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  • Creepshow 2
  • Creepshow 2 review by djshepdog from Newark, England
    Rated - 3.5 stars Creepshow 2 Review 1 May 2010
    ...antastic but actors and actresses in particular who stand out in this movie are George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour and Lois Chiles. Also, Stephen King plays an incredibly funny c...   Read customer review
  • The Sons Of Katie Elder
  • The Sons Of Katie Elder review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Excellent tradition western 19 February 2006
    ...sed all in black in very traditional fashion. This range thug is played well by George Kennedy, and the scene where he is clubbed in the mouth by Wayne is often cited by view...   Read customer review
  • Charade
  • Charade review by from lancashire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Cool 60's classic 21 April 2004
    ...his lines with his usual charm. Grant and Hepburn together with Lee Marvin, George Kennedy and Walter Matthau as support and Stanley Donen directing is simply unmissable....   Read customer review

George Kennedy - filmography


  • Another Happy Day (2011)
    Starring: Ellen Barkin,  Ezra Miller,  Kate Bosworth
    Director: Sam Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the fire of primal, Byzantine family dynamics. It's the wedding of Lynn's son, whom she was deprived of raising because of her acrimonious divorce, and a feud still rages between Lynn and her ex-husband's hot-tempered wife. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 16 members
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  • The Man Who Came Back on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Sean Young,  Billy Zane,  Armand Assante
    Director: Glen Pitre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Eric Braeden, Billy Zane, and Sean Young headline this traditional western about one man who stood tall against injustice in a time when corruption corroded the souls of once-decent men. His family slaughtered before his very eyes, plantation supervisor Reese Paxton (Braeden) is subsequently ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 274 members
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  • Hired To Kill on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Brian Thompson,  Oliver Reed,  George Kennedy
    Director: Nico Mastorakis,  Peter Rader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A soldier of fortune must free a jailed rebel leader from a third world island fortress. When he learns he will be travelling incognito as a fashion designer with a bevy of beautiful models, he's less than thrilled - especially upon hearing he's got just a couple of weeks to turn the women into a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 94 members
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  • Brain Dead on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Bill Paxton,  Bill Pullman,  Patricia Charbonneau
    Director: Adam Simon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting industry--memory resculpting. It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance, or a botched career. At Eunice's "New You" outlets, a simple operation will give customers peace ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 465 members
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  • The Terror Within on DVD (1988)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Andrew Stevens
    Director: Thierry Notz
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Following a chemically induced plague, only a small group of scientists remain...or so they think. It's not long before they discover a single woman who is pregnant with something not entirely human...
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 116 members
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  • Naked Gun on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Leslie Nielsen,  Priscilla Presley,  George Kennedy
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 14,988 members
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  • The Gunfighters on DVD (1987)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Art Hindle
    Director: Clay Borris
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this pilot Western produced for Canadian television, two brothers and their cousin become bandits to rescue their ranch from a greedy land developer.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 7 members
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  • Creepshow 2 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Dorothy Lamour,  George Kennedy,  Lois Chiles
    Director: Michael Gornick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    This sequel to the popular EC Comics parody once again brings an anthology of Stephen King's tales to the screen. In Old Chief Wood'nhead, a dime store Indian comes to life and exacts bloody retribution on those who murdered its owner; The Raft details four teenagers descent into terror as they are ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,240 member
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  • The Delta Force on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Chuck Norris,  Lee Marvin,  Robert Forster
    Director: Menahem Golan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a band of ruthless terrorists hijack an airliner full of American passengers, the U.S. enlists the aid of an elite strike force (Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, and others) to rescue the hostages.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,269 member
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  • Savage Dawn (1985)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Richard Lynch,  Karen Black
    Director: Simon Nuchtern
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A motorcycle gang invades a small desert town, terrorizing everyone. Nobody's able to stop them until an ex-Vietnam combat hero (Lance Henriksen) arrives to visit a friend (George Kennedy). Although he'd hoped there would be no more violence in his life, he finds it impossible to ignore the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 21 members
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  • Bolero (1984)
    Starring: Bo Derek,  George Kennedy,  Andrea Occhipinti
    Director: John Derek
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    It's the Roaring Twenties, the era of Valentino when every girl dreamed of being swept away by her very own sheikh. Beautiful young heiress Ayre McGillivary is no exception and immediately after graduating from High School she embarks with her trusted chauffeur Cotton on a sensual voyage to Arabia ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 72 members
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  • Just Before Dawn on DVD (1981)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Mike Kellin,  Chris Lemmon
    Director: Jeff Lieberman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Five youths set out for a weekend camping excursion, to drink, frolic and skinny-dip on an isolated piece of land one of them has inherited. Despite ominous warnings of local forest Rangers, they set up camp, and start disappearing one by one.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 395 members
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  • Wacko on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Stella Stevens,  George Kennedy
    Director: Greydon Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This insane comedy combines the most memorable scenes from "Grease," "The Exorcist," "Alien," and "Saturday Night Fever" with a cast of lovely young ladies. It's wild comedy at its funniest.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 142 members
