Arthur Kennedy
Born: 1914-02-17 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1990-01-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the 1955 film Trial, and was a five-time Academy Award nominee.
Filmography
1990
1989
- Signs of Life as Owen Coughlin
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Assault with a Deadly Weapon ... (Director)
1979
- The Humanoid as Dr. Kraspin
1978
- Cyclone as Priest
- Cave of the Sharks as Mr. Jackson
- Covert Action as CIA Chief of Station, Athens
- Dirty World as Senator Merelli
- Last Angels as Il nonno
1977
- The Sentinel as Monsignor Franchino
- Nine Guests for a Crime as Uberto
1976
- Rome, Armed to the Teeth as Vice questore Ruini
- Emmanuelle on Taboo Island as Antonio
- Blackmail Chase as Mike Jannacone
1975
- Killer Cop as Armando Di Federico
1974
- Nakia
- The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue as The Inspector
- The Antichrist as Bishop Ascanio Oderisi
- Nakia as Sheriff Sam Jericho
- The Man from Independence as Tom Pendergast
1973
- Ricco as Don Vito
- The President's Plane Is Missing as Gunther Damon
- Family Killer as Don Angelino Ferrante
1972
- Crawlspace as Albert Graves
1971
- My Old Man's Place as Walter Pell
- A Death of Innocence as Mark Hirsch
1970
- The Movie Murderer as Angus MacGregor
1969
- Shark as Doc
- Hail, Hero! as Albert Dixon
1968
- Anzio as Maj. Gen. Jack Lesley
- Day of the Evil Gun as Owen Forbes
- A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die as Tuscosa Marshal Roy W. Colby
1967
- Monday's Child as Peter Richardson
1966
- ABC Stage 67 as Lieutenant Hammond
- CBS Playhouse as Rome Harper
- Nevada Smith as Bill Bowdre
- Fantastic Voyage as Dr. Duval
1965
- Murieta as Capt. Love
- Joy in the Morning as Patrick Brown
- The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles as Narrator (voice)
- F.D.R. as Narrator
1964
- Cheyenne Autumn as Doc Holliday
- Attack and Retreat as Ferro Maria Ferri
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Dr. Walter Meade Taylor
- Espionage as Ed Pierce
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Keith Hollands
- Lawrence of Arabia as Jackson Bentley
- Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man as Dr. Henry Adams
1961
- Barabbas as Pontius Pilate
- Murder She Said as Paul Quimper
- Claudelle Inglish as Clyde Inglish
1960
- Elmer Gantry as Jim Lefferts
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies as Paul Heller
1959
- A Summer Place as Bart Hunter
- Home Is the Hero as Willie O'Reilly
1958
- Some Came Running as Frank Hirsh
- Twilight for the Gods as First Mate Ramsay
1957
- Peyton Place as Lucas Cross
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sam Carter
- The Rawhide Years as Rick Harper
1955
- MGM Parade
- The Man from Laramie as Vic Hansbro
- The Desperate Hours as Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
- Crashout as Joe Quinn
- The Naked Dawn as Santiago
- Trial as Barney Castle
1954
- Impulse as Alan Curtis
1953
- General Electric Theater as Whitney Barton
1952
- Bend of the River as Emerson Cole
- Rancho Notorious as Vern Haskell
- The Lusty Men as Wes Merritt
- The Girl in White as Dr. Ben Barringer
1951
- Red Mountain as Lane Waldron
- Bright Victory as Larry Nevins
1950
- The Glass Menagerie as Tom Wingfield
1949
- Champion as Connie Kelly
- The Window as Ed Woodry
- Too Late for Tears as Alan Palmer
- The Walking Hills as Chalk
- Chicago Deadline as Tommy Ditman
1947
- Boomerang! as John Waldron
- Cheyenne as The Sundance Kid
1946
- Devotion as Branwell Brontë
- It's Your America as Soldier / Narrator (uncredited)
1945
- The Last Bomb as Crewman (voice)
- Target - Invisible as Air Force Officer / Narrator
1944
- The Memphis Belle as (uncredited)
- Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane as Bob Chilton
- Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure as Capt. Mathews
- Ditch and Live as Captain Scott H. Reynolds
- Resisting Enemy Interrogation as Sgt. Alfred Mason
1943
- Air Force as Bombardier
- Reconnaissance Pilot as Decoration Announcer (voice)
- How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations) as Instructor
- How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations) as Instructor
1942
- Desperate Journey as Flight Officer Jed Forrest
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
1941
- High Sierra as Red
- They Died with Their Boots On as Ned Sharp
- Strange Alibi as Sgt. Joe Geary
- Bad Men of Missouri as Jim Younger
- Knockout as Johnny Rocket
- Highway West as George Foster
1940
- City for Conquest as Eddie Kenny