George Kennedy - biography

“I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said ‘Success is primarily luck anyway.’ And I have been very lucky.  Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!”

“My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can’t really say anything about his hearing.”

“When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product.  But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.”

“I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I’ve had.”

“Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II.  It’s probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.”

George Kennedy has appeared in the following films:
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Charade (1963)
The Man from the Diners’ Club (1963)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)
McHale’s Navy (1964)
Strait-Jacket (1964)
In Harm’s Way (1965)
Mirage (1965)
Shenandoah (1965)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
The Ballad of Josie (1967)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Bandolero! (1968)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
The Pink Jungle (1968)
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
...tick... tick... tick... (1970)
Airport (1970)
Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
Fools’ Parade (1971)
Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
Lost Horizon (1973)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
The ’Human’ Factor (1975)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Airport ’77 (1977)
Brass Target (1978)
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Concorde ... Airport ’79 (1979)
The Double McGuffin (1979)
Fukkatsu no hi (1980)
Chattanooga Choo Choo (1984)
Radioactive Dreams (1985)
Savage Dawn (1985)
The Delta Force (1986)
Creepshow 2 (1987)
Escuadron (1988)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Born to Race (1988)
Ministry of Vengeance (1989)
La bahía esmeralda (1989)
Hired to Kill (1990)
Driving Me Crazy (1991)
Hangfire (1991)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Distant Justice (1992)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Don’t Come Knocking (2005)
Truce (2005)
Six Days in Paradise (2010)
Another Happy Day (2011)