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  • Death Ship on DVD (1980)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Richard Crenna,  Nick Mancuso
    Director: Alvin Rakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching on a collision course. Despite the attempts of the crew to avert disaster, the liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven survivors. They are saved when they clamber aboard a ghostly ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 458 members
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  • Virus on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Glenn Ford,  Robert Vaughn,  Olivia Hussey
    Director: Kinji Fukasaku
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    As the result of a private plane crash, a deadly chemical warfare weapon is unleashed on the unsuspecting world. Soon thereafter, the only humans left alive are the members of international antarctic research teams.
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 435 members
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  • Death On The Nile on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Simon MacCorkindale,  Jack Warden,  Angela Lansbury
    Director: John Guillermin
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A deluxe version of Agatha Christie's favourite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her Murder on the Orient Express. Set aboard a steamship cruising down the Nile, an extremely unpopular heiress is murdered and everyone on the ship is suspect. The passengers include the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,216 member
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  • The Human Factor on DVD (1975)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  John Mills,  Raf Vallone
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    George Kennedy stars in this 1970s revenge film as John Kinsdale, a military employee stationed in Naples who uses state-of-the-art (for the time) computer technology to track down the terrorists who killed his family. Local police inspector Dr. Lupo (Raf Vallone) and Kinsdale’s commander (Arthur ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 40 members
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  • Earthquake on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Ava Gardner,  George Kennedy
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This essential 1970s disaster epic, with a script co-authored by Mario Puzo (THE GODFATHER), centers around a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles and the shocking aftermath it causes. The all-star cast is led by Charleton Heston as a construction engineer whose marital problems supply him with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 811 members
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  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot on DVD (1974)
    Starring: George Kennedy,  Jeff Bridges,  Geoffrey Lewis
    Director: Michael Cimino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in Michael Cimino's brilliant directorial debut. This well-written film, featuring strong performances, is about a complex caper in which Bridges plays a young drifter who teams up with an ex-con (Eastwood) and his former partners in crime to restage a difficult ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,235 members
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  • Airport - Blu-ray (1970)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Dean Martin,  Jean Seberg
    Director: George Seaton,  Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the original 'disaster' movies, this all-star nail-biter follows a series of emergencies at a large Midwestern airport on a snowy night. The weather's bad enough, but then a passenger threatens to blow up an inbound plane. Based on Arthur Hailey's novel. Sequels include Airport 1975, Airport ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
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  • Gaily, Gaily (1969)
    Starring: Beau Bridges,  Melina Mercouri,  Brian Keith
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A naive young news reporter arrives in Chicago at the turn of the century, gets a job covering the seamier side of the city for a major newspaper with the help of a "madam", and then gets into a lot of trouble.
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  • The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  George Kennedy,  David Carradine
    Director: Burt Kennedy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Marshal Flagg, an ageing lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • The Boston Strangler on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Tony Curtis,  Henry Fonda,  George Kennedy
    Director: Richard Fleischer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true story of self-confessed mass murderer Albert DeSalvo. Adapted by Edward Anhalt from the book by Gerold Frank, the film covers the years 1962 to 1964, during which time a dozen ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 610 members
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  • Cool Hand Luke on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  George Kennedy,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the captain ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 7,723 members
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  • Ballad Of Josie (1967)
    Starring: Doris Day,  Peter Graves,  George Kennedy
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Doris Day lights up the screen with her timeless sparkle in this light hearted Western. Upon the death of her husband, feisty rancher Josie is determined to make a success of her sheep farm in small town Wyoming, much to the outrage of her male counterparts. Determined to prove her equality and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 122 members
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  • The Sons Of Katie Elder on DVD (1965)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Martha Hyer
    Director: Henry Hathaway
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,671 member
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  • Charade - Blu-ray (1963)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Audrey Hepburn,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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  • Charade on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Audrey Hepburn,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Stanley Donen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,737 members
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George Kennedy facts

5 most recent films

Mad Mad Wagon Party - 3 stars
Another Happy Day - 2.5 stars
The Man Who Came Back - 2.5 stars
With Or Without You - 2.5 stars
Naked Gun 33. 1/3 - The Final Insult - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Naked Gun - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Cool Hand Luke - 4.0 stars
Dallas - Season 14 - 4.0 stars
Charade - 3.5 stars
The Sons Of Katie Elder - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mad Mad Wagon Party - 3 stars
Man from the Diners' Club - 3 stars
Gaily, Gaily - 3 stars
Airport - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Rigged - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

O.J. Simpson - 4 times - show films
Walter Matthau - 4 times - show films
Leslie Nielsen - 4 times - show films
Robert Vaughn - 4 times - show films
Dean Martin - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lisa Siedman - 6 times - show films
Leonard Katzman - 6 times - show films
Howard Lakin - 6 times - show films
Henry Hathaway - 3 times - show films
David Zucker - 3 times - show films