Actor George Kennedy, Jr has passed away (Boise, Eagle: movies, live)

[ScottStielow]

Born. February 18, 1925 New York City, New York.
Died February 28, 2016 (aged 91) Middleton, Idaho, U.S. Residence Eagle, Idaho.
A WWII Veteran. Joining the U.S. military during World War II, he spent 16 years in that career until the late 1950s, when a back injury prompted him to find other work. He reached a rank of captain. His first notable screen role was a military advisor on the TV sitcom The Phil Silvers Show, where he served as a technical adviser, a role which Kennedy later described as "a great training ground".
He appread in a lot of the classic Western TV Shows of the Late 1950s through 1960s. And a lot of movies, including Cool Hand Luke.
RIP George Kennedy.
Scott

[wildflower82]

Cool Hand Luke is one of my favorite "man movies"


George Kennedy (a.k.a Dragline) dishes on Paul Newman in 'Cool Hand Luke' | EW.com
In the movie, Dragline calls Luke a “natural born world-shaker.” After tracking down Kennedy, who now lives a quieter existence (read: no reps, and no listed phone number) on the outskirts of Boise, Idaho, the 83-year-old says the same could have been said of Newman-the-actor, despite Newman’s pretty-boy blue eyes. When Kennedy first met Newman on the set of Cool Hand Luke, the former had already worked with just about every A-list actor in the business and was “always deferential to them,” but “very seldom ran into one who was so much a master of what he did than Paul. He was everything you could ask for and more.”
Kennedy recalled shooting a scene with Newman in which Luke has just received word that his mother has died. In the scene, it’s raining outside; Newman hops on his bunk to play the banjo, and starts singing, “I don’t care if it rains or freezes / as long as I’ve got my plastic Jesus….” “Paul knew as much about playing a banjo as I know about making cakes, which means very, very little,” Kennedy explained in his throaty, southern drawl. “But he wanted to play his own accompaniment, and director Stuart Rosenberg and everybody else said, ‘You don’t learn to play banjo that easily.’ And he said, ‘No, I’m going to try.’ And [in] the scene you see, Paul makes an error. He wasn’t doing it the way he wanted and became madder and madder…although you can only [tell] by the increase of the pace of his picking the banjo. When it was over, it was magnificent. Rosenberg said, ‘Print.’ Paul said, ‘I could do it better.’ Rosenberg said, ‘Nobody can do it better.’ And that’s the way that came off. True story.”




Sounds like he led a fun and fulfilled life, many of us never get the chances in life these two men did!


RIP and prayers to the family!

[Jimbo302]

Cool hand Luke has had a real impact on mine and my family's life for decades. I actually sang newmans version of that song to my children as a lulaby.

Rip to Kennedy

[volosong]

Thank you, George, for your service to your country and your career in entertaining us mere mortals in many memorable roles. You are one of the great ones. Enjoy your reward.

[Syringaloid]

George Kennedy played a tough guy on screen but was really


George Kennedy played a tough guy on screen but was really ‘a quiet man’




The Oscar winner was a longtime Eagle resident who “would never turn a fan away”

He died of natural causes Sunday in Middleton, coroner said

No memorial plans have been released

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