George Kennedy
George Kennedy was born in New York City, New York, United States on February 18th, 1925 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 91, George Kennedy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions.
In Cool Hand Luke (1967), he performed "Dragline" opposite Paul Newman, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe.
He received his second Golden Globe Award for his role as Joe Patroni in Airport (1970). Charade, Strait-Jacket, McHale's Navy, Shenandoah, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, Airport 1975, Earthquake and The Eiger Sanction are among the notable films in which he appeared. Kennedy was the first actor to appear in all four films in the Airport series, having reprised the role of Joe Patroni three times.
He also appeared in Police Captain Ed Hocken's Naked Gun series of comedy films and corrupt oil tycoon Carter McKay on the original Dallas television series.
Early life, education, and military service is the focus.
Kennedy was born in New York City on February 18, 1925, into a show business family. George Harris Kennedy, a guitarist and orchestra conductor who died when Kennedy was four years old, died when he died. Helen A. Huffman, his mother, raised him. (née Kieselbach), a ballet dancer. His maternal grandfather was a German immigrant; his other ancestry was Irish and English.
Kennedy made his stage debut in a touring company called Bringing Up Father at age two, and by seven, he was a New York City radio DJ.
Kennedy graduated from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York, in 1943.
During World War II, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army during World War II. He served 16 years as a captain for the first time. Kennedy served in the infantry under George S. Patton and was awarded two Bronze Stars for his service. After the war, he re-enlisted but was suspended in the late 1950s due to a back injury.
Personal life
Kennedy was married four times, to three women. Dorothy Gillooly (1926–2012), who had served in the Women's Army Corps in the 1940s, married Dorothy Gillooly (1926–2012). They had just one son, Kevin Kennedy, before being separated in the 1950s; Dorothy returned to Buffalo, New York, and raised their son there. In 1959, Kennedy married Norma Wurman, also known as Revel Wurman (1929–2007). Both the children, Christopher and Karianna, were born in the United States. In 1971, Kennedy and Norma married for the first time and divorced in 1978 for the second time. Kennedy married Joan McCarthy (née Castagna), the niece of John Castagna and former wife of William James McCarthy in the same year. They remained married until her death in September 2015. Shaunna Kennedy, the couple's youngest child, had drug use later in life. Taylor, Kennedy, and Joan adopted her daughter in 1998, after Shaunna was declared inability to raise her daughter Taylor.
In a Turner Classic Movies mini-tribute to Stewart, Kennedy was a good friend of James Stewart and gave the voiceover. Kennedy was an aviator who loved flying and owned a Cessna 210 and Beechcraft Bonanza. Following his time with the Far East Network during WWII and later with Proof of the Man and Virus, Kennedy maintained a lifelong fascination with Japan and the region's history.
At the time of his death, Kennedy lived in Eagle, Idaho. He died on the morning of February 28, 2016, of a heart ailment at an assisted living facility in Middleton, Idaho, ten days after his 91st birthday. He had a history of heart disease.
Career
His first film appearance on the television show The Phil Silvers Show, where he served as a technical advisor, was a military policeman, which Kennedy later characterized as "a good training ground."
In 1961, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Comes, his film career began. He appeared in several Hollywood films, including as a sadistic jail guard in the Cary Grant suspense film Charade (1963), and as a ruthless criminal in a Joan Crawford thriller, Strait-Jacket (1964).
In 1965, Kennedy was busier than ever. In the mystery Mirage, he appeared with Gregory Peck and John Wayne in the plane crash film In Harm's Way, as well as Wayne and Dean Martin in the western The Sons of Katie Elder.
In a 1966 episode "Return to Lawrence" of the ABC Western series The Legend of Jesse James, he appeared as "Blodt."
In Cool Hand Luke (1967), a chain-gang prisoner who first resents the new prisoner played by Paul Newman, the actor comes to revere the vivacious Luke, who later on comes to revere the rebellious Luke.
Kennedy was followed by films like The Dirty Dozen, Bandolero!, and The Boston Strangler. He appeared in the Academy Award-winning disaster film Airport, in which he played one of the main characters, airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni. He reprised his role in Airport 1975, Airport 1977, and The Concorde '79, the only cast member to appear in each film of the series.
The Airport franchise spawned the Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker satire Airplane, in which the filmmakers hoped to portray Kennedy as the bumbling plane dispatcher. Jerry Zucker said in 2010 that Lloyd Bridges was a good thing because Kennedy "couldn't kill off his Airport cash-cow."
In two films, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and The Eiger Sanction, along with ensemble casts in the disaster film Earthquake and the Agatha Christie mystery Death on the Nile, Kennedy co-starred with Clint Eastwood.
He appeared in two television series: Sarge, which aired on NBC from 1971 to 1972, and The Blue Knight, a CBS series that aired from 1975 to 1976, and The Blue Knight, a CBS series that lasted for 24 episodes from 1975 to 1976.
In two Japanese films, Junya Satya Sat's Proof of the Man in 1977 and Kinji Fukasaku's Virus in 1980, Kennedy appeared in both and Kinji Fukasaku's Virus in 1980. Both films were produced by Haruki Kadokawa and featured extensive international casts and shooting locations. Despite the fact that Proof of the Man was only introduced theatrically in Japan and Virus suffered in the United States during a financially poor truncated cut, Kennedy was excited about his participation.
In 1984, Kennedy starred opposite Bo Derek in the box-office bombing Bolero. Savage Dawn, The Delta Force, and Creepshow 2, among other 1980s films, before playing a leading supporting role in the comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, he was also involved in Savage Dawn, The Delta Force, and Creepshow 2. In 1988, Ed Hocken was playing Captain Ed Hocken opposite Leslie Nielsen's comedic cop Frank Drebin. Kennedy appeared in two sequels in which he co-starred.
Kennedy appeared in the Korean film Mayumi directed by Shin Sang-ok who was best known for being kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il with actor and wife Choi Eun-hee. Mayumi was Shin's attempt to resurrect the South Korean film industry and was the country's nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but it was not accepted as a nominee. Despite starring Kennedy, there was no wide publicity outside of South Korea and it was ultimately a domestic box office loss.
On television, Kennedy starred as Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas (1978–1991), spanning 1980 to 1991. He promoted "Breathasure" tablets in radio and television commercials from the mid- to late 1990s. He reprised his role as McKay in the television series Dallas: J.R. Returns and War of the Ewings Around this time, he starred in the television film Dallas: J.R. Returns and Dallas: The Ewings. Kennedy appeared on television show Match Game as a celebrity in the late 1970s.
He appeared in Brick Bazooka in the film Small Soldiers in 1998. He appeared in several independent films before returning to television in The Young and the Restless in 2003, as Albert Miller, the biological father to legendary character Victor Newman. He appeared in the film Don't Come Knocking in 2005 as the director of an ill-fated western.
In Ed, Mark Wahlberg's dying grandfather, Jim Bennett's Ed, Kennedy made his last film appearance in The Gambler (2014). During the film's first scene, wherein Ed (moments before his death) delegateth the patriarch's duties to a heartbroken Jim.
Writing career
Kennedy wrote three books. Murder On Location, a murder mystery set on a film set in 1983, by Peter Murder. Murder on High was released in 1984 as a second book in the series Murder on High. Trust Me, his autobiography, was released in 2011.