
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.

Street Vendor
Duck Soup

Insp. Mulrooney
It Happened Tomorrow

Kennedy
Las fantasmas

Dr. Glenn
Blondie in Society

Spike
Double Wedding

Butler
Cruel, Cruel Love

Striking Baker
Dough and Dynamite

Jake the Bartender
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Happy Moran
King Kelly of the U.S.A.

Cornelius Cornpone
Li'l Abner

Uncle Charlie
My Dream Is Yours

Oscar McGonigle
Twentieth Century

Pop Randall
A Star Is Born

Cop
The Rural Third Degree

Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret

Detective (as Edward Kennedy)
The Trouble With Wives

Kegs McKeever
In Old California

Joe Bledsoe
Air Raid Wardens

Callaghan
Hollywood Hotel

Smiley Dugan
The Falcon Strikes Back

Officer (archive footage)
The Our Gang Story

Maydorf
The Chinese Parrot

Mabel’s Awful Mistakes

Lieutenant Miller
It's a Wonderful World

The Detective
Whose Baby?

A Photographer
The Family Group

The Fight Pest

Imagine My Embarrassment

Is Everybody Happy?

Chasing Husbands

The Booster

All Parts

Off to Buffalo

2nd Sailor
Great Gobs!

Officer Kennedy
Night Owls

The Rival
The Love Thief

Golfer (uncredited)
Should Married Men Go Home?

Uncle Edgar
Perfect Day

Cop (as Ed Kennedy)
The Finishing Touch

Cop
Leave 'Em Laughing

Collis P. Kennedy
Bacon Grabbers

Motorist
Two Tars

Officer Kennedy
Unaccustomed as We Are

Landlady's Husband (uncredited)
The Star Boarder

Cyclone Flynn (uncredited)
The Knockout

Lover
Twenty Minutes of Love

Policeman
Gentlemen of Nerve

Policeman (uncredited)
Getting Acquainted

Crook (uncredited)
A Thief Catcher

Edgar
Giggle Water

Officer Donovan
The Penguin Pool Murder

Sheriff Judd
Robin Hood of El Dorado

Onderdonk
Little Big Shot

Windy
Son of the Border

edited from 'A Pair of Tights' (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King

Captain Mack
Small Town Girl

Daddy Warbucks
Little Orphan Annie

Edgar
Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Tom Grady
Racing for Life

Judge
Tillie and Gus

Willy 'Persimmon' Bates
The Cowboy Millionaire

Darsey
True Confession

Jimmie Pierson
Flirting with Danger

Harry, the Bartender
Three Men on a Horse

Wreck Bystander (uncredited)
Making a Living

Jealous Cop
Fatty Joins the Force

Donovan
Mad Holiday

Doc Hogan, Fight Promoter
The Girl from Monterrey

The Slicker's Chauffeur
Leading Lizzie Astray

Sgt. Buck Martin
The Marines Are Coming

Art in the Raw

Good Housewrecking

Gewilliker Hay
The Golden Princess

The Trouble Mender
Love and Bullets

The Sky Pirate
The Sky Pirate

Police Lt. Garrison
Super-Sleuth

Herbert Green
Money Means Nothing

Edgar
A Blasted Event

Ladrones

Art Gallery Operator
The Late Lamented

Edgar
A Merchant of Menace

Cop
Algy on the Force

Bugs Leary
Hey! Hey! USA

Police Chief Murphy
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

Shell Game Operator
Fatty’s Plucky Pup

Edgar Kennedy
Will Power

The Cop
Dumb Daddies

Arthur Bailey
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
Moan & Groan, Inc.

Sheriff Gregory
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

Counterman
Living on Velvet

Ptomaine Tommy
Something for Nothing

Four Roles
The Other Fellow

Kelsey
Professional Sweetheart

He's a Honey

Edgar
Tramp Trouble

George Browning
Remedy for Riches

Corporal Austin
The Better 'Ole

Healy, Process Server
We're Rich Again

Now's the Time

Hank Hall
The Little Girl Next Door

Edgar Kennedy
Beaux and Errors

Bosun Higgins
The Great Alaskan Mystery

Edgar Kennedy
Dumb's the Word

Officer Thurston
Gridiron Flash

Mr. Basscombe
When's Your Birthday?

