Edgar Kennedy
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Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890—November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the 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 possibly best known today for a small but memorable role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.
A former singer and boxer, Kennedy worked in hundreds of films beginning as a Keystone Kop in 1914. He would go on to work with the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Charley Chase, and the Our Gang series. Kennedy's burly frame originally suited him for villainous or threatening roles in silent pictures. By the 1920s Kennedy was working for producer Hal Roach, who kept the actor busy playing supporting roles in short comedies. Kennedy starred in one short, A Pair of Tights (1928), in which he plays a tightwad determined to spend as little as possible on a date. His antics with comedian Stuart Erwin are reminiscent of Roach's Laurel and Hardy comedies, produced concurrently. Roach also allowed Kennedy to direct, which resulted in about a dozen comedies.
Perhaps his most unusual roles were as a puppeteer in the detective mystery The Falcon Strikes Back (1943) and as a philosophical bartender inspired to create exotic cocktails in Harold Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947).
Kennedy died of throat cancer in 1948 and was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
In 2005, a book biography by Bill Cassara was published about Kennedy's life and career.
- Name At Birth:
- Edgar Livingston Kennedy
- Birth Date:
- April 26, 1890
- Birthplace:
- Monterey County, California, U.S.
- Death Date:
- November 09, 1948
- Place of Death:
- Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
- Years Active:
- 1915–1965
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