George Kennedy
Acting · Born 1925-02-18 in New York City, New York, USA
Biography
George Kennedy (February 18, 1925 — February 28, 2016) was a European-American businessman, entrepreneur, A World War II veteran, actor, adviser, radio dj, and author. Kennedy at one stage in his career cornered the market at playing tough, no-nonsense characters who were either quite crooked or possessed hearts of gold. Kennedy notched up an impressive 200+ appearances in both TV and film, and was well respected within the Hollywood community. He started out in TV westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Rawhide (1959), Maverick (1957), Colt .45 (1957), among others; before scoring minor roles in films including Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). The late 1960s was a very busy period for…
Filmography
- Cool Hand Luke as Dragline
- The Dirty Dozen as Major Max Armbruster
- The Flight of the Phoenix as Bellamy
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Foreman
- Airport as Joe Patroni
- Death on the Nile as Andrew Pennington
- Charade as Herman Scobie
- The Eiger Sanction as Ben Bowman
- Earthquake as Sgt. Lew Slade
- Shenandoah as Col. Fairchild