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Sept. 16, 2024
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George Kennedy was a veteran actor who built his early career playing heavies and won an Academy Award in 1968 for his supporting role as the tough Southern prison-camp convict who grew to hero-worship Paul Newman’s defiant title character in “Cool Hand Luke.”
George Kennedy shouting while collecting bets from prisoners in a scene from “Cool Hand Luke.”
(Archive Photos / Getty Images)Jim Brown, Charles Bronson and George Kennedy take part in war game maneuvers in a scene from the “The Dirty Dozen.”
(Archive Photos / Getty Images)George Kennedy, Fredric March, and Jim Brown talking in car in a scene from the film “Tick...Tick...Tick...”
(Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)George Kennedy and James Whitmore arm wrestle in a scene from the film “Guns Of The Magnificent Seven.”
(Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)George Kennedy and Gregory Peck in “ Mirage.”
(Hulton Archive / Getty Images)George Kennedy is taunted by three others in “Hurry Sundown.”
(Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy plan a robbery in “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.”
(Mondadori / Mondadori via Getty Images)Charlton Heston and George Kennedy are caught in rising water in a scene from the film “Earthquake.”
(Archive Photos / Getty Images)Carol Burnett and George Kennedy at a news conference for “Plaza Suite” in L.A. in 1971.
(Ron Galella / WireImage)Sept. 16, 2024