
Edgar Kennedy
Biography
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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.
Acting (227 movies)

Duck Soup
1933

It Happened Tomorrow
1944

Blondie in Society
1941

Double Wedding
1937

Cruel, Cruel Love
1914

Dough and Dynamite
1914

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947

King Kelly of the U.S.A.
1934

Li'l Abner
1940

My Dream Is Yours
1949

A Star Is Born
1937

Twentieth Century
1934

Caught in a Cabaret
1914

The Trouble With Wives
1925

In Old California
1942

Air Raid Wardens
1943

Hollywood Hotel
1938

The Falcon Strikes Back
1943

The Our Gang Story
1994

The Chinese Parrot
1927

It's a Wonderful World
1939

Whose Baby?
1917

The Family Group
1928

Imagine My Embarrassment
1928

Is Everybody Happy?
1928

The Booster
1928

Chasing Husbands
1928

Great Gobs!
1929

Night Owls
1930

Perfect Day
1929

Should Married Men Go Home?
1928

The Finishing Touch
1928

Leave 'Em Laughing
1928

Bacon Grabbers
1929

Two Tars
1928

Unaccustomed as We Are
1929

The Star Boarder
1914

Twenty Minutes of Love
1914

The Knockout
1914

Gentlemen of Nerve
1914

Getting Acquainted
1914

A Thief Catcher
1914

The Penguin Pool Murder
1932

Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936

Little Big Shot
1935

Son of the Border
1933

When Comedy Was King
1960

Small Town Girl
1936

Little Orphan Annie
1932

Fatty's Tintype Tangle
1915

Racing for Life
1924

Tillie and Gus
1933

The Cowboy Millionaire
1935

True Confession
1937

Flirting with Danger
1934

Three Men on a Horse
1936

Making a Living
1914

Fatty Joins the Force
1913

Mad Holiday
1936

The Girl from Monterrey
1943

Leading Lizzie Astray
1914

The Marines Are Coming
1934

The Golden Princess
1925

Super-Sleuth
1937

Money Means Nothing
1934

Thieves
1930

The Late Lamented
1917

A Merchant of Menace
1933

Hey! Hey! USA
1938

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943

Fatty’s Plucky Pup
1915

Will Power
1936

Dumb Daddies
1928

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938

Moan & Groan, Inc.
1929

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940

Living on Velvet
1935

Something for Nothing
1923

The Other Fellow
1937

Professional Sweetheart
1933

Remedy for Riches
1940

The Better 'Ole
1926

We're Rich Again
1934

The Little Girl Next Door
1923

The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944

Gridiron Flash
1934

When's Your Birthday?
1937

The Silver Streak
1934

When the Wind Blows
1930

Woman Wanted
1935

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939

There's One Born Every Minute
1942

The Bride Comes Home
1935

Limousine Love
1928

Private Snuffy Smith
1942

Anchors Aweigh
1945

The Gangsters
1913

The First Seven Years
1930

Peeping Pete
1913

A Muddy Romance
1913
Directing (11 movies)
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