Tom Kennedy
Born: 1885-07-14 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1965-10-06
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2006
- 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)
1965
- The Bounty Killer as Waiter
1963
- My Favorite Martian as Mike
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Traffic Cop (uncredited)
1960
- Walk Like a Dragon as Jethro the Bartender
1959
- Bonanza as Townsman (uncredited)
- Rawhide as Townsman (uncredited)
- Some Like It Hot as Bouncer (uncredited)
1958
- The Rifleman as Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Barfly (uncredited)
- The Texan as Bartender (uncredited)
- 77 Sunset Strip as Night Watchman (uncredited)
1957
- Perry Mason as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Maverick as Barkeep (uncredited)
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Townsman (uncredited)
- Sugarfoot as Reception Guest (uncredited)
- Public Pigeon No. 1 as Prison Guard (uncredited)
1956
- Hey, Jeannie! as Collector
1955
- Cheyenne as Townsman / Barfly (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke as Cantina Barfly (uncredited)
- Hook a Crook as I. Katchum (archive footage) (uncredited)
1953
- Topper as Kewpie
- Loose Loot as Joe
- Spooks! as Mr. Hyde
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre
- Gold Fever as Big Tom
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Man Carrying Costello
- Invasion, U.S.A. as Tim, Bartender
1951
- Boston Blackie as Frank
- The Scarf as Asylum Inmate
- Let's Go Navy! as Officer Donovan
- The Awful Sleuth as Pinky
- Havana Rose as House Detective
- Fraidy Cat as I. Katchum (uncredited)
1950
- Riding High as Racetrack Mug (uncredited)
- Triple Trouble as Third Convict Calling Out from Cell
1949
- Square Dance Jubilee as Bartender Tom
- The Mutineers as Butch
1948
- Jinx Money as Officer Rooney
- The Paleface as Bartender
- Devil's Cargo as Naga, Mug Who Tails Delgado
- Joe Palooka in Winner Take All as Lefty
- Thunder in the Pines as Josh, the Station Master
- Trouble Preferred as Night Watchman (uncredited)
1947
- Dangerous Years as Mr. Adamson
- Magic Town as Moving Man (uncredited)
- The Pretender as Fingers Murdock
- The Burning Cross as Police Station Sergeant
- The Judge Steps Out as Jack (Court Receptionist) (uncredited)
- The Mighty McGurk as Bruiser (uncredited)
- The Case of the Baby-Sitter as Officer Murphy
- The Hat Box Mystery as Policeman Murphy
1946
- Motor Maniacs as Mother's Suitor
- The Kid from Brooklyn as Referee #1 (uncredited)
- Blonde Alibi as Policeman Clancy (Uncredited)
- Jiggers, My Wife as Joe
- Society Mugs as Tom
- So's Your Antenna
1945
- Man Alive as Bartender (uncredited)
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Officer #1
- Voice of the Whistler as Ferdinand / Hammerlock
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
- Where the Pest Begins as Jonathan Batts
1944
- The Princess and the Pirate as Alonzo
- Radio Rampage as Mr. Thompson
- And the Angels Sing as Potatoes
- The Girl in the Case as Watchman (uncredited)
- The Town Went Wild as Policeman
- Girls! Girls! Girls! as Police Detective Lt. Kerrigan
- Moonlight and Cactus as Lucky
- Take It Big as Moving Man (uncredited)
1943
- Campus Rhythm as Police Sergeant
- Ladies' Day as Dugan
- Taxi, Mister as Kennedy
- Wedtime Stories as House Detective
