Tom Kennedy
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 (267 Appearances)
Home Work
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
The Bounty Killer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
My Favorite Martian
Walk Like a Dragon
Bonanza
Some Like It Hot
Rawhide
77 Sunset Strip
The Rifleman
The Texan
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Maverick
Perry Mason
Sugarfoot
Have Gun, Will Travel
Public Pigeon No. 1
Conflict
Hey, Jeannie!
Hook a Crook
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Topper
Spooks!
Loose Loot
Invasion, U.S.A.
The Abbott and Costello Show
The Ford Television Theatre
Gold Fever
Fraidy Cat
Havana Rose
Boston Blackie
Let's Go Navy!
The Awful Sleuth
The Scarf
Triple Trouble
Riding High
Square Dance Jubilee
The Mutineers
Trouble Preferred
The Paleface
Thunder in the Pines
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Jinx Money
Devil's Cargo
The Judge Steps Out
Dangerous Years
Magic Town
The Burning Cross
The Pretender
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
The Hat Box Mystery
The Mighty McGurk
So's Your Antenna
Society Mugs
Motor Maniacs
Jiggers, My Wife
The Kid from Brooklyn
Blonde Alibi
Man Alive
Voice of the Whistler
Where the Pest Begins
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
The Man Who Walked Alone
The Town Went Wild
The Princess and the Pirate
Moonlight and Cactus
Take It Big
Girls! Girls! Girls!
And the Angels Sing
The Girl in the Case
Radio Rampage
Wedtime Stories
True to Life
Campus Rhythm
Here Comes Elmer
Cutie on Duty
So's Your Uncle
Petticoat Larceny
Stage Door Canteen
Dixie
Taxi, Mister
Ladies' Day
Hit Parade of 1943
Dixie Dugan
Pretty Dolly
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
Phoney Cronies
Broadway
Blondie's Blessed Event
Butch Minds the Baby
Pardon My Stripes
Home Work
Sweet Spirits of the Nighter
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
The Officer and the Lady
Sailors on Leave
Man-I-Cured
Angels with Broken Wings
Thieves Fall Out
The Great Swindle
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Flowing Gold
Sporting Blood
Pop Always Pays
An Angel from Texas
Curtain Call
Millionaire Playboy
Remember the Night
The Covered Trailer
The Day the Bookies Wept
These Glamour Girls
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Quiet, Please
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Society Lawyer
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
The Long Shot
Breakdowns of 1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
Crime Ring
Halfway to Hollywood
Danger on the Air
Torchy Blane in Panama
Go Chase Yourself
Making the Headlines
He Couldn't Say No
Blondes at Work
Swing It, Sailor!
Fiddling Around
Crashing Hollywood
Wise Girl
The Adventurous Blonde
Living on Love
Calling All Curtains
Forty Naughty Girls
Varsity Show
Bury the Hatchet
The Big Shot
Marry the Girl
She Had to Eat
Fly Away Baby
Married Before Breakfast
Slave Ship
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Armored Car
Behind The Headlines
New News
Smart Blonde
Free Rent
Grandma's Buoys
Midnight Blunders
The Big Game
Wives Never Know
Hollywood Boulevard
Poppy
The Country Doctor
Just Speeding
The Bride Comes Home
Oh, My Nerves
She Couldn't Take It
Old Man Rhythm
Gobs of Trouble
Alibi Bye Bye
Stage Frights
Sock Me to Sleep
Raised and Called
Gum Shoes
Horse Heir
The Dancing Millionaire
Unlucky Strike
Down to Their Last Yacht
Hollywood Party
Strictly Dynamite
Cracked Shots
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Suits to Nuts
Day of Reckoning
Penthouse
Man of the Forest
Cross Fire
Hip Zip Hooray
42nd Street
Blondie Johnson
She Done Him Wrong
Lawyer Man
Fish Feathers
The Devil Is Driving
If I Had a Million
Night After Night
The Crooked Circle
Pack Up Your Troubles
Skyscraper Souls
The Boudoir Butler
Huddle
The Promoter
Lighthouse Love
Lighthouse Love
Flying High
Monkey Business
Caught
Young as You Feel
Iron Man
It Pays to Advertise
The Gang Buster
How Comedies Are Born
See America Thirst
The Fall Guy
The Shannons of Broadway
Happy Days
Big News
Glad Rag Doll
The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
Love Over Night
Marked Money
The Cop
None But the Brave
Hold 'Em Yale
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Wife Savers
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Silver Valley
Fireman, Save My Child
Alias The Deacon
Senorita
The Mysterious Rider
Man of the Forest
We're in the Navy Now
The Better 'Ole
Mantrap
Born to the West
Sir Lumberjack
Behind the Front
The Yankee Señor
The Best Bad Man
As Man Desires
Loving Lies
The Flirt
The Flaming Hour
The Speeder
The Egg
If You Believe It, It's So
Our Leading Citizen
Full o' Pep
Serenade
Sunless Sunday
Skirts
Kismet
The Poor Simp
A Schoolhouse Scandal
Her First Kiss
The Island of Intrigue
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Cupid's Day Off
Mickey
That Night
The Late Lamented
Two Crooks
Thirst
Whose Baby?
Her Torpedoed Love
The Pullman Bride
His Bitter Pill
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Double Trouble