George Kennedy

George Kennedy (born February 18, 1925 in New York City, New York) is an Irish-American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is widely familiar as Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, or more recently as Captain Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun trilogy.

Selected filmography

• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)
• McHale's Navy (1964)
• Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
• The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• Bandolero! (1968)
• Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
• Airport (1970)
• Lost Horizon (1973)
• Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Earthquake (1974)
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
• Airport '77 (1977)
• ' (1979)
• Savage Dawn (1985)
• The Delta Force (1986)
• Creepshow 2 (1987)
• ' (1988)
• Demonwarp (1988)
• ' (1991)
• ' (1994)
• Bayou Ghost (1997)
• Truce (2004)