- Dixie as Barkeeper (uncredited)
- Petticoat Larceny as Pinky
- True to Life as Customer (uncredited)
- Hit Parade of 1943 as Westinghouse
- So's Your Uncle as Cop
- Stage Door Canteen as Tom Kennedy
- Here Comes Elmer as Johnson
- Dixie Dugan as Sergeant (uncredited)
- Cutie on Duty as Rocky
1942
- Broadway as Kerry (uncredited)
- Mexican Spitfire's Elephant as Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender
- Butch Minds the Baby as Philly the Weeper
- Pardon My Stripes as Casino
- Blondie's Blessed Event as Motorcycle Cop Who Names The Baby 'Cookie' (uncredited)
- Pretty Dolly as Gus
1941
- Angels with Broken Wings as Gus
- Man-I-Cured as House Detective, Maizie's Boy Friend
- The Mexican Spitfire's Baby as Sheriff Judson
- The Officer and the Lady as Bumps O'Neil
- Sailors on Leave as Dugan
- Thieves Fall Out as Cabbie
- The Great Swindle as Capper Smith
- Sweet Spirits of the Nighter as Tom
1940
- Curtain Call as Masseur
- Sporting Blood as Grantly
- Flowing Gold as Petunia
- Millionaire Playboy as Tom Murphy
- Mexican Spitfire Out West as Cabbie
- Pop Always Pays as Murphy
- An Angel from Texas as Chopper
- Remember the Night as 'Fat' Mike
1939
- Society Lawyer as Alf
- Quiet, Please as Gorilla Stand-In Max Imhof
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown as Det. Sgt. Gahagan
- The Day the Bookies Wept as Pinky Brophy
- Torchy Runs for Mayor as Gahagan
- The Long Shot as Mike Claurens
- The Covered Trailer as Otto
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Gahagan
- These Glamour Girls as Joy Lane Manager (uncredited)
1938
- Crashing Hollywood as Al
- Crime Ring as Dummy
- Torchy Blane in Panama as Detective Gahagan
- Danger on the Air as Hotel Doorman (Uncredited)
- Blondes at Work as Gahagan
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Gagahan (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Go Chase Yourself as Icebox
- Making the Headlines as Police Sergeant Handley
- Swing It, Sailor! as Policeman
- Torchy Gets Her Man as Gahagan
- He Couldn't Say No as Dimples
- Halfway to Hollywood as Tom
- Fiddling Around as Tom Kennedy
1937
- Armored Car as Tiny
- Varsity Show as Policeman (uncredited)
- Behind The Headlines as Tiny
- New News as Tom Kennedy
- Living on Love as Pete Ryan
- The Case of the Stuttering Bishop as Jim Magooney
- Fly Away Baby as Gahagan
- She Had to Eat as Pete
- The Big Shot as Bugs
- The Adventurous Blonde as Detective Gahagan
- Marry the Girl as Jasper
- Married Before Breakfast as Mr. Baglipp
- Slave Ship as Bartender
- Forty Naughty Girls as Detective Casey
- Wise Girl as Detective
- Smart Blonde as Gahagan
- Bury the Hatchet as Tom
- Calling All Curtains
1936
- Poppy as Hot Dog Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
- Hollywood Boulevard as Bouncer at Pago Pago
- Midnight Blunders as Tom
- The Big Game as Fan in Stands
- Wives Never Know as Bartender (uncredited)
- Grandma's Buoys as Tom
- Just Speeding
- The Country Doctor as Logger (uncredited)
- Free Rent as Mr. Kennedy
1935
- Stage Frights
- The Bride Comes Home as Husky Thug at Party (uncredited)
- Old Man Rhythm as Campus Guard
- Gobs of Trouble
- Horse Heir
- She Couldn't Take It as Slugs
- Oh, My Nerves
- Gum Shoes
- Raised and Called
- Alibi Bye Bye as Snoops, the house dick
1934
- Hollywood Party as Beavers (uncredited)
- Strictly Dynamite as Junior
