Tom Kennedy
Acting • Born 1885-07-14 – Died 1965-10-06
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. For over 50 years, from 1915 to 1965, he appeared in over 320 films and television series, often uncredited. His first film was a short black and white comedy, His Luckless Love. Kennedy was in all nine Torchy Blane films as Gahagan, the poetry-spouting cop whose running line was, "What a day! What a day!" He is often erroneously listed in film sources as the brother of slow-burning comedian Edgar Kennedy. Though the two men were not related, they were apparently good friends, with Tom appearing in many of Edgar's domestic two-reel comedy shorts. Tom Kennedy was also paired with Stooge Shemp Howard for several shorts for Columbia Pictures such as Society Mugs, as well as appearing with the Three Stooges in the films Loose Loot and Spooks!. He was also paired with El Brendel for four shorts, such as Phoney Cronies in 1942. His television appearances included episodes of Perry Mason, Maverick, My Favorite Martian, and Gunsmoke. Tom Kennedy continued making films right up until his death, his last film being the western The Bounty Killer.
Filmography
270 credits
Oh, My Nerves
Movie • 1935
42nd Street
Movie • 1933
Slim Murphy (uncredited)
Blondie's Blessed Event
Movie • 1942
Motorcycle Cop Who Names The Baby 'Cookie' (uncredited)
Blondie Johnson
Movie • 1933
Hype (uncredited)
The Pretender
Movie • 1947
Fingers Murdock
Here Comes Elmer
Movie • 1943
Johnson
The Princess and the Pirate
Movie • 1944
Alonzo
As Man Desires
Movie • 1925
Gorilla Bagsley
The Covered Trailer
Movie • 1939
Otto
Triple Trouble
Movie • 1950
Third Convict Calling Out from Cell
The Great Swindle
Movie • 1941
Capper Smith
She Done Him Wrong
Movie • 1933
Big Bill - Bartender (uncredited)
The Mysterious Rider
Movie • 1927
Lem Spooner
Man of the Forest
Movie • 1926
Sheriff
Born to the West
Movie • 1926
Dinkey Hooley
Remember the Night
Movie • 1940
'Fat' Mike
Silver Valley
Movie • 1927
'Hayfever' Hawkins
Voice of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Ferdinand / Hammerlock
The Officer and the Lady
Movie • 1941
Bumps O'Neil
It Pays to Advertise
Movie • 1931
Perkins
Man-I-Cured
Movie • 1941
House Detective, Maizie's Boy Friend
That Night
Movie • 1917
The Proprietor's Henchman
Fireman, Save My Child
Movie • 1927
Capt. Kennedy
Wife Savers
Movie • 1928
General Lavoris
Invasion, U.S.A.
Movie • 1952
Tim, Bartender
The Pullman Bride
Movie • 1917
Oklahoma Pete - a Bandit
Whose Baby?
Movie • 1917
The Fake Minister
Devil's Cargo
Movie • 1948
Naga, Mug Who Tails Delgado
The Bounty Killer
Movie • 1965
Waiter
The Town Went Wild
Movie • 1944
Policeman
Mickey
Movie • 1918
Tom Rawlings
Mantrap
Movie • 1926
Curly Evans
Smart Blonde
Movie • 1937
Gahagan
Pretty Dolly
Movie • 1942
Gus
The Speeder
Movie • 1922
Campus Rhythm
Movie • 1943
Police Sergeant
Butch Minds the Baby
Movie • 1942
Philly the Weeper
The Flirt
Movie • 1922
Sam Fenton
Loving Lies
Movie • 1924
Captain Lindstrom
Let's Go Navy!
Movie • 1951
Officer Donovan
Suits to Nuts
Movie • 1933
Client
The Kid from Brooklyn
Movie • 1946
Referee #1 (uncredited)
Riding High
Movie • 1950
Racetrack Mug (uncredited)
Quiet, Please
Movie • 1939
Gorilla Stand-In Max Imhof
Loose Loot
Movie • 1953
Joe
Spooks!
