. . . . . . . . Where Are They Now? . . . . . . . .

Hello fans,

George Kennedy is a legendary actor known for big
movie series like Airport and Naked Gun. However, we
haven't heard too much from him in recent years. What
is he up to now? Find out here!

Take care,
Melissa

Give your back some support, reduce stress & ease the tension away
with the Airflow Back Support Massage Pad. Get 2 for $9.98 (75% off)
http://pd.gophercentral.com/u/1229/c/186/a/6840


View Past Issues: http://www.celebritynooz.com/watn.html

----

--DEAD OR ALIVE?

See if you know if the following celebrities have had a
visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Richard Roundtree: Starred as the one-and-only Shaft in
the movie "Shaft"

Don Siegel: Director, "Madigan", "Dirty Harry", "Telefon",
"Escape from Alcatraz"

Chad Everett: Starred as Dr. Joe Gannon in the TV series
"Medical Center"

(Answer at the bottom)

*

George Kennedy
http://www.celebritynooz.com/george_kennedy.aspx

BIRTH DATE: February 18, 1925, New York City, New York


CLAIM TO FAME: Some of his best-known roles include the
convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke, airline troubleshooter
Joe Patroni in the Airport movie series, and as Captain Ed
Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.


FAMILY LIFE: He is married to Joan McCarthy and has a
daughter, Shaunna.


INFO: Kennedy was born into a show business family, and
made his stage debut at the age of two in a touring company
of Bringing up Father.

He took a long hiatus from acting to join the military
during World War II, and ended up spending 16 years in the
army.

A back injury in the late 1950s forced him to leave the
military and rejoin the world of acting. He won the role
of a military advisor on the Sergeant Bilko TV series.

He didn't have much luck in earlier films he made, but
found success with his Academy Award win for his
portrayal of Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Cool Hand Luke was his big break, and led to many more box-
office hits, including the Airport series and the comedic
Naked Gun movies.

On TV, Kennedy starred in the weekly series Sarge (1971)
and The Blue Knight (1978), and was seen as President
Warren G. Harding in the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the
White House.

During the 1990s, he was a commercial spokesman for a
series of breath-freshener advertisements. He has also
been the voice of L.B. Mammoth in the animated musical
Cats Don't Dance (1997), and as one of the toys-gone-bad
in Small Soldiers (1998).

Continued below....

*


TRIVIA: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for
his contributions to motion pictures.

His father, George Harris Kennedy, a musician and orchestra
leader, died when Kennedy was four years old.

Was raised by his mother, Helen A. (née Kieselbach), a
ballet dancer.

He and his wife adopted their granddaughter in 1998, after
their daughter was ruled unfit.


WHERE IS HE NOW: After working on several independent
films, Kennedy made a television comeback in 2003 in the
soap opera The Young and the Restless, playing the
character Albert Miller, the biological father to legendary
character Victor Newman. He made a cameo appearance in the
2005 film Don't Come Knocking. He currently resides in
Eagle, Idaho with his wife.


WRITE TO GEORGE KENNEDY:
George Kennedy
c/o SFM
1122 S. Robertson Blvd., Suite 15
Los Angeles, CA 90035


Video Clips of George Kennedy
http://www.evtv1.com/searchevtv.aspx?s=george%20kennedy

*


CREDITS:
2011 Another Happy Day

2003-2010 The Young and the Restless (TV series)...Albert Miller / Albert

2010 Mad Mad Wagon Party...JB Scotch

2010 Six Days in Paradise...Monty Crenshaw

2008 The Man Who Came Back...Judge Duke

2007 Sands of Oblivion (TV movie)...John Tevis

2005 Don't Come Knocking...Director

2005 Truce...Dr. Peter Gannon

2005 Three Bad Men...Ed Fiske

2004 The Devil's Due at Midnight (video short)...Professor Zebediah Jones

2003 Monster Makers (TV movie)...Dexter Brisbane

2003 View from the Top...Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)

1998 Men in White (TV movie)...General Vice

1998 Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (video)...Grandpa

1998 Small Soldiers...Brick Bazooka (voice)

1998 Dallas: War of the Ewings (TV movie)...Carter McKay

1997 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (TV series)...Bones Duvalier
Oh, Can I Go Now?!

1997 Cats Don't Dance...L.B. Mammoth (voice)

1997 Bayou Ghost...Officer Lowe

1996 Santo Bugito (TV series)...Ralph

1996 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (TV series)...General Axton
DNA Doomsday

1996 Dallas: J.R. Returns (TV movie)...Carter McKay

1995 Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (TV series)...Movie Director
In the Nam of the Father

1995 The Commish (TV series)...Alan Scali
The Golden Years

1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult...Ed Hocken

1994 Lonesome Dove: The Series (TV series)...Judge J.T. 'Rope' Calder
Judgement Day (1994)

1994 River of Stone

1992 Distant Justice...Tom Bradfield

1992 Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (TV movie)...Father Dave

1991 Intensive Care...Dr. Bruckner

1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear...Det. Captain Ed Hocken

