Tom Kennedy
Known for: Acting
Born: July 14, 1885
Died: October 6, 1965
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
249 movies · 19 TV shows, newest first
6.0
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006
8.3
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
6.0
The Bounty Killer
1965
7.0
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
6.2
My Favorite Martian
1963
6.3
Walk Like a Dragon
1960
7.5
Bonanza
1959
8.1
Some Like It Hot
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
1958
6.0
The Texan
1958
7.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
7.0
Maverick
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
1957
5.1
Sugarfoot
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
6.3
Public Pigeon No. 1
19578.0
Conflict
1956
6.2
Hey, Jeannie!
1956
10.0
Hook a Crook
1955
6.2
Cheyenne
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
6.1
Topper
1953
6.4
Spooks!
1953
7.0
Loose Loot
1953
3.4
Invasion, U.S.A.
1952
7.2
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
7.8
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
6.5
Gold Fever
1952
10.0
Fraidy Cat
1951
7.0
Havana Rose
1951
4.0
Boston Blackie
1951
8.0
Let's Go Navy!
1951
10.0
The Awful Sleuth
1951
5.7
The Scarf
1951
7.0
Triple Trouble
1950
6.1
Riding High
1950
5.0
Square Dance Jubilee
1949
7.0
The Mutineers
1949
6.0
Trouble Preferred
1948
6.1
The Paleface
1948
5.2
Thunder in the Pines
1948
7.5
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948
5.6
Jinx Money
1948
5.9
Devil's Cargo
1948
6.8
The Judge Steps Out
1947
6.8
Dangerous Years
1947
6.7
Magic Town
1947
7.0
The Burning Cross
1947
5.8
The Pretender
1947
6.5
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
1947
4.5
The Hat Box Mystery
1947
6.7
The Mighty McGurk
1947
7.0
So's Your Antenna
1946
7.0
Society Mugs
19467.0
Motor Maniacs
1946
8.0
Jiggers, My Wife
1946
6.3
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
4.8
Blonde Alibi
1946
5.6
Man Alive
1945
5.8
Voice of the Whistler
1945
6.5
Where the Pest Begins
1945
8.0
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1945
5.9
The Man Who Walked Alone
1945
7.0
The Town Went Wild
1944
6.9
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
5.5
Moonlight and Cactus
1944
9.0
Take It Big
1944
7.0
Girls! Girls! Girls!
1944
7.3
And the Angels Sing
1944
6.6
The Girl in the Case
194410.0
Radio Rampage
1944
8.0
True to Life
19439.0
Wedtime Stories
1943
5.7
Campus Rhythm
1943
10.0
Here Comes Elmer
1943
10.0
Cutie on Duty
1943
6.0
So's Your Uncle
1943
7.0
Petticoat Larceny
1943
6.3
Stage Door Canteen
1943
5.0
Dixie
1943
4.2
Taxi, Mister
1943
5.8
Ladies' Day
1943
5.7
Hit Parade of 1943
1943
6.5
Dixie Dugan
1943
8.0
Pretty Dolly
1942
5.4
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
19427.0
Phoney Cronies
1942
6.4
Broadway
1942
7.0
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
8.0
Butch Minds the Baby
1942
6.5
Pardon My Stripes
1942
9.0
Home Work
1942
10.0
Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
1941
4.6
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941
8.0
The Officer and the Lady
1941
8.0
Sailors on Leave
1941
8.0
Man-I-Cured
1941
5.3
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
6.0
Thieves Fall Out
1941
8.0
The Great Swindle
1941
5.0
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
6.7
Flowing Gold
1940
4.2
Sporting Blood
1940
6.7
Pop Always Pays
1940
5.3
An Angel from Texas
1940
7.3
Curtain Call
1940
4.5
Millionaire Playboy
1940
7.3
Remember the Night
1940
7.0
The Covered Trailer
1939
7.5
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939
5.9
These Glamour Girls
1939
6.8
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939
6.2
Quiet, Please
1939
5.9
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939
5.4
Society Lawyer
1939
6.8
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939
6.0
The Long Shot
1939
5.8
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
5.9
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938
5.8
Crime Ring
19388.0
Halfway to Hollywood
1938
6.4
Danger on the Air
1938
5.8
Torchy Blane in Panama
1938
5.7
Go Chase Yourself
1938
8.0
Making the Headlines
1938
6.5
He Couldn't Say No
1938
6.3
Blondes at Work
1938
7.5
Swing It, Sailor!