Movie • 1953
Mr. Hyde
Ladies' Day
Movie • 1943
Dugan
Cutie on Duty
Movie • 1943
Rocky
Varsity Show
Movie • 1937
Policeman (uncredited)
Wise Girl
Movie • 1937
Detective
Blondes at Work
Movie • 1938
Gahagan
The Cop
Movie • 1928
Sergeant Coughlin
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Movie • 1939
Gahagan
Torchy Blane in Panama
Movie • 1938
Detective Gahagan
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Movie • 1939
Gahagan
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Movie • 1939
Det. Sgt. Gahagan
The Adventurous Blonde
Movie • 1937
Detective Gahagan
Torchy Gets Her Man
Movie • 1938
Gahagan
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Movie • 1915
Man Who Discovers Hat
Alibi Bye Bye
Movie • 1935
Snoops, the house dick
The Late Lamented
Movie • 1917
The Model's Brother
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie • 1963
Traffic Cop (uncredited)
He Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1938
Dimples
The Promoter
Movie • 1932
Burke
Society Lawyer
Movie • 1939
Alf
Marry the Girl
Movie • 1937
Jasper
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie • 1999
Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)
So's Your Antenna
Movie • 1946
Raised and Called
Movie • 1935
Behind The Headlines
Movie • 1937
Tiny
New News
Movie • 1937
Tom Kennedy
The Day the Bookies Wept
Movie • 1939
Pinky Brophy
Swing It, Sailor!
Movie • 1938
Policeman
Unlucky Strike
Movie • 1934
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Movie • 1934
The Burglar
Cracked Shots
Movie • 1934
Tom 'Pinky' Kennedy
Go Chase Yourself
Movie • 1938
Icebox
The Boudoir Butler
Movie • 1932
Dr. Quigley - Slipper's Accomplice
Lawyer Man
Movie • 1932
Jake - the Ice Man (uncredited)
Magic Town
Movie • 1947
Moving Man (uncredited)
The Crooked Circle
Movie • 1932
Mike, the policeman
The Bride Comes Home
Movie • 1935
Husky Thug at Party (uncredited)
Full o' Pep
Movie • 1922
The Fall Guy
Movie • 1930
Detective Burke
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
And the Angels Sing
Movie • 1944
Potatoes
Double Trouble
Movie • 1915
Judge Blodgett
Danger on the Air
Movie • 1938
Hotel Doorman (Uncredited)
Forty Naughty Girls
Movie • 1937
Detective Casey
Serenade
Movie • 1921
Zambrano
Crashing Hollywood
Movie • 1938
Al
Petticoat Larceny
Movie • 1943
Pinky
Gobs of Trouble
Movie • 1935
See America Thirst
Movie • 1930
'Shivering' Smith
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Movie • 1919
American General (uncredited)
Hold 'Em Yale
Movie • 1928
Detective
Big News
Movie • 1929
Officer Ryan
Her Torpedoed Love
Movie • 1917
Roy Mulligan the Hobo / The False Minister
None But the Brave
Movie • 1928
Noah
Behind the Front
Movie • 1926
Sergeant
We're in the Navy Now
Movie • 1926
Sailor Percival Scruggs
Living on Love
Movie • 1937
Pete Ryan
Dangerous Years
Movie • 1947
Mr. Adamson
The Big Shot
Movie • 1937
Bugs
Flying High
Movie • 1931
Jokester with Firecrackers (uncredited)
Dixie
Movie • 1943
Barkeeper (uncredited)
Hip Zip Hooray
Movie • 1933
The Prisoner
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Movie • 1928
Property Man
Old Man Rhythm
Movie • 1935
Campus Guard
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Movie • 1937
Jim Magooney
Gum Shoes
Movie • 1935
Millionaire Playboy
Movie • 1940
Tom Murphy
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1932
Recruiting Sergeant
The Long Shot
Movie • 1939
Mike Claurens
Horse Heir
Movie • 1935
These Glamour Girls
Movie • 1939
Joy Lane Manager (uncredited)
Sporting Blood
Movie • 1940
Grantly
Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
Movie • 1941
Tom
Fraidy Cat
Movie • 1951
I. Katchum (uncredited)
Hook a Crook
Movie • 1955
