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