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George Kennedy actor
Born: 2/18/1925
Birthplace: New York City
This character actor began his career on stage and radio as a child and became a familiar face to American audiences in television and film during the 1960s. A featured actor in various short-lived television dramas and disaster movies such as Airport (1970) its various sequels, and the Naked Gun (1988, 1991, 1994) series with Leslie Nielson. George Kennedy is best-known for his 1988–91 stint as Carter McKay on the nighttime soap Dallas. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the movie Cool Hand Luke (1967).
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on George Kennedy from Infoplease:
- Cool Hand Luke - Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Dennis Hopper
- The Boston Strangler - Starring Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Tony Curtis, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - Starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach
- Airport - Starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy
- February 18 Birthdays: Toni Morrison - February 18 birthdays: Toni Morrison, Matt Dillon, Molly Ringwald, George Kennedy, Helen Gurley Brown, Sholem Aleichem, Louis Comfort Tiffany, John Travolta, Charles Michael Schwab
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