Arthur Kennedy
Acting • Born 1914-02-17 – Died 1990-01-05
Biography
John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the 1955 film Trial, and was a five-time Academy Award nominee.
Filmography
103 credits
Lawrence of Arabia
Movie • 1962
Jackson Bentley
Fantastic Voyage
Movie • 1966
Dr. Duval
Murder She Said
Movie • 1961
Paul Quimper
Shark
Movie • 1969
Doc
Nevada Smith
Movie • 1966
Bill Bowdre
Elmer Gantry
Movie • 1960
Jim Lefferts
City for Conquest
Movie • 1940
Eddie Kenny
Barabbas
Movie • 1961
Pontius Pilate
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Movie • 1974
The Inspector
The Window
Movie • 1949
Ed Woodry
Champion
Movie • 1949
Connie Kelly
Too Late for Tears
Movie • 1949
Alan Palmer
Day of the Evil Gun
Movie • 1968
Owen Forbes
Crashout
Movie • 1955
Joe Quinn
High Sierra
Movie • 1941
Red
Chicago Deadline
Movie • 1949
Tommy Ditman
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie • 1964
Doc Holliday
Anzio
Movie • 1968
Maj. Gen. Jack Lesley
Rancho Notorious
Movie • 1952
Vern Haskell
The Memphis Belle
Movie • 1944
(uncredited)
Cyclone
Movie • 1978
Priest
Impulse
Movie • 1954
Alan Curtis
The Lusty Men
Movie • 1952
Wes Merritt
Peyton Place
Movie • 1957
Lucas Cross
Air Force
Movie • 1943
Bombardier
Some Came Running
Movie • 1958
Frank Hirsh
Bend of the River
Movie • 1952
Emerson Cole
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Ned Sharp
Highway West
Movie • 1941
George Foster
The Desperate Hours
Movie • 1955
Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
The Sentinel
Movie • 1977
Monsignor Franchino
The Glass Menagerie
Movie • 1950
Tom Wingfield
The Man from Laramie
Movie • 1955
Vic Hansbro
A Summer Place
Movie • 1959
Bart Hunter
Boomerang!
Movie • 1947
John Waldron
Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Movie • 1976
Vice questore Ruini
Strange Alibi
Movie • 1941
Sgt. Joe Geary
Devotion
Movie • 1946
Branwell Brontë
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Movie • 1968
Tuscosa Marshal Roy W. Colby
The Humanoid
Movie • 1979
Dr. Kraspin
Desperate Journey
Movie • 1942
Flight Officer Jed Forrest
Signs of Life
Movie • 1989
Owen Coughlin
The Man from Independence
Movie • 1974
Tom Pendergast
Twilight for the Gods
Movie • 1958
First Mate Ramsay
The Antichrist
Movie • 1974
Bishop Ascanio Oderisi
Killer Cop
Movie • 1975
Armando Di Federico
Crawlspace
Movie • 1972
Albert Graves
Murieta
Movie • 1965
Capt. Love
The Rawhide Years
Movie • 1956
Rick Harper
Bright Victory
Movie • 1951
Larry Nevins
The Naked Dawn
Movie • 1955
Santiago
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie • 1962
Dr. Henry Adams
Covert Action
Movie • 1978
CIA Chief of Station, Athens
Trial
Movie • 1955
Barney Castle
Claudelle Inglish
Movie • 1961
Clyde Inglish
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Movie • 1944
Sgt. Alfred Mason
Joy in the Morning
Movie • 1965
Patrick Brown
Red Mountain
Movie • 1951
Lane Waldron
Bad Men of Missouri
Movie • 1941
Jim Younger
Knockout
Movie • 1941
Johnny Rocket
Cheyenne
Movie • 1947
The Sundance Kid
The Girl in White
Movie • 1952
Dr. Ben Barringer
Monday's Child
Movie • 1967
Peter Richardson
Dirty World
Movie • 1978
Senator Merelli
The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
Movie • 1965
Narrator (voice)
Attack and Retreat
Movie • 1964
Ferro Maria Ferri
Nakia
Movie • 1974
Sheriff Sam Jericho
The Walking Hills
Movie • 1949
Chalk
Blackmail Chase
Movie • 1976
Mike Jannacone
Grandpa
Movie • 1990
Family Killer
Movie • 1973
Don Angelino Ferrante
Last Angels
Movie • 1978
Il nonno
A Death of Innocence
Movie • 1971
Mark Hirsch
The Movie Murderer
Movie • 1970
Angus MacGregor
Home Is the Hero
Movie • 1959
Willie O'Reilly
Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Movie • 1976
Antonio
Hail, Hero!
Movie • 1969
Albert Dixon
Cave of the Sharks
Movie • 1978
Mr. Jackson
The President's Plane Is Missing
Movie • 1973
Gunther Damon
The Last Bomb
Movie • 1945
Crewman (voice)
My Old Man's Place
Movie • 1971
Walter Pell
How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations)
Movie • 1943
Instructor
How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations)
Movie • 1943
Instructor
Reconnaissance Pilot
Movie • 1943
Decoration Announcer (voice)
Ditch and Live
Movie • 1944
Captain Scott H. Reynolds
Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
Movie • 1944
Capt. Mathews
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Movie • 1944
Bob Chilton
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Target - Invisible
Movie • 1945
Air Force Officer / Narrator
Nine Guests for a Crime
Movie • 1977
Uberto
It's Your America
Movie • 1946
Soldier / Narrator (uncredited)
Ricco
Movie • 1973
Don Vito
Breakdowns of 1942
Movie • 1942
Self
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Movie • 1960
Paul Heller
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Dr. Walter Meade Taylor
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Whitney Barton
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
Lieutenant Hammond
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sam Carter
F.D.R.
TV • 1965
Narrator
Nakia
TV • 1974
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Keith Hollands
MGM Parade
TV • 1955