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Tom Kennedy (actor)

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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. [1]

83 relations: Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Actor, As Man Desires, Behind the Front (film), Behind the Headlines (1937 film), Bone tumor, Bringing Up Father (1946 film), Columbia Pictures, Comedian, Comedy film, Crashing Hollywood (1938 film), Crime Ring (film), Curtain Call (1940 film), Edgar Kennedy, El Brendel, Fly-Away Baby, Forty Naughty Girls, Gunsmoke, Hal Roach, Havana Rose, Hold That Line, Hollywood, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood Party (1934 film), Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film), It Pays to Advertise (film), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters, Laurel and Hardy, Let's Go Navy!, Living on Love, Loose Loot, Los Angeles, Love Over Night, M (1951 film), Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Man of a Thousand Faces (film), Mantrap (1926 film), Marry the Girl (1937 film), Marx Brothers, Maverick (TV series), Mickey (1918 film), Monkey Business (1931 film), My Favorite Martian, New York City, One-Round Hogan, Our Leading Citizen (1922 film), Pack Up Your Troubles (1932 film), Perry Mason (TV series), ..., Petticoat Larceny, Phoney Cronies, Public Pigeon No. 1, Road Agent (1952 film), Say One for Me, Senorita (film), Shemp Howard, Short film, Skirts (film), Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (film), So's Your Uncle, Society Mugs, Some Like It Hot, Spooks (1953 film), The Best Bad Man, The Bounty Killer (film), The Cop (1928 film), The Covered Trailer, The Crooked Circle (1932 film), The Fall Guy (1930 film), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm, The Mysterious Rider (1927 film), The Paleface (1948 film), The Scarf (film), The Three Stooges, The Ugly Ones, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928 film), Torchy Blane, W. C. Fields, Walk Like a Dragon, We're in the Navy Now, Western (genre), 42nd Street (film). Expand index (33 more) »

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a 1955 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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As Man Desires

As Man Desires is a lost 1925 silent film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Viola Dana.

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Behind the Front (film)

Behind the Front is a 1926 silent film war comedy directed by Eddie Sutherland and starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton.

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Behind the Headlines (1937 film)

Behind the Headlines is a 1937 American drama film directed by Richard Rosson from a screenplay by Edmund Hartmann and J. Robert Bren, based on an original story by Thomas Ahearn.

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Bone tumor

A bone tumor (also spelled bone tumour) is a neoplastic growth of tissue in bone.

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Bringing Up Father (1946 film)

Bringing Up Father is a 1946 American comedy film, based on the comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus, about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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Crashing Hollywood (1938 film)

Crashing Hollywood is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and written by Paul Yawitz and Gladys Atwater.

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Crime Ring (film)

Crime Ring is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Leslie Goodwins from a screenplay by J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater, based on a story by Reginald Taviner.

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Curtain Call (1940 film)

Curtain Call is a 1940 comedy, directed by Frank Woodruff and starring Barbara Read, Helen Vinson, Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride.

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Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film character actor, known as "Slow Burn".

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El Brendel

Elmer Goodfellow "El" Brendel (March 25, 1890 – April 9, 1964) was an American vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect routine as a Swedish immigrant.

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Fly-Away Baby

Fly-Away Baby is a 1937 American crime-mystery film starring Glenda Farrell as Torchy Blane, solving a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

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Forty Naughty Girls

Forty Naughty Girls is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by John Grey.

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Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.

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Hal Roach

Harold Eugene Roach Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang film comedy series.

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Havana Rose

Havana Rose is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Estelita Rodriguez, Bill Williams and Hugh Herbert.

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Hold That Line

Hold That Line is a 1952 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

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Hollywood Party (1934 film)

Hollywood Party, also known under its working title of Hollywood Revue of 1933 and Star Spangled Banquet, is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical film starring Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Vélez and Mickey Mouse (voiced by an uncredited Walt Disney).

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Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film)

Invasion, U.S.A. (sometime stylized Invasion USA) is a 1952 film based on a story by Robert Smith and Franz Spencer and directed by Alfred E. Green.

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It Pays to Advertise (film)

It Pays to Advertise is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, based on the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, starring Norman Foster and Carole Lombard, and directed by Frank Tuttle.

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast, about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers.

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Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters

Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters is a 1949 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Joe Yule, Renie Riano and George McManus.

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.

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Let's Go Navy!

Let's Go Navy! is a 1951 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys.

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Living on Love

Living on Love (1937) is a feature film released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Loose Loot

Loose Loot is the 146th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1953 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Love Over Night

Love Over Night is a 1928 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange and starring Rod La Rocque.

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M (1951 film)

M is a 1951 American film noir and a remake, directed by Joseph Losey, of Fritz Lang's 1931 German film of the same name.

