Tom Kennedy

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

141

Movies

249

Born: July 14, 1885 – October 6, 1965
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tom Kennedy (July 15, 1885 – October 6, 1965) was an American actor known for his roles in Hollywood comedies from the silent days, with such producers as Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, mainly supporting lead comedians such as the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Mabel Normand, Shemp Howard, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges. Kennedy also played dramatic roles as a supporting actor. For over 50 years, from 1915 to 1965, he appeared in over 320 films and television series, often uncredited. His first film was a short black and white comedy, His Luckless Love. Kennedy was in all nine Torchy Blane films as Gahagan, the poetry-spouting cop whose running line was, "What a day! What a day!" He is often erroneously listed in film sources as the brother of slow-burning comedian Edgar Kennedy. Though the two men were not related, they were apparently good friends, with Tom appearing in many of Edgar's domestic two-reel comedy shorts. Tom Kennedy was also paired with Stooge Shemp Howard for several shorts for Columbia Pictures such as Society Mugs, as well as appearing with the Three Stooges in the films Loose Loot and Spooks!. He was also paired with El Brendel for four shorts, such as Phoney Cronies in 1942. His television appearances included episodes of Perry Mason, Maverick, My Favorite Martian, and Gunsmoke. Tom Kennedy continued making films right up until his death, his last film being the western The Bounty Killer.

Works

249 films

Some Like It Hot

19598.1

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

19637.0

Lighthouse Love

1932

42nd Street

19336.9

Magic Town

19476.7

Where the Pest Begins

19456.5

Remember the Night

19407.3

Blondie Johnson

19335.9

The Paleface

19486.1

The Bounty Killer

19656.0

The Cop

19286.7

The Princess and the Pirate

19446.9

Dixie

19435.0

Millionaire Playboy

19404.5

The Kid from Brooklyn

19466.3

Petticoat Larceny

19437.0

Let's Go Navy!

19518.0

Huddle

19327.0

Society Mugs

19467.0

Radio Rampage

194410.0

Wife Savers

19287.0

Pack Up Your Troubles

19326.8

She Done Him Wrong

19335.9

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

19998.3

Her Torpedoed Love

19175.0

Wise Girl

19377.1

Breakdowns of 1938

19385.8

If I Had a Million

19326.5

The Fall Guy

19306.3

Penthouse

19336.9

Silver Valley

19279.0

Senorita

19278.0

Skirts

19218.0

Happy Days

19296.3

Monkey Business

19317.0

The Pretender

19475.8

Triple Trouble

19507.0

Phoney Cronies

19427.0

The Country Doctor

19366.5

Fiddling Around

19388.0

Stage Door Canteen

19436.3

And the Angels Sing

19447.3

Broadway

19426.4

Jiggers, My Wife

19468.0

Slave Ship

19375.1

So's Your Uncle

19436.0

Free Rent

19367.0

Havana Rose

19517.0

Man of the Forest

19336.3

Love Over Night

19287.0

Go Chase Yourself

19385.7

Serenade

19218.0

Motor Maniacs

19467.0

Hollywood Boulevard

19364.5

The Mysterious Rider

19278.0

Sir Lumberjack

19268.0

The Burning Cross

19477.0

Home Work

202610.0

Smart Blonde

19376.4

The Man Who Walked Alone

19455.9

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

19396.8

The Long Shot

19396.0

Home Work

19429.0

Pretty Dolly

19428.0

Riding High

19506.1

The Judge Steps Out

19476.8

Here Comes Elmer

194310.0

Spooks!

19536.5

Voice of the Whistler

19455.8

Cross Fire

19336.5

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

19396.8

Night After Night

19326.3

She Couldn't Take It

19355.3

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

19487.5

Young as You Feel

19319.0

Swing It, Sailor!

19387.5

Suits to Nuts

1933

True to Life

19438.0

Cracked Shots

19349.0

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

20066.0

Old Man Rhythm

19357.0

Behind The Headlines

19376.6

Loose Loot

19537.0

The Bride Comes Home

19355.1

The Island of Intrigue

19198.0

Fly Away Baby

19376.3

Pardon My Stripes

19426.5

Blonde Alibi

19464.8

The Mighty McGurk

19476.7

Poppy

19367.0

An Angel from Texas

19405.3

Just Speeding

19368.0

Torchy Gets Her Man

19385.9

Curtain Call

19407.3

The Dancing Millionaire

1934

Society Lawyer

19395.4

Whose Baby?

