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(44,397 posts) Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:46 AM Mar 2016

George Kennedy dies at 91; Oscar-winning 'Cool Hand Luke,' 'Airport' actor

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Source: La times

geoge Kennedy, the veteran actor who built his early career playing heavies and won an Academy Award in 1968 for his supporting role as the tough Southern prison-camp convict who grew to hero-worship Paul Newman’s defiant title character in “Cool Hand Luke,” died Sunday in Boise, Idaho, of natural causes, said his grandson Cory Schenkel. He was 91.

In a more than 50-year screen career, the deep-voiced Kennedy appeared in dozens of movies, including “The Flight of the Phoenix,” “The Sons of Katie Elder,” “The Dirty Dozen,” “Earthquake,” “Cahill United States Marshal,” “The Eiger Sanction,” “Death on the Nile,” and the “Airport” series of films.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-george-kennedy-20160229-story.html

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George Kennedy dies at 91; Oscar-winning 'Cool Hand Luke,' 'Airport' actor (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Mar 2016 OP

R.I.P. rpannier Mar 2016 #1

Needs this..if I may pkdu Mar 2016 #2

.. Liberal_in_LA Mar 2016 #3

Thanks much...I added another too, nt pkdu Mar 2016 #4

RIP, I love the Naked Gun movies. Initech Mar 2016 #5

More here... FailureToCommunicate Mar 2016 #6

RIP, George Kennedy. OnyxCollie Mar 2016 #7

RIP George elmac Mar 2016 #8

What a great actor! montana_hazeleyes Mar 2016 #9

RIP. We Always Loved The Big Guy! Bigredhunk Mar 2016 #10

Great story Liberal_in_LA Mar 2016 #11

Dupe but he will be missed!!! BumRushDaShow Mar 2016 #12

Locking... BooScout Mar 2016 #13

rpannier

(24,328 posts)

1. R.I.P.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:48 AM

Mar 2016

Great actor

pkdu

(3,977 posts)

2. Needs this..if I may

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:49 AM

Mar 2016

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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)

3. ..

Reply to pkdu (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:50 AM

Mar 2016

pkdu

(3,977 posts)

4. Thanks much...I added another too, nt

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:52 AM

Mar 2016

Initech

(100,041 posts)

5. RIP, I love the Naked Gun movies.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:57 AM

Mar 2016

One of my favorite scenes:

FailureToCommunicate

(14,007 posts)

6. More here...

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:01 AM

Mar 2016

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141363622

R.I.P. George Kennedy

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)

7. RIP, George Kennedy.

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:01 AM

Mar 2016

elmac

(4,642 posts)

8. RIP George

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:20 AM

Mar 2016

one heck of an actor.

montana_hazeleyes

(3,424 posts)

9. What a great actor!

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:28 AM

Mar 2016

Love him. RIP George

Bigredhunk

(1,348 posts)

10. RIP. We Always Loved The Big Guy!

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 04:08 AM

Mar 2016

My mum used to work at K-Mart in Dubuque, IA back in the day. George Kennedy was filming a movie in Galena, IL with Clint Eastwood. Mr Kennedy came into K-Mart and walked around for a while, getting a few things. Mum couldn't believe he was there, so kept looking at him. She said he seemed surprised, a little bummed even, that nobody recognized him. As he was finishing checking out and getting ready to leave, he noticed that she'd recognized him and was looking at him. He gave her a big smile in recognition, totally making her day.