Cast
Tom Kennedy
Acting
Cast
Tom Kennedy
Known for
Acting
Born
1885-07-14
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1965-10-06
Also known as Thomas A. Kennedy, Thomas Kennedy, Thomas Aloyisus Kennedy
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.
★8.1
MOVIE1959
Some Like It Hot
as Bouncer (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Traffic Cop (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1928
The Cop
as Sergeant Coughlin
MOVIE1932
Lighthouse Love
as The Marine Sergeant
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Fiddling Around
as Tom Kennedy
★6.5
MOVIE1953
Spooks!
as Mr. Hyde
★6.7
MOVIE1947
Magic Town
as Moving Man (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Motor Maniacs
as Mother's Suitor
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Phoney Cronies
as Tom
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Society Mugs
as Tom
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Wife Savers
as General Lavoris
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Serenade
as Zambrano
★9.0
MOVIE1927
Silver Valley
as 'Hayfever' Hawkins
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Havana Rose
as House Detective
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Petticoat Larceny
as Pinky
★5.9
MOVIE1933
Blondie Johnson
as Hype (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Home Work
★4.5
MOVIE1940
Millionaire Playboy
as Tom Murphy
★10.0
MOVIETBA
Home Work
as Repairman
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Pretty Dolly
as Gus
★4.8
MOVIE1946
Blonde Alibi
as Policeman Clancy (Uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Just Speeding
★10.0
MOVIE1944
Radio Rampage
as Mr. Thompson
★5.9
MOVIE1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
as Gahagan
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Where the Pest Begins
as Jonathan Batts
★8.0
MOVIE1951
Let's Go Navy!
as Officer Donovan
★7.1
MOVIE1937
Wise Girl
as Detective
★8.0
MOVIE1927
Senorita
as Oliveros Gaucho (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1943
Dixie
as Barkeeper (uncredited)
MOVIE1935
Horse Heir
★9.0
MOVIE1934
Cracked Shots
as Tom 'Pinky' Kennedy
★6.1
MOVIE1948
The Paleface
as Bartender
★10.0
MOVIE1943
Here Comes Elmer
as Johnson
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Triple Trouble
as Third Convict Calling Out from Cell
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Halfway to Hollywood
as Tom
★7.3
MOVIE1944
And the Angels Sing
as Potatoes
MOVIE1934
The Dancing Millionaire
as Crusher McGee
★7.3
MOVIE1940
Remember the Night
as 'Fat' Mike
★6.1
MOVIE1950
Riding High
as Racetrack Mug (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1933
42nd Street
as Slim Murphy (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1926
Sir Lumberjack
as Bill Blake
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Monkey Business
as Gibson
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Man of the Forest
as Sheriff Blake
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Huddle
as Moving Man (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1932
If I Had a Million
as Joe - Carnival Bouncer (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1921
Skirts
★6.9
MOVIE1944
The Princess and the Pirate
as Alonzo
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Hit Parade of 1943
as Westinghouse
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Skyscraper Souls
as Masseur
★5.7
MOVIE1938
Go Chase Yourself
as Icebox
MOVIE1931
How Comedies Are Born
as Tom
★10.0
MOVIE1951
Fraidy Cat
as I. Katchum (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1946
The Kid from Brooklyn
as Referee #1 (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Calling All Curtains
★6.8
MOVIE1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
as Recruiting Sergeant
★6.3
MOVIE1930
The Fall Guy
as Detective Burke
★6.3
MOVIE1943
Stage Door Canteen
as Tom Kennedy
★5.6
MOVIE1937
Forty Naughty Girls
as Detective Casey
★6.3
MOVIE1929
Happy Days
as Doorman (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Loose Loot
as Joe
★5.0
MOVIE1917
Her Torpedoed Love
as Roy Mulligan the Hobo / The False Minister
★5.9
MOVIE1933
She Done Him Wrong
as Big Bill - Bartender (uncredited)
MOVIE1933
Suits to Nuts
as Client
★5.8
MOVIE1947
The Pretender
as Fingers Murdock
★5.1
MOVIE1937
Slave Ship
as Bartender
★8.0
MOVIE1941
The Great Swindle
as Capper Smith
★5.8
MOVIE1938
Breakdowns of 1938
as Gagahan (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE1934
Unlucky Strike
★6.0
MOVIE1943
So's Your Uncle
as Cop
★5.7
MOVIE1934
Hollywood Party
as Beavers (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1929
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
as Crook
★7.0
MOVIE1947
The Burning Cross
as Police Station Sergeant
★10.0
MOVIE1955
Hook a Crook
as I. Katchum (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Broadway
as Kerry (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Swing It, Sailor!