Edgar, Movie Director
Wrong Direction

O'Brien
The Silver Streak

Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
When the Wind Blows

Sweeney
Woman Wanted

Inspector Dailey
Charlie McCarthy, Detective

Mayor Moe Carson
There's One Born Every Minute

Henry
The Bride Comes Home

The Husband, Mr Glenders
Limousine Love

Sgt. Ed Cooper
Private Snuffy Smith

Police Captain
Anchors Aweigh

Henchman
The Gangsters

Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
The First Seven Years

Laughing Spectator
The Speed Kings

The Cop
Peeping Pete

Water Policeman
A Muddy Romance

A Noise from the Deep

1st Cop
Love and Rubbish

1st Crook
Safe in Jail

Spectator
Rastus and the Game Cock

Cop
The Riot

Cop
Mabel's New Hero

Audience Member / Cop in Movie
Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mug
Mother's Boy

Wedding Guest
A Quiet Little Wedding

Mustached Man
A Ride for a Bride

Cop
In the Clutches of the Gang

Tough Guy in Bar
His Favorite Pastime

Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Tango Tangles

The Groom
Rebecca's Wedding Day

Rajah
A Flirt's Mistake

Jealous Boyfriend
A Bath House Beauty

Sam Gilroy
Scarlet River

Dan O'Leary (as Ed Kennedy)
The Battling Fool

Trayguard
The Wrong Mr. Wright

2nd Thief
The Great Vacuum Robbery

Sheriff Renick
The Black Doll

Marion's Boyfriend's Boss
A Pair of Tights

Cop
Going Ga-Ga

Chairman - Peace Conference
Diplomaniacs

Inspector Murch
Trent's Last Case

Elmer
Westward Passage

Rudolf Hochstetter
Fatal Lady

Captain Bullwinkle
Captain Tugboat Annie

German Prison Guard (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Cicero the Cop
The Real McCoy

Their First Execution

Quimby the Lawyer
Dollar Dizzy

3rd Deputy
Bangville Police

Detective
Moonlight and Monkey Business

Police Chief
The Noise of Bombs

Café Proprietor
Ambrose's First Falsehood

The Cop
The Boy Friend

Bicarbonate
Yours for the Asking

Diamond Dan - Jim's Rival
His Bitter Pill

A City Chap
Madcap Ambrose

Pete
Hearts and Flowers

Director (uncredited)
A Film Johnnie

(uncredited)
The Rounders

Tough Hot Dog Customer (uncredited)
Mabel's Busy Day

Spectator in Grandstand (uncredited)
Mabel at the Wheel

Restaurant Owner / Banks' Butler (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance

Handout-Giver (uncredited)
Fatty's New Role

Neighbor
Fatty’s Reckless Fling

1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Fatty's Pal
Mabel’s Wilful Way

Cop
Wished on Mabel

Diner / Man in Audience (uncredited)
That Little Band Of Gold

Thelma's Last Rescuer
Love Fever

Detective
The Big Kick

Station Master Kennedy (uncredited)
The Head Guy

Herbert - the Husband
Heat Lightning

Edgar Kennedy
Baby Daze

Mahoney
Rendezvous at Midnight

Ed Eggers (uncredited)
They Had to See Paris

Officer Ed Kennedy
Hurdy Gurdy

Cop
King for a Night

George Browning
Dr. Christian Meets the Women

Edgar Kennedy
Quiet Please!

Edgar Kennedy
Gasoloons

Kennedy the Cop (uncredited)
Shivering Shakespeare

Mary's Father / Gertie's Uncle
Doctor's Orders

Uncle Ed Sutton
Bigger and Better

Man in Phone Booth
Ladies Last

Night Club Patron
Looser Than Loose

Joe Barton
Everything's on Ice

The Crook
Wall Street Blues

Feed 'em and Weep

Edgar Kennedy
Mutiny in the County

Biff
Gangs Of The City

Herman Wilson
Kid Millions

Orchestra Leader
The Big Squawk

Diner's Owner
Stepping Out

Suitor
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

Little Billy's Triumph

Landlord
Angora Love

Ed Wimpy
Cross Fire

Eric Johnson
Oh! What a Nurse!

