
Edgar Kennedy
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.
328 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 328

Duck Soup
1933

Anchors Aweigh
1945

A Star Is Born
1937

Twentieth Century
1934

San Francisco
1936

Hitler's Madman
1943

Small Town Girl
1936

It's a Wonderful World
1939

Tango Tangles
1914

It Happened Tomorrow
1944

Double Wedding
1937
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976

Unfaithfully Yours
1948

The Penguin Pool Murder
1932

Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914

Super-Sleuth
1937

Two Tars
1928

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947

In Old California
1942

Rockabye
1932

Gentlemen of Nerve
1914

Kid Millions
1934

Woman Wanted
1935

$1,000 a Minute
1935

Leave 'Em Laughing
1928

The Quarterback
1940

My Dream Is Yours
1949

A Thief Catcher
1914

Making a Living
1914

Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936

All of Me
1934

Cross Fire
1933

The Finishing Touch
1928

The Golden Age of Comedy
1957

Bad Company
1931

Night Owls
1930

There's One Born Every Minute
1942

Caught in a Cabaret
1914

Heat Lightning
1934

The Rounders
1914

Little Big Shot
1935

Should Married Men Go Home?
1928

Little Orphan Annie
1932

Hollywood Hotel
1938

When's Your Birthday?
1937

Perfect Day
1929

Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913

The Falcon Strikes Back
1943

The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944

Shivering Shakespeare
1930

Hurdy Gurdy
1929
Quiet Please!
1933

Yours for the Asking
1936

The Star Boarder
1914

Li'l Abner
1940

Crazy House
1943

Heaven Only Knows
1947

Dough and Dynamite
1914

Fatty Joins the Force
1913

Across the Pacific
1926

Dollar Dizzy
1930
Gasoloons
1936

Skirts
1921

True Confession
1937

Welcome Danger
1929

A Film Johnnie
1914

Dr. Christian Meets the Women
1940

Quick Millions
1931

Rendezvous at Midnight
1935

We're Rich Again
1934

Mabel at the Wheel
1914

Air Raid Wardens
1943

The Silver Streak
1934

A Muddy Romance
1913

Peeping Pete
1913

Living on Velvet
1935

Professional Sweetheart
1933

Mad Holiday
1936

The Gay Old Bird
1927

Scandal Street
1938

When the Wind Blows
1930

Crazy Feet
1929
Act Your Age
1939

Bacon Grabbers
1929

Angora Love
1929

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
Wrong Direction
1934
Gangs Of The City
1941

