Arthur Kennedy

Born: 1914-02-17

John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway. He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the 1955 film Trial, and was a five-time Academy Award nominee.


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as Jackson Bentley
Released: 1962-12-11

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt...

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Fantastic Voyage

as Dr. Duval
Released: 1966-08-24

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic...

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Barabbas

as Pontius Pilate
Released: 1961-12-23

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when...

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The Antichrist

as Bishop Ascanio Oderisi
Released: 1974-11-22

An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a...

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They Died with Their Boots On

as Ned Sharp
Released: 1941-11-20

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his...

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The Sentinel

as Monsignor Franchino
Released: 1977-01-07

When a beautiful model, Alison Parker, rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone,...

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Cheyenne Autumn

as Doc Holliday
Released: 1964-10-15

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

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The Man from Laramie

as Vic Hansbro
Released: 1955-08-19

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who...

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Elmer Gantry

as Jim Lefferts
Released: 1960-07-07

When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a...

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Murder She Said

as Paul Quimper
Released: 1961-09-26

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no...

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High Sierra

as Red
Released: 1941-01-23

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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Rancho Notorious

as Vern Haskell
Released: 1952-03-06

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its...

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The Desperate Hours

as Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
Released: 1955-10-05

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

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Peyton Place

as Lucas Cross
Released: 1957-12-13

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance...

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Air Force

as Bombardier
Released: 1943-03-20

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...

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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

as The Inspector
Released: 1974-11-28

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of...

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Nevada Smith

as Bill Bowdre
Released: 1966-06-10

Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by...

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City for Conquest

as Eddie Kenny
Released: 1940-09-21

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and...

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A Summer Place

as Bart Hunter
Released: 1959-11-18

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children...

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Some Came Running

as Frank Hirsh
Released: 1958-12-25

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to...

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Anzio

as Maj. Gen. Jack Lesley
Released: 1968-07-24

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on...

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Boomerang!

as John Waldron
Released: 1947-02-28

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town,...

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Rome, Armed to the Teeth

as Vice questore Ruini
Released: 1976-10-10

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying,...

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Too Late for Tears

as Alan Palmer
Released: 1949-07-17

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000,...

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Crashout

as Joe Quinn
Released: 1955-03-01

Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten...

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The Lusty Men

as Wes Merritt
Released: 1952-10-24

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against...

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Shark

as Doc
Released: 1969-10-08

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman...

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The Humanoid

as Dr. Kraspin
Released: 1979-04-11

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the...

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Cheyenne

as The Sundance Kid
Released: 1947-06-06

Slick gambler James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) is apprehended by the law and given the option to...

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The Window

as Ed Woodry
Released: 1949-05-10

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents...

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Bend of the River

as Emerson Cole
Released: 1952-01-23

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of...

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Emmanuelle on Taboo Island

as Antonio
Released: 1976-05-14

Shipwrecked on a tropical island, partying biker Daniel finds an increasingly threatening family...

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Desperate Journey

as Flight Officer Jed Forrest
Released: 1942-09-26

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are...

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Champion

as Connie Kelly
Released: 1949-04-09

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who...

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Attack and Retreat

as Ferro Maria Ferri
Released: 1964-09-16

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army...

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Trial

as Barney Castle
Released: 1955-10-07

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A...

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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

as Tuscosa Marshal Roy W. Colby
Released: 1968-02-08

A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared...

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Chicago Deadline

as Tommy Ditman
Released: 1949-11-03

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads...

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Day of the Evil Gun

as Owen Forbes
Released: 1968-03-01

Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!

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Red Mountain

as Lane Waldron
Released: 1951-11-01

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of...

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The Rawhide Years

as Rick Harper
Released: 1956-07-01

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena...

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Devotion

as Branwell Brontë
Released: 1946-04-05

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the...

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Bright Victory

as Larry Nevins
Released: 1951-08-01

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.

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The Naked Dawn

as Santiago
Released: 1955-11-02

Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm...

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The President's Plane Is Missing

as Gunther Damon
Released: 1973-10-23

When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the...

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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

as (uncredited)
Released: 1944-04-13

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as...

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Claudelle Inglish

as Clyde Inglish
Released: 1961-09-20

A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order...

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Signs of Life

as Owen Coughlin
Released: 1989-01-01

The closing of a small shipbuilder in New England places stresses on the people involved.

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Nine Guests for a Crime

as Uberto
Released: 1977-01-12

Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote...

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Hail, Hero!

as Albert Dixon
Released: 1969-10-04

Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of...

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Ricco

as Don Vito
Released: 1973-08-27

Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a...

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Reconnaissance Pilot

as Decoration Announcer (voice)
Released: 1943-01-25

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second...

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The Girl in White

as Dr. Ben Barringer
Released: 1952-05-23

The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who...

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Cyclone

as Priest
Released: 1978-07-21

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small...

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Breakdowns of 1942

as Self
Released: 1942-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

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Dirty World

as Senator Merelli
Released: 1978-08-08

Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against...

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Killer Cop

as Armando Di Federico
Released: 1975-03-27

The investigation of the bombing of a hotel lobby as seen through the eyes of a young detective.

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The Glass Menagerie

as Tom Wingfield
Released: 1950-09-28

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because...

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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

as Dr. Henry Adams
Released: 1962-07-25

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1988-11-22

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

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Highway West

as George Foster
Released: 1941-08-07

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

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Impulse

as Alan Curtis
Released: 1954-01-01

An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum...

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Nakia

as Sheriff Sam Jericho
Released: 1974-04-17

An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe...

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Crawlspace

as Albert Graves
Released: 1972-02-11

A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and...

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My Old Man's Place

as Walter Pell
Released: 1971-06-29

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a...

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The Walking Hills

as Chalk
Released: 1949-03-05

A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

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Knockout

as Johnny Rocket
Released: 1941-03-29

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married...

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Family Killer

as Don Angelino Ferrante
Released: 1973-02-23

Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for...

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Murieta

as Capt. Love
Released: 1965-02-01

The fictionalized story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized...

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Bad Men of Missouri

as Jim Younger
Released: 1941-07-26

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...

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Joy in the Morning

as Patrick Brown
Released: 1965-05-05

Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the...

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Twilight for the Gods

as First Mate Ramsay
Released: 1958-08-04

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

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Covert Action

as CIA Chief of Station, Athens
Released: 1978-03-03

Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes...

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Blackmail Chase

as Mike Jannacone
Released: 1976-04-02

A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia...

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Cave of the Sharks

as Mr. Jackson
Released: 1978-06-28

When Andres and his partner are hired to recover some valuables from an airplane that went down...

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The Movie Murderer

as Angus MacGregor
Released: 1970-02-02

An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an...

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A Death of Innocence

as Mark Hirsch
Released: 1971-11-26

A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is...

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Strange Alibi

as Sgt. Joe Geary
Released: 1941-04-19

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true...

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as Sgt. Alfred Mason
Released: 1944-08-01

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the...

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It's Your America

as Soldier / Narrator (uncredited)
Released: 1946-07-25

This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government...

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The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1965-01-01

Hitler's last offensive in 1944 in the Ardennes, with which he desperately tried to stop the...

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Home Is the Hero

as Willie O'Reilly
Released: 1959-03-03

This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich...

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Monday's Child

as Peter Richardson
Released: 1967-06-08

The daughter of an American marriage in Puerto Rico forces her parents to find a doll that her...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Keith Hollands
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Sam Carter
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Dr. Walter Meade Taylor
First aired: 1963-10-10

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on...

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ABC Stage 67

as Lieutenant Hammond
First aired: 1966-09-14

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety...

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General Electric Theater

as Whitney Barton
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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