as Policeman
★5.2
MOVIE1932
The Crooked Circle
as Mike, the policeman
★6.3
MOVIE1932
Night After Night
as Tom
★5.9
MOVIE1939
These Glamour Girls
as Joy Lane Manager (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1920
The Poor Simp
as Jim Donnelly
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Pop Always Pays
as Murphy
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Flowing Gold
as Petunia
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Making the Headlines
as Police Sergeant Handley
★5.3
MOVIE1935
She Couldn't Take It
as Slugs
★6.2
MOVIE1926
Mantrap
as Curly Evans
★5.8
MOVIE1931
Flying High
as Jokester with Firecrackers (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Sock Me to Sleep
as Battling McGee
★9.0
MOVIE1932
Fish Feathers
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Love Over Night
as Detective
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Butch Minds the Baby
as Philly the Weeper
★5.1
MOVIE1916
His Bitter Pill
as Dan's Henchman
★6.0
MOVIE1965
The Bounty Killer
as Waiter
★6.4
MOVIE1937
Smart Blonde
as Gahagan
★5.4
MOVIE1942
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
as Joe the Villa Luigi Bartender
★9.0
MOVIE1944
Take It Big
as Moving Man (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1937
She Had to Eat
as Pete
★8.0
MOVIE1929
The Shannons of Broadway
as Burt
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Bury the Hatchet
as Tom
MOVIE1936
Grandma's Buoys
as Tom
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Jiggers, My Wife
as Joe
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Pardon My Stripes
as Casino
★8.3
MOVIE1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1947
The Mighty McGurk
as Bruiser (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Crashing Hollywood
as Al
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Voice of the Whistler
as Ferdinand / Hammerlock
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Poppy
as Hot Dog Stand Proprietor (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1943
True to Life
as Customer (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1932
The Devil Is Driving
as Fritz (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1947
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Officer Murphy
★5.8
MOVIE1938
Crime Ring
as Dummy
★8.0
MOVIE1919
The Island of Intrigue
as Jackson, the butler
★6.8
MOVIE1933
Penthouse
as Joe (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1946
So's Your Antenna
★6.1
MOVIE1932
Lawyer Man
as Jake - the Ice Man (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1944
Moonlight and Cactus
as Lucky
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Dangerous Years
as Mr. Adamson
★8.0
MOVIE1927
The Mysterious Rider
as Lem Spooner
★7.0
MOVIE1922
The Flaming Hour
as Ben
★3.0
MOVIE1932
The Boudoir Butler
as Dr. Quigley - Slipper's Accomplice
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Old Man Rhythm
as Campus Guard
★5.7
MOVIE1951
The Scarf
as Asylum Inmate
★6.0
MOVIE2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
as Self (archive footage)
★3.4
MOVIE1952
Invasion, U.S.A.
