Edgar Kennedy
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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.
Known for
Credits
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
as Police Captain
Duck Soup (1933)
as Street Vendor
Perfect Day (1929)
as Uncle Edgar
A Star Is Born (1937)
as Pop Randall
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
as Lieutenant Miller
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
as Sweeney
Westward Passage (1932)
as Elmer
San Francisco (1936)
as Sheriff
Angora Love (1929)
as Landlord
Tramp Trouble (1937)
as Edgar
Professional Sweetheart (1933)
as Kelsey
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
as Collis P. Kennedy
Clock Wise (1939)
as Edgar
Small Town Girl (1936)
as Captain Mack
Radio Rampage (1944)
as Edgar
In Old California (1942)
as Kegs McKeever
Two Tars (1928)
as Motorist
Super-Sleuth (1937)
as Police Lt. Garrison
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
as Insp. Mulrooney
Dummy Ache (1936)
as Edgar
Air Raid Wardens (1943)
as Joe Bledsoe
Ladies Last (1930)
as Man in Phone Booth
Wedding Bills (1927)
as Detective
All Parts (1928)
Actor
Great Gobs! (1929)
as 2nd Sailor
Skirts (1921)
Actor
Twentieth Century (1934)
as Oscar McGonigle
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
as Uncle Charlie
Double Wedding (1937)
as Spike
Hitler's Madman (1943)
as Nepomuk - the Hermit
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942)
as Sgt. Homer Gatling
Motor Maniacs (1946)
as Edgar Kennedy
What Fur (1933)
as Edgar
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Kid Millions (1934)
as Herman Wilson
Chasing Husbands (1928)
Actor
Rockabye (1932)
as Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Limousine Love (1928)
as The Husband, Mr Glenders
Poisoned Ivory (1934)
as Edgar Kennedy
Caught in a Cabaret (1914)
as Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
as Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)
The Guide (1921)
as An American Tourist
The Chinese Parrot (1927)
as Maydorf
Madame Q (1929)
as Judge Kennedy
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
as Jake the Bartender
Peeping Pete (1913)
as The Cop
The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981)
as Keystone Kop (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
as Sheriff Judd
The Rounders (1914)
as (uncredited)
Crazy House (1943)
as Judge
Captain Tugboat Annie (1945)
as Captain Bullwinkle
Making a Living (1914)
as Wreck Bystander (uncredited)
Li'l Abner (1940)
as Cornelius Cornpone
Thieves (1930)
Actor
Edgar Hamlet (1935)
as Edgar
Do or Diet (1947)
as Edgar
Heaven Only Knows (1947)
as Judd
Finger Prints (1927)
as O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy)
Quick Millions (1931)
as Cop (uncredited)
Good Housewrecking (1933)
Actor
Dough and Dynamite (1914)
as Striking Baker
When Comedy Was King (1960)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gangs Of The City (1941)
as Biff
Diplomaniacs (1933)
as Chairman - Peace Conference
We're Rich Again (1934)
as Healy, Process Server
A Film Johnnie (1914)
as Director (uncredited)
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day (1915)
as The cafe waiter (uncredited)
True Confession (1937)
as Darsey
The Knockout (1914)
as Cyclone Flynn (uncredited)
Woman Wanted (1935)
as Sweeney
Fish Feathers (1932)
as Edgar Kennedy
Gasoloons (1936)
as Edgar Kennedy
A Thief Catcher (1914)
as Crook (uncredited)
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)
as Arthur Bailey
King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934)
as Happy Moran
Twenty Minutes of Love (1914)
as Lover
Fatal Lady (1936)
as Rudolf Hochstetter
Pardon My Stripes (1942)
as Warden Bingham
Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
as Detective Donahue