1991/I Driving Me Crazy...John McCready

1988-1991 Dallas (TV series)...Carter McKay

1991 Hangfire...Warden E. Barles

1990 Good Cops, Bad Cops (TV movie)...Kirkland

1990 Hired to Kill...Thomas

1990 Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist

1990 Brain Dead...Vance

1989 Ministry of Vengeance...Rev. Hughes

1989 Esmeralda Bay...Wilson

1989 The Terror Within...Hal

1988 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!...Ed Hocken

1988 Uninvited (video)...Mike Harvey

1988 Top Line...Heinrich Holzmann

1988 Death Street USA...Sheriff Hanks

1988 Demonwarp...Bill Crafton

1988 Counterforce...Vince Colby

1988 Born to Race...Vincent Duplain

1988 What Price Victory (TV movie)...Big Buck Brayton

1987 The Gunfighters (TV movie)...Deke Turner

1987 Creepshow 2...Ray Spruce (segment "Old Chief Wood'nhead")

1987 Private Road: No Trespassing (video)...Sam Milshaw

1987 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues (TV movie)...Gen. Nelson Miles

1986 Liberty (TV movie)...Seamus Reilly

1986 Rigged

1986 The Delta Force...Father O'Malley

1985 Savage Dawn...Tick Rand

1985 Radioactive Dreams...Spade Chandler

1985 International Airport (TV movie)...Rudy Van Leuven

1985 Half Nelson (TV movie)

1984 The Love Boat (TV series)...Erik Larsen
Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat: Part 1
Vicki and the Fugitive/Lady in the Window/Stolen Years/Dutch Treat: Part 2

1984 Bolero...Cotton

1984 The Jesse Owens Story (TV movie)...Charles 'Charley' Riley

1984 A Rare Breed...Nathan Hill

1984 Chattanooga Choo Choo...Bert

1983 Fantasy Island (TV series)...Adam Cobb
God Child/Curtain Call

1982 Wacko...Mr. Doctor Graves

1981 Just Before Dawn...Roy McLean

1981 The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire (TV movie)...Brakus

1980 Hotwire...Farley & Harley Fontenot

1980 Day of Resurrection...Admiral Conway

1980 Death Ship...Captain Ashland

1979 Steel...Big Lew Cassidy

1979 The Concorde... Airport '79...Capt. Joe Patroni

1979 Never Say Never (TV movie)...Harry Walter

1979 The Double McGuffin...Chief Talasek

1979 Backstairs at the White House (TV mini-series)...President Warren G. Harding

1979 Search and Destroy...Anthony Fusqua

1978 Brass Target...Gen. George S. Patton

1978 Death on the Nile...Andrew Pennington

1978 Mean Dog Blues...Captain Omar Kinsman

1977 Ningen no shômei...Ken Shuftan

1977 Airport '77...Joe Patroni

1975-1976 The Blue Knight (TV series)...Bumper Morgan / William A. 'Bumper' Morgan

1975 The 'Human' Factor...John Kinsdale

1975 The Eiger Sanction...Ben Bowman

1974 Earthquake...Slade

1974 Airport 1975...Joe Patroni

1974 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot...Red Leary

1974 A Cry in the Wilderness (TV movie)...Sam Hadley

1974 Sonic Boom (short)

1973 Deliver Us from Evil (TV movie)...Walter 'Cowboy' McAdams

1973 Cahill U.S. Marshal...Fraser

1973 Lost Horizon...Sam Cornelius

1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV movie)...Brad Wilkes

1971-1972 Sarge (TV series)...Father Samuel Cavanaugh / Sarge Swanson

1971 Ironside (TV series)...Sarge Swanson
The Priest Killer

1971 Fools' Parade...'Doc' Council

1970 Dirty Dingus Magee...Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill

1970 Zigzag...Paul R. Cameron

1970 Airport...Joe Patroni

1970 ...tick... tick... tick...John Little

1969 Gaily, Gaily...Johanson

1969 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys...McKay

1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven...Chris

1968 The Boston Strangler...Det. Phil DiNatale

1968 The Pink Jungle...Sammy Ryderbeit

1968 The Legend of Lylah Clare...Matt Burke (uncredited)

1968 Bandolero!...Sheriff July Johnson

1967 Cool Hand Luke...Dragline

1967 Tarzan (TV series)...Crandell
Thief Catcher

1967 The Dirty Dozen...Major Max Armbruster

1967 Hurry Sundown...Sheriff Coombs

1967 The Ballad of Josie...Arch Ogden

1964-1966 The Virginian (TV series)...Huck Harkness / Jack Marshman / Tom 'Bear' Suchette

1963-1966 Dr. Kildare (TV series)...Sgt Hensley / Joe Cramer

1960-1966 Gunsmoke (TV series)...Bayloe / Ben Payson / Cyrus /

1966 The Big Valley (TV series)...Jack Thatcher
Barbary Red

1966 The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)...Blodgett
Return to Lawrence (1966)

1965 Laredo (TV series)...Jess Moran
Pride of the Rangers

1965 The Flight of the Phoenix...Bellamy

1965 A Man Called Shenandoah (TV series)...Mitchell Canady
A Special Talent for Killing

1965 Daniel Boone (TV series)...Zach Morgan
A Rope for Mingo

1965 The Sons of Katie Elder...Curley

1965 Shenandoah...Col. Fairchild

1965 Mirage...Willard

1965 In Harm's Way...Col. Gregory

1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte...Foreman

1964 The Rogues (TV series)...Major Vyx
The Computer Goes West

1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series)...George Martin
Misadventure