19388.0
Fiddling Around
1938
6.0
Crashing Hollywood
1938
7.1
Wise Girl
1937
5.3
The Adventurous Blonde
1937
6.1
Living on Love
193710.0
Calling All Curtains
1937
5.6
Forty Naughty Girls
1937
6.8
Varsity Show
19378.0
Bury the Hatchet
1937
6.5
The Big Shot
1937
6.5
Marry the Girl
1937
5.6
She Had to Eat
1937
6.3
Fly Away Baby
1937
7.0
Married Before Breakfast
1937
5.1
Slave Ship
1937
7.2
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937
5.6
Armored Car
1937
6.6
Behind The Headlines
193710.0
New News
1937
6.4
Smart Blonde
1937
7.0
Free Rent
1936NR
Grandma's Buoys
1936
5.0
Midnight Blunders
1936
6.6
The Big Game
1936
9.0
Wives Never Know
1936
4.5
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
7.0
Poppy
1936
6.5
The Country Doctor
19368.0
Just Speeding
1936
5.1
The Bride Comes Home
1935
6.3
Oh, My Nerves
1935
5.3
She Couldn't Take It
1935
7.0
Old Man Rhythm
19359.0
Gobs of Trouble
1935
3.7
Alibi Bye Bye
19359.0
Stage Frights
19359.0
Sock Me to Sleep
1935NR
Raised and Called
1935
9.0
Gum Shoes
1935NR
Horse Heir
1935NR
The Dancing Millionaire
1934
NR
Unlucky Strike
1934
6.5
Down to Their Last Yacht
19343.5
Odor in the Court
1934
5.6
Hollywood Party
1934
6.5
Strictly Dynamite
19349.0
Cracked Shots
1934NR
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
1934
8.0
In the Devildog House
1934
NR
Suits to Nuts
1933
5.1
Day of Reckoning
1933
6.9
Penthouse
1933
6.3
Man of the Forest
1933
6.5
Cross Fire
19335.0
Hip Zip Hooray
1933
6.9
42nd Street
1933
5.9
Blondie Johnson
1933
5.9
She Done Him Wrong
1933
6.1
Lawyer Man
19329.0
Fish Feathers
1932
5.3
The Devil Is Driving
1932
6.5
If I Had a Million
1932
6.3
Night After Night
1932
5.2
The Crooked Circle
1932
6.8
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
5.5
Skyscraper Souls
19323.0
The Boudoir Butler
1932
7.0
Huddle
1932NR
The Promoter
1932
NR
Lighthouse Love
1932
5.8
Flying High
1931
6.9
Monkey Business
1931
7.5
Caught
1931
9.0
Young as You Feel
1931
5.7
Iron Man
1931
5.6
It Pays to Advertise
1931
6.1
The Gang Buster
1931NR
How Comedies Are Born
1931
7.0
See America Thirst
1930
6.3
The Fall Guy
1930
8.0
The Shannons of Broadway
1929
6.3
Happy Days
1929
4.5
Big News
1929
9.0
Glad Rag Doll
1929
9.0
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
1929
7.0
Love Over Night
192810.0
Marked Money
1928
6.7
The Cop
1928
10.0
None But the Brave
1928
6.7
Hold 'Em Yale
1928
6.5
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1928
7.0
Wife Savers
1928
7.0
Ham and Eggs at the Front
1927
9.0
Silver Valley
1927
8.0
Fireman, Save My Child
1927
9.0
Alias The Deacon
1927
8.0
Senorita
1927
8.0
The Mysterious Rider
1927
10.0
Man of the Forest
1926
6.3
We're in the Navy Now
1926
5.7
The Better 'Ole
1926
6.2
Mantrap
1926
4.8
Born to the West
19268.0
Sir Lumberjack
1926
6.2
Behind the Front
1926
10.0
The Yankee Señor
1926
9.0
The Best Bad Man
1925
4.5
As Man Desires
1925
9.0
Loving Lies
1924
7.0
The Flirt
1922
7.0
The Flaming Hour
1922
NR
The Speeder
1922
6.6
The Egg
1922
8.0
If You Believe It, It's So
1922
9.0
Our Leading Citizen
19229.0
Full o' Pep
1922
8.0
Serenade
1921
NR
Sunless Sunday
1921
8.0
Skirts
1921
8.3
Kismet
1920
7.0
The Poor Simp
1920NR
A Schoolhouse Scandal
19196.0
Her First Kiss
1919
8.0
The Island of Intrigue
1919
5.7
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
191910.0
Cupid's Day Off
1919
6.5
Mickey
1918
NR
That Night
1917
NR
The Late Lamented
1917NR
Two Crooks
1917
6.0
Thirst
1917
NR
Whose Baby?
1917
5.0
Her Torpedoed Love
1917
NR
The Pullman Bride
1917
5.1
His Bitter Pill
1916
NR
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
1915
5.7
Double Trouble
191510.0
Home Work
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