I. Katchum (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jiggers, My Wife
Movie • 1946
Joe
Where the Pest Begins
Movie • 1945
Jonathan Batts
Society Mugs
Movie • 1946
Tom
Sailors on Leave
Movie • 1941
Dugan
Hit Parade of 1943
Movie • 1943
Westinghouse
The Country Doctor
Movie • 1936
Logger (uncredited)
The Judge Steps Out
Movie • 1947
Jack (Court Receptionist) (uncredited)
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Bouncer at Pago Pago
His Bitter Pill
Movie • 1916
Dan's Henchman
Take It Big
Movie • 1944
Moving Man (uncredited)
Fly Away Baby
Movie • 1937
Gahagan
The Girl in the Case
Movie • 1944
Watchman (uncredited)
Dixie Dugan
Movie • 1943
Sergeant (uncredited)
The Best Bad Man
Movie • 1925
Dan Ellis
Some Like It Hot
Movie • 1959
Bouncer (uncredited)
Taxi, Mister
Movie • 1943
Kennedy
Stage Door Canteen
Movie • 1943
Tom Kennedy
The Dancing Millionaire
Movie • 1934
Crusher McGee
Man Alive
Movie • 1945
Bartender (uncredited)
The Awful Sleuth
Movie • 1951
Pinky
An Angel from Texas
Movie • 1940
Chopper
The Better 'Ole
Movie • 1926
The Blacksmith (uncredited)
Kismet
Movie • 1920
Kutayt
Caught
Movie • 1931
Jard Harmon
Hollywood Party
Movie • 1934
Beavers (uncredited)
Moonlight and Cactus
Movie • 1944
Lucky
Huddle
Movie • 1932
Moving Man (uncredited)
Marked Money
Movie • 1928
Bill Clemons
Flowing Gold
Movie • 1940
Petunia
Night After Night
Movie • 1932
Tom
Alias The Deacon
Movie • 1927
Bull Moran
Making the Headlines
Movie • 1938
Police Sergeant Handley
Grandma's Buoys
Movie • 1936
Tom
Pop Always Pays
Movie • 1940
Murphy
True to Life
Movie • 1943
Customer (uncredited)
Poppy
Movie • 1936
Hot Dog Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
Iron Man
Movie • 1931
Bartender (uncredited)
Skyscraper Souls
Movie • 1932
Masseur
Thunder in the Pines
Movie • 1948
Josh, the Station Master
Gold Fever
Movie • 1952
Big Tom
Midnight Blunders
Movie • 1936
Tom
Down to Their Last Yacht
Movie • 1934
Joe 'Uncle Ed' Schultz (uncredited)
Curtain Call
Movie • 1940
Masseur
Square Dance Jubilee
Movie • 1949
Bartender Tom
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
Movie • 1947
Officer Murphy
Glad Rag Doll
Movie • 1929
Manager
Fiddling Around
Movie • 1938
Tom Kennedy
Halfway to Hollywood
Movie • 1938
Tom
Just Speeding
Movie • 1936
Stage Frights
Movie • 1935
Free Rent
Movie • 1936
Mr. Kennedy
Calling All Curtains
Movie • 1937
Bury the Hatchet
Movie • 1937
Tom
The Burning Cross
Movie • 1947
Police Station Sergeant
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Movie • 1940
Cabbie
Young as You Feel
Movie • 1931
Colorado Detective
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Gagahan (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mighty McGurk
Movie • 1947
Bruiser (uncredited)
Slave Ship
Movie • 1937
Bartender
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Movie • 1941
Sheriff Judson
Angels with Broken Wings
Movie • 1941
Gus
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Movie • 1942
Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender
Cross Fire
Movie • 1933
French Bouncer (uncredited)
Senorita
Movie • 1927
Oliveros Gaucho (uncredited)
The Mutineers
Movie • 1949
Butch
So's Your Uncle
Movie • 1943
Cop
Man of the Forest
Movie • 1933
Sheriff Blake
Fish Feathers
Movie • 1932
The Paleface
Movie • 1948
Bartender
If I Had a Million
Movie • 1932
Joe - Carnival Bouncer (uncredited)
Crime Ring
Movie • 1938
Dummy
Day of Reckoning
Movie • 1933
Furniture Mover
The Big Game
Movie • 1936
Fan in Stands
Sunless Sunday
Movie • 1921
She Had to Eat
Movie • 1937
Pete
Monkey Business
Movie • 1931
Gibson
Jinx Money
Movie • 1948
Officer Rooney
Thieves Fall Out
Movie • 1941
Cabbie
Wedtime Stories
Movie • 1943
