Edgar Kennedy
Acting
🎂 1890-04-25
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.
Cast credits(313)
Bicarbonate
1936
Onderdonk
1935
Sgt. Buck Martin
1934
Sheriff Judd
1936
Audience Member / Cop in Movie
1913
Officer Thurston
1934
Daddy Warbucks
1932
Pop Randall
1937
Street Vendor
1933
Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
1948
Cpl. Ryan
1926
Donovan
1936
Insp. Mulrooney
1944
Police Captain
1945
Sheriff Renick
1938
Callaghan
1938
Judge John J. McGuinnis
1939
Jake the Bartender
1947
edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
1960
Cop (uncredited)
1931
Edgar
1942
Officer Donovan
1932
Kegs McKeever
1942
Mr. Basscombe
1937
Eric Johnson
1926
Mayor Moe Carson
1942
Harry, the Bartender
1936
Smiley Dugan
1943
Paper Hanger
1939
Uncle Charlie
1949
Judge
1943
George Browning
1940
Spike
1937
Warden Elmer Jones
1932
Edgar
1947
Edgar Kennedy
1945
Dr. Glenn
1941
Biff
1941
Rudolf Hochstetter
1936
Healy, Process Server
1934
Judd
1947
Inspector Murch
1929
Ed Wimpy
1933
Gewilliker Hay
1925
Sheriff
1936
Chauncey
1940
Lieutenant Miller
1939
Bill Sproat
1926
Corporal Austin
1926
Elmer
1932
Cop
1933
Kennedy
1930
O'Brien
1934
Chauffeur
1927
Kelsey
1933
Baldy
1932
Darsey
1937
Joe Barton
1939
Herbert - the Husband
1934
Judge
1933
Cop
1929
Pops
1940
Captain Mack
1936
Howard J. Green
1931
Happy Moran
1934
Laughing Spectator
1913
Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)
1932
Wedding Guest
1913
Buffington-Doorman
1931
Detective Donahue
1934
O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy)
1927
Henry
1935
Herman Wilson
1934
Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)
1924
Cornelius Cornpone
1940
Willy 'Persimmon' Bates
1935
Inspector Dailey
1939
Officer (archive footage)
1994
Joe Bledsoe
1943
Wreck Bystander (uncredited)
1914
Police Lt. Garrison
1937
German Prison Guard (uncredited)
1919
Cop
1913
Bosun Higgins
1944
The Crook
1924
Edgar
1937
1913
Arthur Bailey
1938
Sweeney
1948
Cop (uncredited)
1913
Tough Guy in Bar
1914
Sgt. Ed Cooper
1942
Guard (uncredited)
1934
The Detective
1917
Sheriff Gregory
1940
1920
Police Chief Murphy
1943
2024
Four Roles
1937
Edgar
1937
Nepomuk - the Hermit
1943
Water Policeman
1913
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
1930
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
1930
1st Crook
1913
Thelma's Last Rescuer
1931
Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
1914
Detective (as Edward Kennedy)
1925
Tom Grady
1924
Quimby the Lawyer
1930
Edgar
1940
The Groom
1914
1928
Daniel Webster Smith
1938
Sweeney
1935
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
1930
Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)
1914
1924
Mahoney
1935
Policeman
1914
Edgar Kennedy
1939
Night Club Patron
1930
Sam Gilroy
1933
1931
Striking Baker
1914
Bugs Leary
1938
Policeman (uncredited)
1914
Lover
1914
The Husband, Mr Glenders
1928
Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
1929
Officer Kennedy (archive footage)
1968
The Cop
1913
Oscar McGonigle
1934
Edgar
1939
Cop
1915
Officer Kennedy
1929
1st Cop
1913
Landlady's Husband (uncredited)
1914
A Photographer
1928
Detective (uncredited)
1925
Ed Eggers (uncredited)
1929
(uncredited)
1914
Jealous Cop
1913
Chairman - Peace Conference
