paradise

as Detective (uncredited)

1924

All's Swell on the Ocean

1924

Wall Street Blues

as The Crook

1924

Racing for Life

as Tom Grady

1924

The Battling Fool

as Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)

1924

Fight and Win

1924

The Night Message

as Lem Beeman

1923

Something for Nothing

as Ptomaine Tommy

1923

The Wandering Two

1923

The Little Girl Next Door

as Hank Hall

1922

High and Dry

1921

The Guide

as An American Tourist

1921

Skirts

1921

Puppets of Fate

as Mike Reynolds

1920

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

1920

Four Times Foiled

1919

Hearts and Flowers

as Pete

1919

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

as German Prison Guard (uncredited)

1918

She Loved Him Plenty

1917

The Late Lamented

as Art Gallery Operator

1917

Whose Baby?

as The Detective

1917

The Blue Streak

1916

The Stolen Triumph

as Edwin Rowley, Jr.

1916

Bombs!

as Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader

1916

A Scoundrel's Toll

as Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent

1916

Madcap Ambrose

as A City Chap

1916

His Bitter Pill

as Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival

1915

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

as Edgar

1915

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

as Shell Game Operator

1915

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

as Suitor

1915

Mabel’s Wilful Way

as Fatty's Pal

1915

Wished on Mabel

as Cop

1915

His Luckless Love

as The Maid's Boyfriend

1915

That Little Band Of Gold

as Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)

1915

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

as Neighbor

1915

Fatty's New Role

as Handout-Giver (uncredited)

1915

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposit...

as 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited...

1915

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

as The cafe waiter (uncredited)

1915

The Great Vacuum Robbery

as 2nd Thief

1914

Tillie's Punctured Romance

as Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncred...

1914

Ambrose's First Falsehood

as Café Proprietor

1914

Getting Acquainted

as Policeman (uncredited)

1914

Leading Lizzie Astray

as The Slicker's Chauffeur

1914

The Noise of Bombs

as Police Chief

1914

An Incompetent Hero

as Fatty's Neighbor

1914

'Curses!' They Remarked

as Ethel's Former Boyfriend

1914

Gentlemen of Nerve

as Policeman

1914

Dough and Dynamite

as Striking Baker

1914

The Love Thief

as The Rival

1914

He Loved the Ladies

as The Wife's Brother

1914

The Rounders

as (uncredited)

1914

The Sky Pirate

as The Sky Pirate

1914

Love and Bullets

as The Trouble Mender

1914

Mabel's Busy Day

as Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited)

1914

The Knockout

as Cyclone Flynn (uncredited)

1914

Caught in a Cabaret

as Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)

1914

Twenty Minutes of Love

as Lover

1914

Mabel at the Wheel

as Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)

1914

A Bath House Beauty

as Jealous Boyfriend

1914

The Star Boarder

as Landlady's Husband (uncredited)

1914

Cruel, Cruel Love

as Butler

1914

His Favorite Pastime

as Tough Guy in Bar

1914

Tango Tangles

as Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)

1914

A Film Johnnie

as Director (uncredited)

1914

A Thief Catcher

as Crook (uncredited)

1914

Making a Living

as Wreck Bystander (uncredited)

1914

Little Billy's Triumph

1914

Rebecca's Wedding Day

as The Groom

1914

In the Clutches of the Gang

as Cop

1914

A Flirt's Mistake

as Rajah

1913

Zuzu, the Band Leader

as Caesar - Zuzu's Rival

1913

The Gusher

as Cop (uncredited)

1913

A Ride for a Bride

as Mustached Man

1913

Fatty Joins the Force

as Jealous Cop

1913

A Muddy Romance

as Water Policeman

1913

The Speed Kings

as Laughing Spectator

1913

A Quiet Little Wedding

as Wedding Guest

1913

The Bowling Match

as Bowling Alley Operator

1913

Mother's Boy

as Mug

1913

Mabel's Dramatic Career

as Audience Member / Cop in Movie

1913

Mabel's New Hero

as Cop

1913

The Riot

as Cop

1913

A Noise from the Deep

1913

Love and Rubbish

as 1st Cop

1913

Safe in Jail

as 1st Crook

1913

Rastus and the Game Cock

as Spectator

1913

Peeping Pete

as The Cop

1913

The Gangsters

as Henchman

1913

Their First Execution

1913

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

1913

Algy on the Force

as Cop

1913

Bangville Police

as 3rd Deputy

1913

The Rural Third Degree

as Cop

Crew

1930

Bigger and Better

as Director

1930

Fifty Million Husbands

as Director

1930

The golf player

as Director

1930

The golfer

as Director

1930

All Teed Up

as Director

1928

You're Darn Tootin'

as Director

1928

From Soup to Nuts

as Director

1925

The Marriage Circus

as Director

1924

Three Foolish Weeks

as Director

1922

Step Lively, Please

as Director