Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an American comedic character actor who appeared in at least 500 films during the silent and sound eras.
13 Facts About Edgar Kennedy
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Edgar Kennedy attended San Rafael High School before taking up boxing.
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Edgar Kennedy was a light-heavyweight and once went 14 rounds with Jack Dempsey.
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Edgar Kennedy starred in one short, A Pair of Tights, where he plays a tightwad determined to spend as little as possible on a date.
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The "Average Man" comedies starred Edgar Kennedy as a blustery, stubborn everyman determined to accomplish a household project or get ahead professionally, despite the meddling of his featherbrained wife, her freeloading brother and his dubious mother-in-law.
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Edgar Kennedy pioneered the kind of domestic situation comedy that later became familiar on television.
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Each installment ended with Edgar Kennedy embarrassed, humbled or defeated, looking at the camera and doing his patent slow burn.
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Edgar Kennedy made six "Average Man" shorts a year for 17 years.
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Edgar Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio hired him to play hotheads.
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Edgar Kennedy often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman.
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Edgar Kennedy played comical detectives opposite two titans of acting: John Barrymore, in Twentieth Century ; and Rex Harrison, in Unfaithfully Yours.
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Edgar Kennedy died of throat cancer at the Motion Picture Hospital, San Fernando Valley on November 9,1948.
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Edgar Kennedy was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.