as Tim, Bartender
★5.3
MOVIE1937
The Adventurous Blonde
as Detective Gahagan
★10.0
MOVIE1943
Cutie on Duty
as Rocky
★4.5
MOVIE1947
The Hat Box Mystery
as Policeman Murphy
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Blondie's Blessed Event
as Motorcycle Cop Who Names The Baby 'Cookie' (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1933
Hip Zip Hooray
as The Prisoner
★7.5
MOVIE1939
The Day the Bookies Wept
as Pinky Brophy
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Society Lawyer
as Alf
★5.9
MOVIE1939
Torchy Runs for Mayor
as Gahagan
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Fly Away Baby
as Gahagan
★6.5
MOVIE1936
The Country Doctor
as Logger (uncredited)
★5.1
MOVIE1933
Day of Reckoning
as Furniture Mover
★6.8
MOVIE1939
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Det. Sgt. Gahagan
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Down to Their Last Yacht
as Joe 'Uncle Ed' Schultz (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Thieves Fall Out
as Cabbie
★6.5
MOVIE1918
Mickey
as Tom Rawlings
★6.3
MOVIE1935
Oh, My Nerves
★6.8
MOVIE1947
The Judge Steps Out
as Jack (Court Receptionist) (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1939
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
as Gahagan
★5.8
MOVIE1938
Torchy Blane in Panama
as Detective Gahagan
★10.0
MOVIE1941
Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
as Tom
★6.8
MOVIE1937
Varsity Show
as Policeman (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1922
Full o' Pep
★6.3
MOVIE1960
Walk Like a Dragon
as Jethro the Bartender
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Free Rent
as Mr. Kennedy
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Gum Shoes
★6.6
MOVIE1936
The Big Game
as Fan in Stands
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Campus Rhythm
as Police Sergeant
★10.0
MOVIE1919
Cupid's Day Off
as Gambling House Operator
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Glad Rag Doll
as Manager
★6.5
MOVIE1937
Marry the Girl
as Jasper
★8.0
MOVIE1922
If You Believe It, It's So
as Bartender
★5.3
MOVIE1940
An Angel from Texas
as Chopper
★6.4
MOVIE1938
Danger on the Air
as Hotel Doorman (Uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1926
Born to the West
as Dinkey Hooley
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Girls! Girls! Girls!
as Police Detective Lt. Kerrigan
MOVIE1917
Whose Baby?
as The Fake Minister
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Blondes at Work
as Gahagan
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Young as You Feel
as Colorado Detective
★6.3
MOVIE1957
Public Pigeon No. 1
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE1948
Thunder in the Pines
as Josh, the Station Master
★4.5
MOVIE1936
Hollywood Boulevard
as Bouncer at Pago Pago
★5.1
MOVIE1935
The Bride Comes Home
as Husky Thug at Party (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1948
Jinx Money
as Officer Rooney
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Wives Never Know
as Bartender (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1948
Devil's Cargo
as Naga, Mug Who Tails Delgado
★6.5
MOVIE1937
The Big Shot
as Bugs
★6.5
MOVIE1938
He Couldn't Say No
as Dimples
★5.7
MOVIE1931
Iron Man
as Bartender (uncredited)
★4.5
MOVIE1929
Big News
as Officer Ryan
★4.6
MOVIE1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
as Sheriff Judson
★7.5
MOVIE1931
Caught
as Jard Harmon
★5.9
MOVIE1945
The Man Who Walked Alone
as Officer #1
★5.8
MOVIE1943
Ladies' Day
as Dugan
★7.2
MOVIE1937
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
as Jim Magooney
★7.0
MOVIE1927
Ham and Eggs at the Front
as Lazarus
★5.0
MOVIE1949
Square Dance Jubilee
as Bartender Tom
★8.0
MOVIE1941
Sailors on Leave
as Dugan
★5.6
MOVIE1931
It Pays to Advertise
as Perkins
★7.3
MOVIE1940
Curtain Call
as Masseur
★7.0
MOVIE1949
The Mutineers
as Butch