Warden Elmer Jones
Hold 'Em Jail

Cop (uncredited)
The Gusher

Bill Sproat
My Old Dutch

Edgar Kennedy
Rough on Rents

Police Officer McCarthy
$1,000 a Minute

Pops
The Quarterback

Chauncey
Margie

Officer Rafferty
Sandy Is a Lady

Edgar Kennedy
It's Your Move

Sgt. Homer Gatling
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg

Sweeney
Unfaithfully Yours

Baldy
Carnival Boat

Thelma's Father (uncredited)
All Teed Up

Judge Kennedy
Madame Q

Michael Kennedy
Dad's Day

Cop (uncredited)
Quick Millions

Cop
High Gear

Officer Kennedy
Fifty Million Husbands

Officer Kennedy (archive footage)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy

Edgar Kennedy
An Apple in His Eye

Howard J. Green
Next Door Neighbors

Edgar Kennedy
Poisoned Ivory

Edgar Kennedy
Drafted in the Depot

Edgar
Edgar Hamlet

High and Dry

Edgar Kennedy
In Love at 40

Judge John J. McGuinnis
Laugh It Off

Detective Donahue
Murder on the Blackboard

Detective (uncredited)
Paths to Paradise

Edgar Kennedy (footage from 'I'll Build It Myself') (archive footage)
Variety Time

Hotter Than Hot

An American Tourist
The Guide

The Wife's Brother
He Loved the Ladies

Guard (uncredited)
All of Me

Mike Reynolds
Puppets of Fate

Edgar
Hold Your Temper

Edgar
I'll Fix It

Edgar
Westward Ho-Hum

Judd
Heaven Only Knows

Nepomuk - the Hermit
Hitler's Madman

Sheriff
San Francisco

Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Rockabye

Ethel's Former Boyfriend
'Curses!' They Remarked

Edgar
'Taint Legal

Fiancee's Father
Girl Shock

Edgar Kennedy
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

Edgar
Dummy Ache

Edgar
Love on a Ladder

Edgar
Ears of Experience

Edgar
Clock Wise

Edgar
Sunk by the Census

Edgar
Prunes and Politics

Edgar
A Quiet Fourth

Daniel Webster Smith
Scandal Street

Policeman
Crazy Feet

Edgar Kennedy
Vocalizing

Edgar Kennedy
Fish Feathers

Edgar
Brick-a-Brac

Edgar Kennedy
A Trailer Tragedy

Edgar
Bad Housekeeping

Edgar
A Clean Sweep

The Maid's Boyfriend
His Luckless Love

Peter X. Bush - Streetcar Superintendent
A Scoundrel's Toll

Edgar
Cooks and Crooks

Edgar
Duck Soup

Help Wanted, Female

SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Welcome Danger

Four Times Foiled

Edgar
Hot Foot

Judge
Crazy House

Buffington-Doorman
Bad Company

Detective
Going Crooked

Edgar
Feather Your Nest

Edgar
Radio Rampage

Cpl. Ryan
Across the Pacific

Fire Chief Galvin
Sandy Gets Her Man

Warden Bingham
Pardon My Stripes

O.K. McDuff (as Ed Kennedy)
Finger Prints

archive footage
The Golden Age of Comedy

Edgar
Edgar & Goliath

Edgar
Maid to Order

Edgar Kennedy
Kennedy the Great

Edgar Kennedy
What, No Cigarettes

Why Is a Plumber?

Edgar
You Drive Me Crazy

Edgar Kennedy
The Big Beef

The cafe waiter (uncredited)
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

Detective
La estación de gasolina

Edgar Kennedy
Motor Maniacs

Edgar
Trouble or Nothing

Edgar
I'll Build It Myself

Tony Peanutty - Italian Ward Leader
Bombs!

Paper Hanger
Little Accident

Bowling Alley Operator
The Bowling Match

Edgar
Do or Diet

Fatty's Neighbor
An Incompetent Hero

Caesar - Zuzu's Rival
Zuzu, the Band Leader

Edgar Kennedy
Brother Knows Best

Edgar Kennedy
Dig That Gold

Edgar
Contest Crazy

She Loved Him Plenty

Edgar
What Fur

The Wandering Two

Edgar
Inferior Decorator

Edwin Rowley, Jr.
The Stolen Triumph

All's Swell on the Ocean

Lem Beeman
The Night Message

Chauffeur
The Gay Old Bird

(archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

Gloomy Gus
The People vs. Nancy Preston

The Blue Streak

Skirts

Fight and Win
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
317
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-04-25
Place of Birth
Monterey, California, USA
Also Known As
E. Livingston Kennedy