Blondie in Society
1941

Murder on the Blackboard
1934

Little Accident
1939

Westward Passage
1932

The Trouble With Wives
1925

Moan & Groan, Inc.
1929

Finger Prints
1927

Unaccustomed as We Are
1929

His Bitter Pill
1916

Oh! What a Nurse!
1926

Twenty Minutes of Love
1914

Fatal Lady
1936

Ambrose's First Falsehood
1914
A Trailer Tragedy
1940

Mabel's Busy Day
1914

Madcap Ambrose
1916

Carnival Boat
1932

Diplomaniacs
1933

The Bride Comes Home
1935

Cruel, Cruel Love
1914

Do or Diet
1947

Dummy Ache
1936

King Kelly of the U.S.A.
1934

Bangville Police
1913

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938

Sandy Gets Her Man
1940

Poisoned Ivory
1934

The Speed Kings
1913
A Bath House Beauty
1914

The Knockout
1914

Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919

All's Swell on the Ocean
1924

The Riot
1913

Fatty's Tintype Tangle
1915

Margie
1940

The Our Gang Story
1994
Brick-a-Brac
1935

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024

Three Men on a Horse
1936

Doctor's Orders
1930

Why Is a Plumber?
1929

Love and Rubbish
1913

Son of the Border
1933

King for a Night
1933

Scarlet River
1933

Getting Acquainted
1914

My Old Dutch
1926

Pardon My Stripes
1942

Remedy for Riches
1940
Mabel’s Awful Mistakes
1913

The Gusher
1913
I'll Build It Myself
1946

Gridiron Flash
1934
The Ghosts
1930

The Gangsters
1913

High Gear
1931
'Curses!' They Remarked
1914

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
1920

Flirting with Danger
1934

'Taint Legal
1940
The Night Message
1924
The Spot on the Rug
1932

The Girl from Monterrey
1943
Puppets of Fate
1921
Feather Your Nest
1944

The Wrong Mr. Wright
1927
The Rural Third Degree
1913
Drafted in the Depot
1940

They Had to See Paris
1929

The Cowboy Millionaire
1935
It's Your Move
1945

Fatty’s Reckless Fling
1915

Feed 'em and Weep
1928
Cooks and Crooks
1942

Private Snuffy Smith
1942

Wished on Mabel
1915

Dumb Daddies
1928

Bombs!
1916

Safe in Jail
1913
Ears of Experience
1938

The Big Kick
1930

You Drive Me Crazy
1945

A Flirt's Mistake
1914

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940

Captain Tugboat Annie
1945

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915

Hold 'Em Jail
1932
What, No Cigarettes
1945

The First Seven Years
1930

Variety Time
1948
Rastus and the Game Cock
1913
Laugh It Off
1939

The Chinese Parrot
1927

Limousine Love
1928

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
1915

Money Means Nothing
1934
Sock Me to Sleep
1935

The Marines Are Coming
1934

His Favorite Pastime
1914

The Golden Princess
1925

The Great Vacuum Robbery
1915

Hotter Than Hot
1929
Their First Execution
1913
Hold Your Temper
1943

What Fur
1933

The Boy Friend
1928

When Comedy Was King
1960

Whose Baby?
1917

Thieves
1930
Motor Maniacs
1946

Tillie and Gus
1933

Fifty Million Husbands
1930

The Family Group
1928

Prunes and Politics
1944

The Booster
1928

The Big Beef
1945

The Black Doll
1938

The Battling Fool
1924

Everything's on Ice
1939

An Apple in His Eye
1941
Going Ga-Ga
1929
Baby Daze
1939
In Love at 40
1935

In the Clutches of the Gang
1914

Hearts and Flowers
1919

The Real McCoy
1930

A Noise from the Deep
1913

Love Fever
1931
Kennedy the Great
1939

A Scoundrel's Toll
1916

Paths to Paradise
1925
Brother Knows Best
1948
Sunk by the Census
1940

Hey! Hey! USA
1938

A Pair of Tights
1929

The Better 'Ole
1926

A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
1935

Girl Shock
1930

Looser Than Loose
1930
Duck Soup
1942
The Bowling Match
1913

Something for Nothing
1923
A Quiet Fourth
1941
The Sky Pirate
1914

Racing for Life
1924

Chasing Husbands
1928

Fatty’s Plucky Pup
1915

The Head Guy
1930
His Luckless Love
1915

Trent's Last Case
1929

Sandy Is a Lady
1940
He Loved the Ladies
1914

Ladies Last
1930
Art in the Raw
1933
A Quiet Little Wedding
1913

Going Crooked
1926
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg
1942
Mutiny in the County
1940

The Other Fellow
1937

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
1915
Dumb's the Word
1937

Wedding Bills
1927

Wall Street Blues
1924
Love and Bullets
1914

Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
A Clean Sweep
1938
Madame Q
1929

Will Power
1936

That Little Band Of Gold
1915

The Bride Wore Crutches
1940
Love on a Ladder
1934
Beaux and Errors
1938
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
—
Never the Twins Shall Meet
1932

Next Door Neighbors
1931
Edgar & Goliath
1937
I'll Fix It
1941

The Late Lamented
1917
Radio Rampage
1944

Mabel’s Wilful Way
1915
He's a Honey
1932

The Little Girl Next Door
1923
Bigger and Better
1930
An Incompetent Hero
1914

The Noise of Bombs
1914
The Gas Station
1930
All Parts
1928
Rough on Rents
1942

Westward Ho-Hum
1941
Giggle Water
1932
Dig That Gold
1948

Mabel's New Hero
1913

All Teed Up
1930
The Love Thief
1914
Tramp Trouble
1937

Great Gobs!
1929

Clock Wise
1939

Little Billy's Triumph
1914
Good Housewrecking
1933

Stepping Out
1929
Moonlight and Monkey Business
1930
Edgar Hamlet
1935

Imagine My Embarrassment
1928
Zuzu, the Band Leader
1913
Vocalizing
1936

A Ride for a Bride
1913

Trouble or Nothing
1946
Maid to Order
1939

The Return of Jimmy Valentine
1936

The Stolen Triumph
1916

Fight and Win
1924
Now's the Time
1932
Dad's Day
1929

The Big Squawk
1929

She Loved Him Plenty
1918
The Guide
1921
Mad About Moonshine
—
High and Dry
1922
Mother's Boy
1913
Rebecca's Wedding Day
1914

The People vs. Nancy Preston
1925

The Blue Streak
1917
Off to Buffalo
1929
Contest Crazy
1948
Algy on the Force
1913

Fatty's New Role
1915
Bad Housekeeping
1937

The Wandering Two
1923
Fish Feathers
1932
Inferior Decorator
1943

A Merchant of Menace
1933
A Blasted Event
1934
Hot Foot
1943

Is Everybody Happy?
1928
Four Times Foiled
1920
The Fight Pest
1928
Help Wanted, Female
1931
Watch Your Neighbor
1918