Vocalizing (1936)
as Edgar Kennedy
The Silver Streak (1934)
as O'Brien
Giggle Water (1932)
as Edgar
Hollywood Hotel (1938)
as Callaghan
Fatty’s Plucky Pup (1915)
as Shell Game Operator
The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
as Officer Donovan
The Black Doll (1938)
as Sheriff Renick
Scarlet River (1933)
as Sam Gilroy
The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
as archive footage
Mabel at the Wheel (1914)
as Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)
The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)
as Callahan
The Finishing Touch (1928)
as Cop (as Ed Kennedy)
Scandal Street (1938)
as Daniel Webster Smith
Bangville Police (1913)
as 3rd Deputy
Unaccustomed as We Are (1929)
as Officer Kennedy
Love and Rubbish (1913)
as 1st Cop
The Blue Streak (1917)
Actor
The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925)
as Gloomy Gus
Duck Soup (1942)
as Edgar
Across the Pacific (1926)
as Cpl. Ryan
The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
as Smiley Dugan
The Big Beef (1945)
as Edgar Kennedy
Welcome Danger (1929)
as SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
A Flirt's Mistake (1914)
as Rajah
Night Owls (1930)
as Officer Kennedy
Blondie in Society (1941)
as Dr. Glenn
Flirting with Danger (1934)
as Jimmie Pierson
Hot Foot (1943)
as Edgar
The Sky Pirate (1914)
as The Sky Pirate
Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
as Golfer (uncredited)
Yours for the Asking (1936)
as Bicarbonate
The Gas Station (1930)
as Detective
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919)
as German Prison Guard (uncredited)
Three Men on a Horse (1936)
as Harry, the Bartender
Tillie and Gus (1933)
as Judge
Cruel, Cruel Love (1914)
as Butler
The Spot on the Rug (1932)
as Jake
Fight and Win (1924)
Actor
Tango Tangles (1914)
as Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
as Police Chief Murphy
Whose Baby? (1917)
as The Detective
Leave 'Em Laughing (1928)
as Cop
The Boy Friend (1928)
as The Cop
Love and Bullets (1914)
as The Trouble Mender
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Onderdonk
Mad Holiday (1936)
as Donovan
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
as Mayor Moe Carson
Prunes and Politics (1944)
as Edgar
Rough on Rents (1942)
as Edgar Kennedy
King for a Night (1933)
as Cop
Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
as Inspector Dailey
Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
as Bugs Leary
A Quiet Little Wedding (1913)
as Wedding Guest
Dad's Day (1929)
as Michael Kennedy
The Golden Princess (1925)
as Gewilliker Hay
The Cowboy Millionaire (1935)
as Willy 'Persimmon' Bates
Sock Me to Sleep (1935)
as Edgar
Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)
as Sheriff Gregory
Getting Acquainted (1914)
as Policeman (uncredited)
Their First Execution (1913)
Actor
Bad Company (1931)
as Buffington-Doorman
The Noise of Bombs (1914)
as Police Chief
Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
as Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited)
Gridiron Flash (1934)
as Officer Thurston
Act Your Age (1939)
as Edgar
His Favorite Pastime (1914)
as Tough Guy in Bar
Heat Lightning (1934)
as Herbert
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
as Henry
All of Me (1934)
as Guard (uncredited)
A Bath House Beauty (1914)
as Jealous Boyfriend
Trent's Last Case (1929)
as Inspector Murch
Maid to Order (1939)
as Edgar
I'll Fix It (1941)
as Edgar
The Gay Old Bird (1927)
as Chauffeur
The Quarterback (1940)
as Pops
His Bitter Pill (1916)
as Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival
Son of the Border (1933)
as Windy
A Muddy Romance (1913)
as Water Policeman
Westward Ho-Hum (1941)
as Edgar
Living on Velvet (1935)
as Counterman
The Stolen Triumph (1916)
as Edwin Rowley, Jr.