1964 The Silent Witness...Gus Jordan

1961-1964 Bonanza (TV series)...Peter Long / Waldo Watson

1964 See How They Run (TV movie)...Rudy

1964 Island of the Blue Dolphins...Aleut Captain

1964 McHale's Navy...Henri Le Clerc

1963-1964 McHale's Navy (TV series)...Big Frenchy

1964 The Great Adventure (TV series)...Sergeant Mulduney
Rodger Young

1964 Strait-Jacket...Leo Krause

1963 The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)
The Simple Life

1963 Charade...Herman Scobie

1963 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV series)...Angus
The Day of the Long Night

1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series)...Der
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1963 Grindl (TV series)...Lefty
Grindl and the Counterfeiters

1963 The Andy Griffith Show (TV series)...State Police Detective
The Big House

1963 Perry Mason (TV series)...George Spangler
The Case of the Greek Goddess

1963 The Man from the Diners' Club...George

1962-1963 Alcoa Premiere (TV series)...Jake / Lincoln

1960-1963 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV series)...Big Jim / Brother Grace / Deke / ?

1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV series)...Armstrong
The Night Was Six Years Long

1962 Going My Way (TV series)...Mike
A Man for Mary

1962 Lonely Are the Brave...Deputy Sheriff Gutierrez

1962 Thriller (TV series)...John Paterson
The Innocent Bystanders

1962 Outlaws (TV series)...Duke Jones
Farewell Performance (1962) ? Duke Jones

1961-1962 The Tall Man (TV series)...Hyram / Jake Newton

1962 Tales of Wells Fargo (TV series)...Hawk
Assignment in Gloribee

1962 Death Valley Days (TV series)...Steamboat Sully
Miracle at Whiskey Gulch

1962 Rawhide (TV series)...George Wales
The Peddler

1961 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come...Nathan Dillon

1961 The Untouchables (TV series)...Birdie
The King of Champagne

1961 The Red Skelton Hour (TV series)...Ship's Purser
Freddie's Shipwreck

1961 Bat Masterson (TV series)...Sheriff Zeke Armitage
The Fourth Man

1961 The Asphalt Jungle (TV series)...Det. Kolb / Detective Kolb

1961 Gunslinger (TV series)...Sheriff
Border Incident

1961 The Case of the Dangerous Robin (TV series)
Jungle Quest (1961)

1961 Klondike (TV series)...Ira Shallop
Swing Your Partner

1961 Surfside 6 (TV series)...Gabe Buchanan
Heels over Head

1960 Riverboat (TV series)...Gunner Slagle
River Champion

1960 Route 66 (TV series)...Thad Skinner
Black November

1960 Spartacus...Rebel Soldier (uncredited)

1960 Maverick (TV series)...Deputy Jones
Hadley's Hunters

1960 Peter Gunn (TV series)...Karl
The Crossbow

1960 Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series)...Hallway Ranch Hand
The Inheritance

1960 Laramie (TV series)
Duel at Alta Mesa (1960)

1960 Lawman (TV series)...Burt
To Capture the West

1960 Shotgun Slade (TV series)...Tex
The Spanish Box

1959 The Deputy (TV series)...Tex
The Big Four

1959 Cheyenne (TV series)...Lee Nelson
Prisoner of Moon Mesa

1959 Colt .45 (TV series)...Hank
The Rival Gun

1956-1959 The Phil Silvers Show (TV series)...MP / MP Sgt. Kennedy


To see Then & Now pictures of George Kennedy, visit:
http://www.celebritynooz.com/george_kennedy.aspx


*

--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE

Richard Roundtree - ALIVE
Born: 07/09/1942

Don Siegel - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 10/26/1912 Died: 04/20/1991

Chad Everett - ALIVE
Born: 06/11/1936

*


WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...

5/19
Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.
Austin Box, 22, American football player.
Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981?
1982; 1982?1987) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973?
1977), after short illness.
Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning
(1956) footballer.

5/18
John Fortino, 61, Italian-Canadian businessman, founder of
the Fortinos supermarket chain, cancer.
Frank L. Lacy, 87, American blues and jazz guitarist.
Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea)
Randall Wreghitt, 55, American theatrical producer, carbon
monoxide poisoning.

5/17
Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.
Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning
(1936) hockey player.
James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of
Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966?1970).
Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball
player (Minnesota Twins), esophageal cancer.
Gregory Lewis, 57, American journalist (Miami Sun-
Sentinel), cancer.

5/16
Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold-medal winning
(1960) wrestler, traffic accident.
Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player.
Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes),
son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
David Parry, 76, American football official, co-ordinater
of NCAA officials, Parkinson's Disease.
Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson),
kidney cancer.
James Warren, 74, American NHRA racer.

***********************************************************