House Detective
Thirst
Movie • 1917
Man in Employment Agency (uncredited)
The Gang Buster
Movie • 1931
'Gopher' Brant
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Movie • 1944
Police Detective Lt. Kerrigan
The Scarf
Movie • 1951
Asylum Inmate
Radio Rampage
Movie • 1944
Mr. Thompson
Blonde Alibi
Movie • 1946
Policeman Clancy (Uncredited)
Havana Rose
Movie • 1951
House Detective
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Movie • 1948
Lefty
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
Slugs
Pardon My Stripes
Movie • 1942
Casino
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Movie • 1927
Lazarus
Lighthouse Love
Movie • 1932
The Marine Sergeant
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Movie • 1945
The Hat Box Mystery
Movie • 1947
Policeman Murphy
Armored Car
Movie • 1937
Tiny
The Man Who Walked Alone
Movie • 1945
Officer #1
Married Before Breakfast
Movie • 1937
Mr. Baglipp
Penthouse
Movie • 1933
Joe (uncredited)
The Yankee Señor
Movie • 1926
Luke Martin
Lighthouse Love
Movie • 1932
The Marine Sergeant
Motor Maniacs
Movie • 1946
Mother's Suitor
Strictly Dynamite
Movie • 1934
Junior
The Egg
Movie • 1922
The Boss
Walk Like a Dragon
Movie • 1960
Jethro the Bartender
Trouble Preferred
Movie • 1948
Night Watchman (uncredited)
Her First Kiss
Movie • 1919
Cupid's Day Off
Movie • 1919
Gambling House Operator
Wives Never Know
Movie • 1936
Bartender (uncredited)
Two Crooks
Movie • 1917
The Detective
Broadway
Movie • 1942
Kerry (uncredited)
Public Pigeon No. 1
Movie • 1957
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Our Leading Citizen
Movie • 1922
Boots
Happy Days
Movie • 1929
Doorman (uncredited)
The Devil Is Driving
Movie • 1932
Fritz (uncredited)
A Schoolhouse Scandal
Movie • 1919
If You Believe It, It's So
Movie • 1922
Bartender
The Island of Intrigue
Movie • 1919
Jackson, the butler
Skirts
Movie • 1921
The Shannons of Broadway
Movie • 1929
Burt
The Poor Simp
Movie • 1920
Jim Donnelly
The Flaming Hour
Movie • 1922
Ben
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
Movie • 1929
Crook
Love Over Night
Movie • 1928
Detective
Sir Lumberjack
Movie • 1926
Bill Blake
Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Collector
Maverick
TV • 1957
Barkeep (uncredited)
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Townsman (uncredited)
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Townsman (uncredited)
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Night Watchman (uncredited)
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Townsman (uncredited)
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Barfly (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Cantina Barfly (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Barfly (uncredited)
Maverick
TV • 1957
Poker Player (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Townsman / Barfly (uncredited)
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Frank
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Doc's Henchman
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Townsman (uncredited)
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Bit Part (uncredited)
The Texan
TV • 1958
Bartender (uncredited)
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Man Carrying Costello
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Juror (uncredited)
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Barfly (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Bartender (uncredited)
Topper
TV • 1953
Kewpie
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Convict (uncredited)
My Favorite Martian
TV • 1963
Mike
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Townsman (uncredited)