Feather Your Nest (1944)
as Edgar
Quiet Please! (1933)
as Edgar Kennedy
An Incompetent Hero (1914)
as Fatty's Neighbor
Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
as Edgar
Help Wanted, Female (1931)
Actor
The Best of Laurel and Hardy (1968)
as Officer Kennedy (archive footage)
Rendezvous at Midnight (1935)
as Mahoney
Moan & Groan, Inc. (1929)
as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
A Pair of Tights (1929)
as Marion's Boyfriend's Boss
Moonlight and Monkey Business (1930)
as Detective
Hotter Than Hot (1929)
Actor
The Rural Third Degree (1913)
as Cop
The Fight Pest (1928)
Actor
Laugh It Off (1939)
as Judge John J. McGuinnis
Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932)
as Mr. Carp
Now's the Time (1932)
Actor
Variety Time (1948)
as Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
Little Accident (1939)
as Paper Hanger
That Little Band Of Gold (1915)
as Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)
They Had to See Paris (1929)
as Ed Eggers (uncredited)
When the Wind Blows (1930)
as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
as Bosun Higgins
Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)
as Audience Member / Cop in Movie
Margie (1940)
as Chauncey
The Family Group (1928)
as A Photographer
Love on a Ladder (1934)
as Edgar
Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
as The Slicker's Chauffeur
Fatty Joins the Force (1913)
as Jealous Cop
The Head Guy (1930)
as Station Master Kennedy (uncredited)
The Our Gang Story (1994)
as Officer (archive footage)
Something for Nothing (1923)
as Ptomaine Tommy
$1,000 a Minute (1935)
as Police Officer McCarthy
When's Your Birthday? (1937)
as Mr. Basscombe
Gentlemen of Nerve (1914)
as Policeman
Watch Your Neighbor (1918)
as An Innocent Bystander
Sandy Is a Lady (1940)
as Officer Rafferty
The Better 'Ole (1926)
as Corporal Austin
Remedy for Riches (1940)
as George Browning
Paths to Paradise (1925)
as Detective (uncredited)
Mabel’s Wilful Way (1915)
as Fatty's Pal
The Star Boarder (1914)
as Landlady's Husband (uncredited)
The Big Kick (1930)
as Detective
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (—)
as Edgar
Rastus and the Game Cock (1913)
as Spectator
High Gear (1931)
as Cop
The Real McCoy (1930)
as Cicero the Cop
Mother's Boy (1913)
as Mug
Going Ga-Ga (1929)
as Cop
Everything's on Ice (1939)
as Joe Barton
The Night Message (1924)
as Lem Beeman
Cross Fire (1933)
as Ed Wimpy
Mad About Moonshine (—)
as Edgar
Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
as Warden Elmer Jones
Zuzu, the Band Leader (1913)
as Caesar - Zuzu's Rival
The Speed Kings (1913)
as Laughing Spectator
High and Dry (1922)
Actor
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two (2024)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
as 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
Girl Shock (1930)
as Fiancee's Father
The Bride Wore Crutches (1940)
as Police Captain McGuire
The Girl from Monterrey (1943)
as Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
Looser Than Loose (1930)
as Night Club Patron
Money Means Nothing (1934)
as Herbert Green
Carnival Boat (1932)
as Baldy
The Gusher (1913)
as Cop (uncredited)
Wished on Mabel (1915)
as Cop
His Luckless Love (1915)
as The Maid's Boyfriend
Brick-a-Brac (1935)
as Edgar
The Wandering Two (1923)
Actor
Baby Daze (1939)
as Edgar Kennedy
Next Door Neighbors (1931)
as Howard J. Green
Hurdy Gurdy (1929)
as Officer Ed Kennedy
'Curses!' They Remarked (1914)
as Ethel's Former Boyfriend
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl (1935)
as Edgar Kennedy
Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940)
as George Browning
I'll Build It Myself (1946)
as Edgar
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (1915)
as Suitor
All Teed Up (1930)
as Thelma's Father (uncredited)
Safe in Jail (1913)
as 1st Crook