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Quiet, Please
as Gorilla Stand-In Max Imhof
★4.2
MOVIE1940
Sporting Blood
as Grantly
★5.7
MOVIE1926
The Better 'Ole
as The Blacksmith (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1945
Man Alive
as Bartender (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1941
Angels with Broken Wings
as Gus
★6.0
MOVIE1939
The Long Shot
as Mike Claurens
★6.2
MOVIE1926
Behind the Front
as Sergeant
★6.2
MOVIE1931
The Gang Buster
as 'Gopher' Brant
★10.0
MOVIE1951
The Awful Sleuth
as Pinky
★4.2
MOVIE1943
Taxi, Mister
as Kennedy
★5.0
MOVIE1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Cabbie
★6.0
MOVIE1917
Thirst
as Man in Employment Agency (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1945
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
★7.0
MOVIE1930
See America Thirst
as 'Shivering' Smith
★5.6
MOVIE1937
Armored Car
as Tiny
MOVIE1917
The Pullman Bride
as Oklahoma Pete - a Bandit
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Dixie Dugan
as Sergeant (uncredited)
★3.5
MOVIE1934
Odor in the Court
as Plug Hardy
★10.0
MOVIE1937
New News
as Tom Kennedy
★6.6
MOVIE1937
Behind The Headlines
as Tiny
★9.0
MOVIE1925
The Best Bad Man
as Dan Ellis
★9.0
MOVIE1927
Alias The Deacon
as Bull Moran
★7.0
MOVIE1944
The Town Went Wild
as Policeman
★6.6
MOVIE1944
The Girl in the Case
as Watchman (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1922
Our Leading Citizen
as Boots
★5.7
MOVIE1919
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as American General (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1928
None But the Brave
as Noah
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Strictly Dynamite
as Junior
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Married Before Breakfast
as Mr. Baglipp
★8.0
MOVIE1934
In the Devildog House
as Jennie's Husband
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Cross Fire
as French Bouncer (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1948
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
as Lefty
★9.0
MOVIE1943
Wedtime Stories
as House Detective
★6.7
MOVIE1928
Hold 'Em Yale
as Detective
★6.0
MOVIE1948
Trouble Preferred
as Night Watchman (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1926
We're in the Navy Now
as Sailor Percival Scruggs
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Gold Fever
as Big Tom
★4.5
MOVIE1925
As Man Desires
as Gorilla Bagsley
★6.1
MOVIE1937
Living on Love
as Pete Ryan
★6.0
MOVIE1919
Her First Kiss
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Loving Lies
as Captain Lindstrom
★10.0
MOVIE1926
The Yankee Señor
as Luke Martin
★10.0
MOVIE1928
Marked Money
as Bill Clemons
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Covered Trailer
as Otto
MOVIE1917
Two Crooks
as The Detective
★5.7
MOVIE1915
Double Trouble
as Judge Blodgett
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Stage Frights
★10.0
MOVIE1926
Man of the Forest
as Sheriff
MOVIE1919
A Schoolhouse Scandal
★3.7
MOVIE1935
Alibi Bye Bye
as Snoops, the house dick
MOVIE1915
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
as Man Who Discovers Hat
MOVIE1934
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
as The Burglar
★6.5
MOVIE1928
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Property Man
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Gobs of Trouble
MOVIE1917
That Night
as The Proprietor's Henchman
MOVIE1932
The Promoter
as Burke
MOVIE1917
The Late Lamented
as The Model's Brother
★8.0
MOVIE1941
The Officer and the Lady
as Bumps O'Neil
★5.0
MOVIE1936
Midnight Blunders
as Tom
MOVIE1922
The Speeder
★8.3
MOVIE1920
Kismet
as Kutayt
★6.6
MOVIE1922
The Egg
as The Boss
★8.0
MOVIE1927
Fireman, Save My Child
as Capt. Kennedy
★7.0
MOVIE1922
The Flirt
as Sam Fenton
★8.0
MOVIE1941
Man-I-Cured
as House Detective, Maizie's Boy Friend
MOVIE1935
Raised and Called
MOVIE1921