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Mabel Normand

Mabel Ethelreid Normand (November 10, 1893 – February 23, 1930) was an American silent-film actress, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American film director and producer, known as the King of Comedy.

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Man of a Thousand Faces (film)

Man of a Thousand Faces is a 1957 film detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney, in which the title role is played by James Cagney.

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Mantrap (1926 film)

Mantrap is a 1926 American black-and-white silent comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis.

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Marry the Girl (1937 film)

Marry the Girl is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by William C. McGann.

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Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.

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Maverick (TV series)

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner.

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Mickey (1918 film)

Mickey is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks.

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Monkey Business (1931 film)

Monkey Business is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film.

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My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes (75 in black and white: 1963–65, 32 color: 1965–66).

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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One-Round Hogan

One-Round Hogan is a lost 1927 American boxing-drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Howard Bretherton.

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Our Leading Citizen (1922 film)

Our Leading Citizen is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and written by George Ade and Waldemar Young.

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Pack Up Your Troubles (1932 film)

Pack Up Your Troubles is a 1932 pre-Code Laurel and Hardy film directed by George Marshall and Raymond McCarey, named after the World War I song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile".

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Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966.

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Petticoat Larceny

Petticoat Larceny is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes from an original screenplay by Jack Townley and Stuart Palmer.

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Phoney Cronies

Phoney Cronies is a 1942 American comedy short by Columbia Pictures starring El Brendel, Tom Kennedy, Dudley Dickerson, and Monte Collins.

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Public Pigeon No. 1

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Road Agent (1952 film)

Road Agent is a 1952 Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Tim Holt and Richard Martin.

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Say One for Me

Say One For Me is a 1959 musical film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.

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Senorita (film)

Señorita is a 1927 American silent action comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and starring Bebe Daniels.

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Shemp Howard

Samuel Horwitz (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), known professionally as Shemp Howard, was an American actor and comedian.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Skirts (film)

Skirts is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Clyde Cook, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Jack Cooper, Billy Armstrong, and Ethel Teare.

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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (film)

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams, Walter Matthau, Charles McGraw and Sam Levene.

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So's Your Uncle

So's Your Uncle is 1943 comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and starring Billie Burke and Donald Woods.

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Society Mugs

Society Mugs is a 1946 Columbia Pictures short film directed by Edward Bernds and starring Shemp Howard and Tom Kennedy.

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American romantic comedy film set in 1929, directed and produced by Billy Wilder, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon.

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Spooks (1953 film)

Spooks! is a 1953 film directed by Jules White and starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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The Best Bad Man

The Best Bad Man is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by John G. Blystone and written by Lillie Hayward.

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The Bounty Killer (film)

The Bounty Killer is a 1965 American Technicolor Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and written by Ruth Alexander and Leo Gordon in Techniscope.

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The Cop (1928 film)

The Cop is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Donald Crisp.

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The Covered Trailer

The Covered Trailer is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Gus Meins and written by Jack Townley.

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The Crooked Circle (1932 film)

The Crooked Circle is a 1932 American pre-Code film, a comedy-mystery directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.

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The Fall Guy (1930 film)

The Fall Guy is a 1930 American pre-Code crime drama film, directed by Leslie Pearce and written by Tim Whelan, based upon the Broadway hit The Fall Guy, a Comedy in Three Acts, written by George Abbott and James Gleason.

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The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm

The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm is a 1957 American comedy film directed by Virgil Vogel.

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The Mysterious Rider (1927 film)

The Mysterious Rider is a lost 1927 American Western silent film directed by John Waters and written by Paul Gangelin, Zane Grey, Alfred Hustwick, and Fred Myton.

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The Paleface (1948 film)

The Paleface is a 1948 Technicolor comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane.

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The Scarf (film)

The Scarf is a 1951 American drama, suspense, crime, psychological, thriller film noir directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton and Emlyn Williams.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958.

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The Ugly Ones

The Ugly Ones (es: El precio de un hombre, lit. "The Price of a Man", it: The Bounty Killer, later La morte ti segue... ma non ha fretta, lit. "Death follows you... but not in a hurry") is a 1966 Spanish-Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Eugenio Martín.

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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928 film)

Tillie's Punctured Romance is a lost 1928 American silent circus comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway.

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Torchy Blane

Torchy Blane is a fictional female reporter starring in a series of films in the 1930s.

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W. C. Fields

William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.

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Walk Like a Dragon

Walk Like a Dragon is a 1960 American Western film directed by James Clavell and written by James Clavell and Daniel Mainwaring.

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We're in the Navy Now

We're in the Navy Now is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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42nd Street (film)

42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film, directed by Lloyd Bacon.

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