- The Dancing Millionaire as Crusher McGee
- Down to Their Last Yacht as Joe 'Uncle Ed' Schultz (uncredited)
- Strictly Fresh Yeggs as The Burglar
- Cracked Shots as Tom 'Pinky' Kennedy
- Unlucky Strike
1933
- 42nd Street as Slim Murphy (uncredited)
- She Done Him Wrong as Big Bill - Bartender (uncredited)
- Penthouse as Joe (uncredited)
- Blondie Johnson as Hype (uncredited)
- Day of Reckoning as Furniture Mover
- Man of the Forest as Sheriff Blake
- Hip Zip Hooray as The Prisoner
- Cross Fire as French Bouncer (uncredited)
- Suits to Nuts as Client
1932
- Skyscraper Souls as Masseur
- Lighthouse Love as The Marine Sergeant
- Huddle as Moving Man (uncredited)
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Recruiting Sergeant
- Fish Feathers
- If I Had a Million as Joe - Carnival Bouncer (uncredited)
- Lawyer Man as Jake - the Ice Man (uncredited)
- The Devil Is Driving as Fritz (uncredited)
- Night After Night as Tom
- The Crooked Circle as Mike, the policeman
- The Boudoir Butler as Dr. Quigley - Slipper's Accomplice
- The Promoter as Burke
- Lighthouse Love as The Marine Sergeant
1931
- Iron Man as Bartender (uncredited)
- Monkey Business as Gibson
- Flying High as Jokester with Firecrackers (uncredited)
- The Gang Buster as 'Gopher' Brant
- It Pays to Advertise as Perkins
- Young as You Feel as Colorado Detective
- Caught as Jard Harmon
1930
- The Fall Guy as Detective Burke
- See America Thirst as 'Shivering' Smith
1929
- Happy Days as Doorman (uncredited)
- The Shannons of Broadway as Burt
- Glad Rag Doll as Manager
- Big News as Officer Ryan
1928
- The Cop as Sergeant Coughlin
- Tillie's Punctured Romance as Property Man
- None But the Brave as Noah
- Wife Savers as General Lavoris
- Hold 'Em Yale as Detective
- Marked Money as Bill Clemons
1927
- Silver Valley as 'Hayfever' Hawkins
- Senorita as Oliveros Gaucho (uncredited)
- Alias The Deacon as Bull Moran
- The Mysterious Rider as Lem Spooner
- Ham and Eggs at the Front as Lazarus
- Fireman, Save My Child as Capt. Kennedy
1926
- Mantrap as Curly Evans
- Man of the Forest as Sheriff
- The Yankee Señor as Luke Martin
- The Better 'Ole as The Blacksmith (uncredited)
- Born to the West as Dinkey Hooley
- Behind the Front as Sergeant
- We're in the Navy Now as Sailor Percival Scruggs
1925
- As Man Desires as Gorilla Bagsley
- The Best Bad Man as Dan Ellis
1924
- Loving Lies as Captain Lindstrom
1922
- The Speeder
- The Flirt as Sam Fenton
- Our Leading Citizen as Boots
- Full o' Pep
- The Egg as The Boss
- The Flaming Hour as Ben
- If You Believe It, It's So as Bartender
1921
- Skirts
- Sunless Sunday
- Serenade as Zambrano
1920
- Kismet as Kutayt
- The Poor Simp as Jim Donnelly
1919
- The Island of Intrigue as Jackson, the butler
- Cupid's Day Off as Gambling House Operator
- Yankee Doodle in Berlin as American General (uncredited)
- Her First Kiss
- A Schoolhouse Scandal
1918
- Mickey as Tom Rawlings
1917
- That Night as The Proprietor's Henchman
- Whose Baby? as The Fake Minister
- The Late Lamented as The Model's Brother
- Thirst as Man in Employment Agency (uncredited)
- Her Torpedoed Love as Roy Mulligan the Hobo / The False Minister
- The Pullman Bride as Oklahoma Pete - a Bandit
- Two Crooks as The Detective
1916
- His Bitter Pill as Dan's Henchman
1915
- Double Trouble as Judge Blodgett
- Fatty and the Broadway Stars as Man Who Discovers Hat