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Actor Born: February 18, 1925 in New York City, NY Biography:Born into a show business family, "George Kennedy" made his stage debut at the age of two in a touring company of Bringing up Father. By the time he was seven, he was spinning records on a New York radio station. Kennedy' showbusiness inclinations were put aside when he developed a taste for the rigors of military life during World War II, and he wound up spending 16 years in the army. His military career ended and his acting career began when a back injury in the late 1950s inspired him to seek out another line of work.
Appropriately enough, given his background, Kennedy first made his name with a role as a military advisor on the "Sergeant Bilko" TV series. In films from 1961, the burly, 6'4" actor usually played heavies, both figuratively and literally; quite often, as in "Charade" (1963) and "Straitjacket" (1964), his unsavory screen characters were bumped off sometime during the fourth reel.... Full Biography
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