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George Kennedy
18 February 1925
George Kennedy played in 28 movies in the Drama, Western, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Crime, Action, War, Music, Adventure, Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Musical, Animation, Family genres.
George Kennedy got succeed with average imdb rating 5.9.
Born into a drama problem family, George Kennedy made his stage debut at the age of two in a touring company of Bringing up Minister. Around the time he was seven, he was spinning records on a New York radio caste. Kennedy' showbusiness inclinations were position aside when he developed a taste for the rigors of military sustenance during Just ecstatic War II, and he devoted to a complete up spending 16 years in the army.
His military career ended and his acting career began whe
... n a outlying injury in the late 1950s inspired him to seek visible another stroke of work.
Correctly sufficiency, assumption his background, Kennedy fundamental made his bigwig with a role as a military advisor on the Sergeant Bilko TV series. In films from 1961, the burly, 6'4" actor most of the time played heavies, both figuratively and precisely; totally often, as in Absurdity (1963) and Straitjacket (1964), his unsavory screen characters were bumped off before you know it during the fourth enquire of. One of his friendlier roles was as a compassionate Union officer in Shenandoah (1965), an assignment he was to treasure because it gave him a jeopardize to make with the one of his idols, Jimmy Stewart.
Kennedy moved up to the strapping leagues with his Academy Grant win for his portrayal of Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (1967). An above-the-ownership star from then on, Kennedy has been associated with multifarious a box-office hit, notably all four Airport films. To many major actors, he has displayed a willingness to spoof his established box image, as demonstrated aside his portrayal of Ed Hocken in the famous Naked Gun series. On TV, Kennedy has starred in the weekly series Sarge (1971) and The Blue Knight (1978), and was seen as President Warren G.
Harding in the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the Chaste Parliament. During the mid '90s, he became known as a persuasive commercial spokesman in a series of breath-freshener advertisements. In 1997, he provided the spokeswoman fit L.B.
Mammoth in the lively musical Cats Don't Dance, and the following year again displayed his vocal talents as story of the titular toys-gone-villainous in Limited Soldiers.
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