1917

Cutie on Duty

194310.0

Horse Heir

1935

Blondes at Work

19386.3

Sporting Blood

19404.2

Hollywood Party

19345.7

Big News

19294.5

Pop Always Pays

19406.7

Lawyer Man

19326.1

Flowing Gold

19406.7

Angels with Broken Wings

19415.3

None But the Brave

192810.0

Iron Man

19315.7

Glad Rag Doll

19299.0

The Scarf

19515.7

Forty Naughty Girls

19375.6

The Town Went Wild

19447.0

The Adventurous Blonde

19375.3

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

19377.2

Unlucky Strike

1934

Torchy Runs for Mayor

19395.9

Thieves Fall Out

19416.0

How Comedies Are Born

1931

Quiet, Please

19396.2

Marry the Girl

19376.5

Sock Me to Sleep

19359.0

Fish Feathers

19329.0

The Mutineers

19497.0

These Glamour Girls

19395.9

Skyscraper Souls

19325.5

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

19425.4

Mantrap

19266.2

Public Pigeon No. 1

19576.3

The Gang Buster

19316.2

The Big Game

19366.6

Take It Big

19449.0

Danger on the Air

19386.4

Square Dance Jubilee

19495.0

Fraidy Cat

195110.0

See America Thirst

19307.0

Making the Headlines

19388.0

Day of Reckoning

19335.1

Trouble Preferred

19486.0

The Hat Box Mystery

19474.5

The Shannons of Broadway

19298.0

Invasion, U.S.A.

19523.4

The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City

19299.0

Butch Minds the Baby

19428.0

The Officer and the Lady

19418.0

The Better 'Ole

19265.7

Crime Ring

19385.8

The Crooked Circle

19325.2

Wives Never Know

19369.0

She Had to Eat

19375.6

That Night

1917

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

19195.7

Varsity Show

19376.8

Walk Like a Dragon

19606.3

Behind the Front

19266.2

The Flaming Hour

19227.0

Halfway to Hollywood

19388.0

Caught

19317.5

The Great Swindle

19418.0

Mexican Spitfire Out West

19405.0

Torchy Blane in Panama

19385.8

Full o' Pep

19229.0

Hook a Crook

195510.0

Gobs of Trouble

19359.0

Blondie's Blessed Event

19427.0

Alias The Deacon

19279.0

Grandma's Buoys

1936

Living on Love

19376.1

The Poor Simp

19207.0

The Egg

19226.6

His Bitter Pill

19165.1

The Covered Trailer

19397.0

Taxi, Mister

19434.2

Jinx Money

19485.6

Dixie Dugan

19436.5

Sailors on Leave

19418.0

Flying High

19315.8

Crashing Hollywood

19386.0

The Big Shot

19376.5

So's Your Antenna

19467.0

Double Trouble

19155.7

Born to the West

19264.8

Man Alive

19455.6

Hip Zip Hooray

19335.0

Her First Kiss

19196.0

Dangerous Years

19476.2

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

19414.6

Stage Frights

19359.0

Married Before Breakfast

19377.0

Ham and Eggs at the Front

19277.0

The Devil Is Driving

19325.3

He Couldn't Say No

19386.5

Calling All Curtains

193710.0

The Flirt

19227.0

Tillie's Punctured Romance

19286.5

Ladies' Day

19435.8

Devil's Cargo

19485.9

Mickey

19186.5

Gum Shoes

19359.0

The Speeder

1922

The Day the Bookies Wept

19397.5

Alibi Bye Bye

19353.7

Down to Their Last Yacht

19346.5

Marked Money

192810.0

Man of the Forest

192610.0

Girls! Girls! Girls!

19447.0

Armored Car

19375.6

Strictly Dynamite

19346.5

The Late Lamented

1917

Campus Rhythm

19435.7

Kismet

19208.3

Thunder in the Pines

19485.2

The Boudoir Butler

19323.0

Oh, My Nerves

19356.3

Hold 'Em Yale

19286.7

We're in the Navy Now

19266.3

A Schoolhouse Scandal

1919

Sunless Sunday

1921

New News

193710.0

Our Leading Citizen

19229.0

Sweet Spirits of the Nighter

194110.0

The Best Bad Man

19259.0

The Girl in the Case

19446.6

The Case of the Baby-Sitter

19476.5

Thirst

19176.0

Hit Parade of 1943

19435.7

Wedtime Stories

19439.0

The Awful Sleuth

195110.0

Bury the Hatchet

19378.0

Two Crooks

1917

Midnight Blunders

19365.0

It Pays to Advertise

19315.6

Moonlight and Cactus

19445.5

Fireman, Save My Child

19278.0

Loving Lies

19249.0

Strictly Fresh Yeggs

1934

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

1915

Gold Fever

19526.5

The Promoter

1932

The Yankee Señor

192610.0

The Pullman Bride

1917

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

19458.0

As Man Desires

19254.5

Raised and Called

1935

Cupid's Day Off

191910.0

In the Devildog House

19348.0

If You Believe It, It's So

19228.0

Man-I-Cured

19418.0

Odor in the Court

19343.5