Edgar Kennedy
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Edgar Livingston Kennedy (b. April 26, 1890 in Monterey County, California; d. November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn".
A former singer and boxer, Kennedy worked in hundreds of films beginning as a Keystone Kop in 1914. He would go on to work with the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Our Gang. He also starred in his own series of short domestic comedies from the early 1930s until his death.
He is possibly best-known today for a small but memorable role as a lemonade salesman in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.
A stocky, bald man, he was well-known for a reaction known in comedy as the "slow burn" when angered.
Kennedy died of throat cancer in 1948 and was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
In 2005, a belated biography was published,written by Bill Cassara.
