RIP George Kennedy (1 Viewer)

[Galileo]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/02/29/george-kennedy-star-cool-hand-luke-dies-91/81124232/

 

[Todem]

Loved Kennedy. Great character actor. I remember him in all the Airport Movies, Dirty Dozen, Earthquake, so many movies over the years in the 70's and 80's.

RIP.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Loved Kennedy. Great character actor. I remember him in all the Airport Movies, Dirty Dozen, Earthquake, so many movies over the years in the 70's and 80's.

RIP.

Leslie Nielson always said that Kennedy never got enough credit for how good he was in the "Naked Gun" movies. He was a perfect straight man. 

 

[joffer]

RIP Dragline

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Will be spending the rest of eternity in The Box.

 

[heckmanm]

May try a little grab-### in the shower

 

[McGarnicle]

RIP mullethead :(

 

[nittanylion]

Ain't no grave (gonna keep this body down)...

 

[Das Boot]

Gonna eat 50 eggs for dinner tonight in his memory.

No man can eat 50 eggs.

 

[Bob Magaw]

RIP

As noted, outstanding, underrated character actor that generally elevated whatever movie he was in. Played a great heavy.

My favorite movie with him he received a co-starring credit with Clint Eastwood.

 

[BobbyLayne]

16 years in the Army. Did not know that.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

My boy says he can eat 50 eggs, he'll eat 50 eggs.

Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?

 

[Aerial Assault]

Aw, that's a shame.  RIP.  

No one on this force will rest until we mourn him properly.  Now let's all get a bite to eat.  

 

[rockaction]

My boy says he can eat 50 eggs, he'll eat 50 eggs.

This conversation is the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. 

 

[Ditka Butkus]

RIP Dragline..........91 was a good ride

 

[Christo]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-xqdun2tY7hbmn4/airport_1970_cleaning_the_runway_part_5/

 

[saintfool]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-xqdun2tY7hbmn4/airport_1970_cleaning_the_runway_part_5/

he's the best in those movies.

From Airport '79..

Isabelle: You pilots are such... men.

Capt. Joe Patroni: They don't call it the cockpit for nothing, honey.

 

[strykerpks]

They're not here for you. "Weird Al" Yankovic is on the plane. 

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Frank: Oh, by the way. Congratulations. I heard Edna's pregnant again.
Ed: Yeah. And when I catch the guy who did it.

 

[squistion]

Most of his obituaries omit how he got his start in show business.

In the 50's Phil Silvers had a comedy sitcom about life in the Army, called Sargent Bilko (aka You'll Never Get Rich, and also Bilko).

Anyway the show contacted the Department of the Army to send over a technical advisor so that they could portray things correctly. George Kennedy was who the DOA sent over and Silvers somehow recognized he had acting ability, or at least was a natural to play a serviceman. Anyway, they started casting him in bit parts and as they say, the rest was history. Not an overnight breakout or success but he gradually kept landing better and better roles until he was recognized as being one of the finest character actors of his era.

 

[[scooter]]

Frank Drebin: That's the red-light district. I wonder why Savage is hanging around down there.
Ed Hocken: Sex, Frank?
Frank Drebin: Uh...no, not right now, Ed.

 

[urbanhack]

 

[Mr. Mojo]

He was a very good one. 

Line from Airport: "The only thing these 707s can't do is read!"

 

[Christo]

Most of his obituaries omit how he got his start in show business.

In the 50's Phil Silvers had a comedy sitcom about life in the Army, called Sargent Bilko (aka You'll Never Get Rich, and also Bilko).

Anyway the show contacted the Department of the Army to send over a technical advisor so that they could portray things correctly. George Kennedy was who the DOA sent over and Silvers somehow recognized he had acting ability, or at least was a natural to play a serviceman. Anyway, they started casting him in bit parts and as they say, the rest was history. Not an overnight breakout or success but he gradually kept landing better and better roles until he was recognized as being one of the finest character actors of his era.

Good show