Dumb's the Word (1937)
as Edgar Kennedy
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
Actor
Algy on the Force (1913)
as Cop
Going Crooked (1926)
as Detective
Hearts and Flowers (1919)
as Pete
Private Snuffy Smith (1942)
as Sgt. Ed Cooper
Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)
as Fire Chief Galvin
Puppets of Fate (1921)
as Mike Reynolds
An Apple in His Eye (1941)
as Edgar Kennedy
The Battling Fool (1924)
as Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)
Little Orphan Annie (1932)
as Daddy Warbucks
Feed 'em and Weep (1928)
Actor
It's Your Move (1945)
as Edgar Kennedy
Love Fever (1931)
as Thelma's Last Rescuer
The Ghosts (1930)
as Kennedy
The Marines Are Coming (1934)
as Sgt. Buck Martin
Shivering Shakespeare (1930)
as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
Doctor's Orders (1930)
as Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle
Crazy Feet (1929)
as Policeman
A Merchant of Menace (1933)
as Edgar
Art in the Raw (1933)
Actor
A Blasted Event (1934)
as Edgar
The Gangsters (1913)
as Henchman
The Trouble With Wives (1925)
as Detective (as Edward Kennedy)
Stepping Out (1929)
as Diner's Owner
A Noise from the Deep (1913)
Actor
The Other Fellow (1937)
as Four Roles
Four Times Foiled (1920)
Actor
Mabel's New Hero (1913)
as Cop
The Booster (1928)
Actor
All's Swell on the Ocean (1924)
Actor
Dollar Dizzy (1930)
as Quimby the Lawyer
The Great Vacuum Robbery (1915)
as 2nd Thief
What, No Cigarettes (1945)
as Edgar Kennedy
The First Seven Years (1930)
as Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
He Loved the Ladies (1914)
as The Wife's Brother
Madcap Ambrose (1916)
as A City Chap
Fatty's New Role (1915)
as Handout-Giver (uncredited)
The Little Girl Next Door (1923)
as Hank Hall
Edgar & Goliath (1937)
as Edgar
The Late Lamented (1917)
as Art Gallery Operator
Why Is a Plumber? (1929)
Actor
Racing for Life (1924)
as Tom Grady
Ears of Experience (1938)
as Edgar
Bombs! (1916)
as Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader
Fatty’s Reckless Fling (1915)
as Neighbor
Wall Street Blues (1924)
as The Crook
Imagine My Embarrassment (1928)
Actor
'Taint Legal (1940)
as Edgar
She Loved Him Plenty (1918)
Actor
The Big Squawk (1929)
as Orchestra Leader
Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914)
as Café Proprietor
In the Clutches of the Gang (1914)
as Cop
The Riot (1913)
as Cop
The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927)
as Trayguard
Off to Buffalo (1929)
Actor
The Bowling Match (1913)
as Bowling Alley Operator
A Ride for a Bride (1913)
as Mustached Man
Bigger and Better (1930)
as Uncle Ed Sutton
Dumb Daddies (1928)
as The Cop
Is Everybody Happy? (1928)
Actor
In Love at 40 (1935)
as Edgar Kennedy
Fifty Million Husbands (1930)
as Officer Kennedy
My Old Dutch (1926)
as Bill Sproat
Cooks and Crooks (1942)
as Edgar
Will Power (1936)
as Edgar Kennedy
A Scoundrel's Toll (1916)
as Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent
Hold Your Temper (1943)
as Edgar
You Drive Me Crazy (1945)
as Edgar
Oh! What a Nurse! (1926)
as Eric Johnson
Beaux and Errors (1938)
as Edgar Kennedy
The Love Thief (1914)
as The Rival
Mutiny in the County (1940)
as Edgar Kennedy
Wrong Direction (1934)
as Edgar, Movie Director
Inferior Decorator (1943)
as Edgar
Brother Knows Best (1948)
as Edgar Kennedy
Dig That Gold (1948)
as Edgar Kennedy
A Quiet Fourth (1941)
as Edgar
Little Billy's Triumph (1914)
Actor
A Trailer Tragedy (1940)
as Edgar Kennedy
Bad Housekeeping (1937)
as Edgar
A Clean Sweep (1938)
as Edgar
Trouble or Nothing (1946)
as Edgar
Rebecca's Wedding Day (1914)
as The Groom
He's a Honey (1932)
Actor
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes (1913)
Actor
Drafted in the Depot (1940)
as Edgar Kennedy
Contest Crazy (1948)
as Edgar
Kennedy the Great (1939)
as Edgar Kennedy
Sunk by the Census (1940)
as Edgar