George Kennedy
Gender: Male
Born: 18th February 1925 (currently 87 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Dallas, The Blue Knight, Sarge, Dobe and a Company of Heroes, Backstairs at the White House, Santo Bugito, The Blue Knight
Movies: Airport, Bandolero!, Bolero, Charade, Cool Hand Luke, Earthquake, Lonely are the Brave, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, Brain Dead, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Death on the Nile, The Eiger Sanction, ...tick...tick...tick..., Lost Horizon, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Airport 1975, The Concorde...Airport '79, Airport '77, Small Soldiers, Dennis the Menace Strikes Again, Cats Don't Dance, Fukkatsu no hi, Savage Dawn, The Delta Force, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Sons of Katie Elder, Shenandoah, The Flight of the Phoenix, Cahill U.S. Marshal, The Dirty Dozen, Creepshow 2, Brass Target, Don't Come Knocking, Death Ship, Dirty Dingus Magee, Fools' Parade, Men in White, The 'Human' Factor, Just Before Dawn, Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story, Three Bad Men, Truce, Sands of Oblivion, In Harm's Way, The Ballad of Josie, Chattanooga Choo Choo, The Man Who Came Back, Dallas: J.R. Returns, Nightmare at Noon, Mirage, Hurry Sundown, Modern Romance, The Double McGuffin, Monster Makers, The Boston Strangler, Strait-Jacket, Gaily, Gaily, Ministry of Vengeance, Another Happy Day, Steel, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, Born to Race, Demonwarp, The Terror Within, The Gunfighters, Wacko, Uninvited, Good Cops, Bad Cops, Another Happy Day, Six Days in Paradise, Zigzag
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (born February 18, 1925) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (for which he won an Academy Award), airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s (The only actor to star in all four movies) and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.
Kennedy was born in New York City, into a show business family. His father, George Harris Kennedy, a musician and orchestra leader, died when Kennedy was four years old. He was raised by his mother, Helen A. (née Kieselbach), a ballet dancer. He made his stage debut at the age of two, later becoming a radio performer. Kennedy put aside show business during World War II and served in the United States Army for 16 years, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. He was involved with the opening of the first Army Information Office, which provided technical assistance to films and TV shows. After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry.
Kennedy became a
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