Edgar Kennedy

About Edgar Kennedy

Who is it?: Actor, Director, Soundtrack
Birth Day: April 26, 1890
Birth Place: Lake San Antonio, Monterey County, California, USA
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Birth Name: Edgar Livingstone Kennedy
Nick Names: King of the Slow Burn<br>Master of the Slow Burn

Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy, who was born on April 26, 1890, near Monterey, California, hit the road as a young man and traveled...
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As per our current Database, Edgar Kennedy has been died on 9 November, 1948 at Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

🎂 Edgar Kennedy - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Edgar Kennedy die, Edgar Kennedy was 58 years old.

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Occupation Actor
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born April 26, 1890 (Lake San Antonio, Monterey County, California, USA)
Birthday April 26
Town/City Lake San Antonio, Monterey County, California, USA
Nationality USA

🌙 Zodiac

Edgar Kennedy’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Edgar Kennedy was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.

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Edgar Kennedy, who was born on April 26, 1890, near Monterey, California, hit the road as a young man and traveled across the country, working in a succession of jobs. He became a professional boxer, claiming to have gone 14 rounds against The Manassas Mauler, Jack Dempsey.

In addition to his knowledge of the "Sweet Science", Kennedy possessed a good musical voice, and wound up singing in musical shows in the Midwest, his first taste of show business. During his cross-country peregrinations he wound up in Los Angeles, and found himself hired as an actor by comedy producer Mack Sennett.

At the Sennett Studios he was allegedly one of the original Keystone Kops, but soon graduated from bit parts to supporting roles in Keystone comedies, including Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) with Charles Chaplin.

Kennedy had good roles in other Chaplin movies, but when his contract expired in 1921 he went freelance, though he did occasionally return to Sennett.After leaving Sennett Kennedy established himself as a first-rate supporting comic, and made a career out of playing harassed businessmen, next-door neighbors, cops, etc.

By the late 1920s his craft was most prominently featured in comedies for Hal Roach, Sennett's arch-rival, where he flourished in support of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was with Roach that he developed his mastery of the "slow burn", a routine for which he became famous.

He often played a none-too-bright policeman brought to the boiling point by the absurdities of Laurel and Hardy. He also directed the two in From Soup to Nuts (1928) and You're Darn Tootin' (1928).RKO hired Kennedy to appear in a series of comedy shorts called "The Average Man," in which he played the head of a family.

The shorts had very tight shooting schedules, often as few as three days, but Kennedy was always a pro and delighted the audience by giving them his all. He made over 200 short subjects and appeared in over 100 feature films, still in demand right up to the day he died of cancer on November 9, 1948.

Edgar Kennedy WIFE, FAMILY, KIDS

  • Patricia Violet Allyn (21 August 1924 - 9 November 1948) ( his death) ( 2 children)

Edgar Kennedy Movies

  • Duck Soup (1933) as Lemonade Vendor
  • Air Raid Wardens (1943) as Joe Bledsoe
  • Unfaithfully Yours (1948) as Detective Sweeney
  • Penguin Pool Murder (1932) as Donovan

Important Facts about Edgar Kennedy

'The Slow Burn" - he would show great comic frustration by drawing the palm of his hand down his face before exploding.

Usually played a short-tempered man who often suffered at the hands of his family or whoever his on-screen partner to be

Towering height, bald head and gruff voice

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