Edgar Kennedy

🎂 Data nașterii: 1890-04-25 (Monterey, California, USA)

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.

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Edgar Kennedy

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Duck Soup

It Happened Tomorrow

Las fantasmas

Blondie in Society

Double Wedding

Cruel, Cruel Love

Charlot brutar

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

King Kelly of the U.S.A.

Li'l Abner

My Dream Is Yours

Twentieth Century

A Star Is Born

The Rural Third Degree

Charlot chelner

The Trouble With Wives

In Old California

Air Raid Wardens

Hollywood Hotel

The Falcon Strikes Back

The Our Gang Story

The Chinese Parrot

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

It's a Wonderful World

Whose Baby?

The Family Group

The Fight Pest

Imagine My Embarrassment

Is Everybody Happy?

Chasing Husbands

The Booster

All Parts

Off to Buffalo

Great Gobs!

Night Owls

The Love Thief

Should Married Men Go Home?

Perfect Day

The Finishing Touch

Leave 'Em Laughing

Bacon Grabbers

Two Tars

Unaccustomed as We Are

The Star Boarder

The Knockout

Twenty Minutes of Love

Gentlemen of Nerve

Charlot si Mabel la plimbare

A Thief Catcher

Giggle Water

The Penguin Pool Murder

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Little Big Shot

Son of the Border

When Comedy Was King

Small Town Girl

Little Orphan Annie

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Racing for Life

Tillie and Gus

The Cowboy Millionaire

True Confession

Flirting with Danger

Three Men on a Horse

Lupta pentru existenta

Fatty Joins the Force

Mad Holiday

The Girl from Monterrey

Leading Lizzie Astray

The Marines Are Coming

Art in the Raw

Good Housewrecking

The Golden Princess

Love and Bullets

The Sky Pirate

Super-Sleuth

Money Means Nothing

A Blasted Event