TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of George Kennedy.
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Birthdate: February 18, 1925
George Kennedy
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
2.5695
24
1970s
2.1487
19
1980s
2.0372
19
1990s
1.7352
9
2000s
1.0622
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5535
2.5535
George Kennedy Movie Rankings
1
3.5756Lucas “Luke” Jackson (Paul Newman) is charged with a petty theft he committed when he was drunk, and is sentenced to a prison camp where he is put on the chain-gang. ...more about Cool Hand Luke
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $2.87
(12 sellers)
2
3.3154Regina returns home to find her house empty and her husband dead. The police inform her her husband had stolen $250,000 from the government. Now, his former associates begin harassing her, assuming she knows where the money is hidden. ...more about Charade
DVD from $2.42
(13 sellers)
3
3.0689A re-run of many of the gags from the original TV series 'Police Squad'. An Airplane type spoof, this time with the an incompetent lieutenant (Drebin) who always 'gets his man'. ...more about Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
DVD from $3.88
(12 sellers)
4
2.9668
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest ...more about Dirty Dozen
DVD from $5.07
(17 sellers)
5
2.9265
Charlotte Hollis, wealthy southern spinster, is shunned by her community for the grizzly murder some 40 years prior of her intended, John Mayhew. ...more about Hush... Hush
DVD from $4.76
(13 sellers)
6
2.9196
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. ...more about Flight of the Phoenix
DVD from $4.91
(11 sellers)
7
2.8268
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. ...more about Boston Strangler
DVD from $4.11
(12 sellers)
8
2.7906
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. ...more about Creepshow 2
DVD from $8.11
(11 sellers)
9
2.7549
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. ...more about Brain Dead
DVD from $8.65
(8 sellers)
10
2.7531
The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. ...more about Sons of Katie Elder
DVD from $3.66
(14 sellers)
11
2.7437
Five campers arrive in the mountains to examine some property they have bought, but are warned by the forest ranger Roy McLean that a huge machete-wielding maniac has been terrorising the area. ...more about Just Before Dawn
DVD from $12.28
(6 sellers)
12
2.7138
Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for 20 years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. ...more about Strait-Jacket
DVD from $13.34
(11 sellers)
13
2.7015
Robert Cole, a film editor, is constantly breaking up with and reconciling with long-suffering girl friend Mary Harvard, who works at a bank. ...more about Modern Romance
DVD from $2.12
(9 sellers)
14
2.6743
In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps. ...more about Lonely Are the Brave
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.6562
Howard Spence ('Sam Shepard' (qv)) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. ...more about Don't Come Knocking
DVD from $3.99
(12 sellers)
16
2.6470
Charlie Anderson is a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia and finds himself (and his family) in the middle of the Civil War. He decides not to get involved in the war because he believes that this is not "his" war. ...more about Shenandoah
DVD from $5.25
(11 sellers)
17
2.6191
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's problems. ...more about Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
DVD from $3.88
(11 sellers)
18
2.6013
Jonathan Hemlock is an Art teacher and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. ...more about Eiger Sanction
DVD from $5.95
(11 sellers)
19
2.5516
Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. ...more about Earthquake
DVD from $5.95
(10 sellers)
20
2.5441
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden ...more about Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
DVD from $9.99
(10 sellers)
21
2.4926
Mel Bakersfeld is the hard-charging manager of Lincoln International Airport, trying to keep his airport open despite a raging Midwestern snowstorm and an angry wife. ...more about Airport
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Supporting Actor
DVD from $12.95
(10 sellers)
22
2.4906
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. ...more about Death on the Nile
DVD from $2.94
(12 sellers)
23
2.4806
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. ...more about Bandolero!