1933
Police Officer McCarthy
1935
Uncle Edgar
1929
Officer Kennedy
1930
Trayguard
1927
The Sky Pirate
1914
Jimmie Pierson
1934
Edgar Kennedy
1935
SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1929
Cop
1914
Landlord
1929
Cop
1913
George Browning
1940
Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)
1914
Fiancee's Father
1930
1929
Maydorf
1927
Pete
1919
Detective
1930
Butler
1914
Cop
1928
Officer Kennedy
1930
1933
1929
The cafe waiter (uncredited)
1915
Neighbor
1915
Motorist
1928
Uncle Ed Sutton
1930
Golfer (uncredited)
1928
Cyclone Flynn (uncredited)
1914
Henchman
1913
Herbert Green
1934
Captain Bullwinkle
1945
Edgar Kennedy
1940
Detective
1926
Edgar
1932
Edgar
1937
Crook (uncredited)
1914
Detective
1930
Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
1914
1913
Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
1943
Edgar Kennedy
1940
archive footage
1957
Handout-Giver (uncredited)
1915
Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)
1915
Station Master Kennedy (uncredited)
1930
Edgar
1943
Suitor
1915
Edgar Kennedy
1939
Cop
1931
Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle
1930
1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
1915
A City Chap
1916
Fatty's Pal
1915
Director (uncredited)
1914
Caesar - Zuzu's Rival
1913
Collis P. Kennedy
1929
Cop (as Ed Kennedy)
1928
Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited)
1914
Warden Bingham
1942
Fatty's Neighbor
1914
Police Chief
1914
Edgar
1944
Mustached Man
1913
Edgar Kennedy
1936
Lem Beeman
1924
Mike Reynolds
1921
Hank Hall
1923
1918
Detective
1930
Marion's Boyfriend's Boss
1929
Edgar Kennedy
1945
Edgar
1941
Spectator
1913
Edgar, Movie Director
1934
Mug
1913
1914
Edgar
1942
Art Gallery Operator
1917
Edgar Kennedy
1933
Edwin Rowley, Jr.
1916
Jealous Boyfriend
1914
The Trouble Mender
1914
Edgar
1938
The Slicker's Chauffeur
1914
Edgar
1948
Sgt. Homer Gatling
1942
3rd Deputy
1913
1932
1928
Edgar Kennedy
1936
Edgar Kennedy
1935
Edgar
1944
Edgar
1915
Rajah
1914
Edgar
1938
2nd Thief
1915
Edgar
1946
Edgar Kennedy
1948
Bowling Alley Operator
1913
Edgar
1941
Edgar
1945
Edgar
1944
Man in Phone Booth
1930
1930
Edgar
1935
Edgar
1933
Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival
1916
The Cop
1928
Windy
1933
Edgar
1934
An American Tourist
1921
Shell Game Operator
1915
Edgar Kennedy
1934
1928
Edgar Kennedy
1932
Café Proprietor
1914
1922
Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader
1916
Edgar
1935
1913
Edgar
1943
1928
Edgar
1934
Edgar Kennedy
1945
Edgar
1939
Edgar Kennedy
1948
Edgar
1946
1932
Fire Chief Galvin
1940
Officer Rafferty
1940
Edgar Kennedy
1946
Cop
1913
The Cop
1928
Edgar
1933
Edgar
1936
Michael Kennedy
1929
1920
Policeman
1929
Edgar Kennedy
1942
Edgar
1940
Edgar Kennedy
1941
1923
The Wife's Brother
1914
Ethel's Former Boyfriend
1914
Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent
1916
The Maid's Boyfriend
1915
Diner's Owner
1929
Edgar Kennedy
1937
The Rival
1914
1928
Cicero the Cop
1930
1929
Cop
1913
Edgar
1943
1928
Orchestra Leader
1929
Officer Ed Kennedy
1929
1933
Counterman
1935
Edgar Kennedy
1938
1928
Edgar Kennedy
1936
Ptomaine Tommy
1923
Edgar
1941
Thelma's Father
1930
2nd Sailor
1929
Edgar Kennedy
1940
Judge Kennedy
1929
