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Edgar Kennedy
Born	Edgar Livingston Kennedy April 26, 1890(1890-04-26) Monterey County, California, U.S.
Died	November 9, 1948 (aged 58) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Years active	1915–1965

Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890—November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Woodland Hills is a district in the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The year 1915 in film involved some significant events Events June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA was formed by The year 1965 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films (U Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works 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. Lemonade is a Lemon -flavored Soft drink. The term can refer to two different types of beverage In the U The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling Comedians who appeared in Vaudeville, stage plays film and television Duck Soup is a Marx Brothers Anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur

A former singer and boxer, Kennedy worked in hundreds of films beginning as a Keystone Kop in 1914. The Keystone Cops was a series of Silent film comedies featuring a totally incompetent group of Policemen produced by Mack Sennett for his Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year 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. Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle ( March 24 1887 &ndash June 29 1933) was an American Silent film Comedian Laurel and Hardy were the popular American -based comedy team of thin British-born Stan Laurel (1890-1965 and heavy American-born Oliver Hardy (1892-1957 The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling Comedians who appeared in Vaudeville, stage plays film and television Charley Chase ( October 20, 1893 - June 20, 1940) was an American Comedian, Screenwriter and Film director "The Little Rascals" redirects here For other uses see The Little Rascals (disambiguation. 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. Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr ( January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and 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. Stuart Erwin ( 14 February 1903, Squaw Valley California &ndash 21 December 1967, Beverly Hills California) was an Roach also allowed Kennedy to direct, which resulted in about a dozen comedies.

In 1930, Edgar Kennedy was featured by RKO-Pathe in a pair of short-subject comedies, Next Door Neighbors and Help Wanted, Female. Kennedy's characterization of a short-tempered householder was so effective that RKO built a series around it. The "Average Man" comedies starred Kennedy as a blustery, stubborn guy determined to accomplish a household project or get ahead professionally, despite the meddling of his featherbrained wife (usually Florence Lake, her freeloading brother (originally William Eugene, then Jack Rice) and his dubious mother-in-law (Dot Farley). Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake on January 1, 1904 &ndash died April 11, 1980) was an American Actress Jack Rice (1893 - 1968 was an American Actor best known for appearing as the scrounging freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy 's series of short Dot Farley ( 6 February, 1881 &ndash 2 May, 1971) was an American film actress Kennedy pioneered the kind of domestic situation comedy that later became familiar on television. Each installment would end with Edgar. embarrassed or humbled or defeated, looking at the camera and doing his patented slow burn. The Edgar Kennedy Series, with its theme song "Chopsticks," became a standard part of the moviegoing experience: Kennedy made six "Average Man" shorts a year for 17 years.

Edgar Kennedy became so identified with frustration that practically every studio, large and small, hired him to play hotheads. He often played dumb cops, detectives, and even a prison warden; sometimes he was a grouchy moving man, truck driver, or blue-collar workman. His character usually lost his temper at least once. In Diplomaniacs, Kennedy presides over an international tribunal, where Wheeler & Woolsey want to do something about world peace. Bert Wheeler ( 7 April 1895 in Paterson New Jersey &ndash 18 January 1968 in New York City) and Robert Woolsey "Well, ya can't do anything about it here," yells Kennedy, "this is a peace conference!" Kennedy, now established as the poster boy for frustration, even starred in an instructional film titled The Other Fellow, in which loudmouthed roadhog Edgar always vents his anger on other drivers, little realizing that, to them, he is "the other fellow. For the 2004 film please see Poster Boy For the Street Artist please see Posterchild (street artist embodiment|epitome|archetype The phrase "

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). Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr ( April 20, 1893 &ndash March 8, 1971) was an American Film actor and producer The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is a 1947 Comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring the Silent film comic icon

Kennedy died of throat cancer in 1948 and was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California. Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the Esophagus. There are various subtypes Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California. Los Angeles County is a county in California and is by far the most populous county in the United States.

In 2005, a book biography by Bill Cassara was published about Kennedy's life and career. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A biography (from the Greek words bíos (βίος meaning "life" and gráphein (γράφειν meaning "to write" is an account

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NAME	Kennedy, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kennedy, Edgar Livingston
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1890-4-26
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monterey County, California, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH	1948-11-9
PLACE OF DEATH	Woodland Hills, California, U.S.

An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Woodland Hills is a district in the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

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