DVD from $4.91
(14 sellers)
24
2.3260
Captain Rockwell Torrey and Commander Paul Eddington are part of the Navy's effort to recuperate from, and retaliate for, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ...more about In Harm's Way
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
25
2.2747
A mid-air collision involving a a small plane and a commercial jetliner leads to potential disaster, as a plane loaded with passengers and no pilot becomes the worst nightmare for a flight attendant tasked with flying the craft. ...more about Airport 1975
DVD from $12.95
(10 sellers)
26
2.2057
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. ...more about Mirage
- Not Available on DVD
27
2.1849
General Patton tries to transfer the German gold stock to Frankfurt. But someone foils his plan. The military police begin to find the guilty... ...more about Brass Target
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.9806
Set in the south in the days just after World War II, a black and a white farmer team up to irrigate their fields and escape the crushing poverty that their families live under. ...more about Hurry Sundown
- Not Available on DVD
29
1.8729
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for. ...more about Cahill U.S. Marshal
DVD from $10.99
(4 sellers)
30
1.8400
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. ...more about Radioactive Dreams
- Not Available on DVD
32
1.7715
A luxury 747 carrying valuable art work is hijacked and lands in the ocean, submerged in shallow water. ...more about Airport '77
DVD from $12.79
(12 sellers)
33
1.6870
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. ...more about Death Ship
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.6683
This film is the last (so far) of the 'Airport' genre which stars George Kennedy again in his aviation-disaster struck role as Joe Patroni who has to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over ...more about Concorde: Airport '79
DVD from $12.79
(12 sellers)
35
1.6583
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. ...more about Dirty Dingus Magee
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.5387
Los Angeles Lt. Frank Drebin goes to Washington, D.C. to be honored for shooting his 1,000th drug dealer. Never was the nation, or the world, in such serious jeopardy. ...more about Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
- Not Available on DVD
38
1.5113
It's the post-apocalypse, and the world has been changed by "the accident," a chemical warfare experiment gone awry. At an isolated subterranean complex, a group of people survives because they were able to get the antidote for the illness. ...more about Terror Within
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.3880
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through. ...more about Nightmare at Noon
DVD from $4.65
(4 sellers)
42
1.2611
Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuses to believe them. ...more about Double McGuffin
DVD from $7.21
(5 sellers)
43
1.2250
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. ...more about Good Guys and the Bad Guys
DVD from $12.71
(13 sellers)
47
1.2017
When his friend injures a little girl in a small southern town while driving drunk, country singer Paul agrees to state in court he had been driving. But his lawyer betrays him, and he ends up in a prison farm, sentenced to 5 years. ...more about Mean Dog Blues
- Not Available on DVD
48
1.1597
A bunch of young people are invited to a Caribbean cruise on a gangster's yacht, to distract the attention of the authorities. Unfortunately, a mutant cat which escaped from a test laboratory also gets on board, and kills most of the passengers. ...more about Uninvited
- Not Available on DVD
49
1.1104
This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. ...more about Lost Horizon
- Not Available on DVD
51
0.8400
Follows the tale of a young woman's sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. ...more about Bolero
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Supporting Actor
DVD from $6.89
(10 sellers)
52
Josie Minick is a widow, who is forced to fend for herself. Josie living in a cattle country, finds herself in odds and war with the cattlemen of the town, when she decides to make a sheep farm her livelihood. ...more about Ballad of Josie
- Not Available on DVD
57
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. ...more about Fools' Parade
- Not Available on DVD
58
A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction. ...more about Virus
- Not Available on DVD
61
A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader. ...more about Hired to Kill
- Not Available on DVD
65
Karate action and laughs never cease when a brother and sister go to California to visit their uncle. ...more about Magic Kid
- Not Available on DVD
67
The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners. ...more about McHale's Navy
DVD from $6.39
(12 sellers)
68
A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine. ...more about Pink Jungle
- Not Available on DVD
70
The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer in order to clear his name. ...more about Search and Destroy
- Not Available on DVD
72
Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. ...more about Steel
- Not Available on DVD
73
Bank robbers and best friends Frame, Luther, and Matt forego safe haven in Colorado to save a women from Dutch Henry and his gang. Meanwhile a possie is formed to track them down and return all the money they stole from a small towns bank. ...more about Three Bad Men
- Not Available on DVD
74
A dying man frames himself for the kidnapping and murder of an industrialist so his wife and daughter can benefit from the reward money. ...more about Zigzag
- Not Available on DVD
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