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Willard "Bill" Kennedy (June 27, 1908 – January 27, 1997) was an American actor, voice artist, and host of the long-running Detroit-based television show, Bill Kennedy at the Movies. He began his career as a staff announcer in radio; Kennedy's voice narrates the opening of the television series Adventures of Superman.
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 june 1908 at Cleveland Heights (USA)
Death 27 january 1997 (at 88 years) at Palm Beach (USA)
Birth 27 june 1908 at Cleveland Heights (USA)
Death 27 january 1997 (at 88 years) at Palm Beach (USA)
Willard "Bill" Kennedy (June 27, 1908 – January 27, 1997) was an American actor, voice artist, and host of the long-running Detroit-based television show, Bill Kennedy at the Movies. He began his career as a staff announcer in radio; Kennedy's voice narrates the opening of the television series Adventures of Superman.
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Don't Make Waves (1967)
, 1h37Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, Surfing films
Actors Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, Marc London
Roles Reporter (uncredited)
Rating57%
The film depicts a series of romantic triangles between different groupings of the principal cast and supporting players among several backdrops involving Southern California culture (swimming pools, bodybuilding, beach life, fantastic real estate, mudslides, metaphysical gurus, etc.).
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
, 1h35Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Sheriff
Rating63%
Roy "Mad Dog" Earle (Jack Palance), an aging bank robber, intends to pull off one last heist before retiring.
Unchained (1955)
, 1h15Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, Peggy Knudsen, Jerry Paris, John Qualen
Roles Sanders
Rating60%
Steve Davitt décide de ne pas attendre le terme de la peine qu'il purge en prison et de s'évader, afin de retrouver sa femme Mary et son fils Win. Bill Howard, un autre prisonnier, le dissuade de passer à l'acte...
Born to the Saddle (1953)
, 1h17Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Donald Woods, Leif Erickson, Chuck Courtney, Rand Brooks, Glenn Strange, Bobby Anderson
Roles Bit
Rating58%
Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle. As he rides into town, he takes a bullet meant for gambler Matt Daggett and across the street lies his uncle, victim of the gambler's gun. Dagget looks on Bill as 'good luck' and nurses him back to health and gives him the job of training "Blue Chip", the fastest quarter horse in the west, for a big race. Bill doesn't know that Dagget plans to fix the race and put his own money on another horse at heavy odds. Quartered at the nearby ranch of John Grant, Bill meets Jerri Marshall, daughter of Bob Marshall, who lost "Blue Chip" to Daggett in a crooked gambling deal. Grant gets mixed up in a stage coach robbery and killing and rides back to the ranch with Daggett henchman Red Roper. When Roper tries to molest a woman, Bill bluffs him with an empty gun and forces him back to town. Roper is arrested for the killing and implicates Grant. Incited by Daggett, who fears exposure as the outlaw leader, a paid mob breaks into the jail and both Grant and Roper are hanged, but Grant, barely able to touch a plank with the toe of his boot, clings to life until Bill finds him and cuts him down. On the day of the race, Daggett lures Bill away from "Blue Chip" long enough for a wire to be twisted around the horse's leg at the fetlock. "Blue Chip" goes lane partly through the race but races on in agony and wins. Daggett tries to hide his treachery by blaming the lameness on a broken leg and draws his gun to shoot the horse. Marshall intervenes and is shot by the gambler. Bill discovers the wire and now also knows that Daggett is the outlaw leader responsible for his father's death and the hanging of his friend Grant. Bill heads for the saloon to confront Daggett. Just as the gambler turns to fire on Bill, Grant appears. When the smoke clears both Daggett and Grant are dead.
Two Lost Worlds (1951)
, 1h1Directed by Norman Dawn
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films
Actors James Arness, Kasey Rogers, Bill Kennedy, Pierre Watkin, Guy Bellis
Roles Martin Shannon
Rating41%
The year is 1830. The American clipper ship, the Queen, is attacked by pirates in the New Hebrides (present day Vanuatu). The ship's mate Kirk Hamilton (Arness) is wounded and heads to Queensland, Australia for medical treatment. While at the hospital, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries (Rogers), the fiancee of Martin Shannon (Bill Kennedy) a rancher. A romantic rivalry develops and the pirates, who attacked Kirk and his ship kidnap her along with her friend, Nancy Holden (Jane Harlan). Kirk and Shannon pursue the pirates and they soon wind up on a volcanic island, inhabited by dinosaurs.
Storm Over Wyoming (1950)
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim Holt, Noreen Nash, Tom Keene, Bill Kennedy, Kenneth MacDonald, Don Haggerty
Roles Jess Rawlins
Rating59%
A range war develops between cattlemen and sheepmen. A couple of cowhands, Dave Saunders and Chito Rafferty, get caught in the middle when they rescue Tug Campbell, who's about to be lynched by sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins and his men without a fair trial.
I Shot Billy the Kid (1950)
, 57minutesDirected by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Don "Red" Barry, Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal, Judith Allen, Bill Kennedy
Roles Deputy John Poe
Rating52%
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Peggy (1950)
, 1h16Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Diana Lynn, Charles Coburn, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Lawrence, Charles Drake, Rock Hudson
Roles Reporter
Rating67%
Trail of the Yukon (1949)
, 1h7Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Kirby Grant, Suzanne Dalbert, Bill Edwards, Peter Mamakos, Iris Adrian, Anthony Warde
Roles Constable, RCMP
Rating59%
Forgotten Women (1949)
, 1h5Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Elyse Knox, Edward Norris, Robert Shayne, Veda Ann Borg, Noel Neill, Bill Kennedy
Roles Bill Dunning
Rating62%
Dynamite (1949)
, 1h8Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William Gargan, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon, Frank Ferguson, Douglass Dumbrille, Phil Arnold
Roles Construction Worker (uncredited)
Rating56%
Assigned to Danger (1948)
, 1h6Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Gene Raymond, Robert Bice, Noreen Nash, Martin Kosleck, Ralf Harolde, Gene Evans
Roles Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Rating57%
Frankie Mantell's gang pulls an $80,000 payroll stickup in Los Angeles. But getaway driver Nip Powers is killed and Frankie shot and wounded.
Joan of Arc (1948)
, 2h25Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Thierache, Joan's Executioner
Rating63%
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
Raw Deal (1948)
, 1h19Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr, Whit Bissell
Rating71%
Prisoner Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe), who has "taken the fall" for an unspecified crime, breaks jail with the help of his girl, Pat (Claire Trevor). Neither Joe nor Pat is aware that the escape has been facilitated as a set-up by mobster Rick Coyle (Raymond Burr), a sadistic pyromaniac, who has arranged for Joe to be killed during the break-out in order to avoid confronting him and paying Joe his agree-upon share of $50,000 for the crime. When the break-out scheme succeeds, contrary to Rick's expectations, Rick decides that he must have Joe done in some other way, by somebody else.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
, 1h11Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey, Rory Mallinson, Bill Kennedy, Esther Michelson, William Ruhl
Roles 2nd Detective
Rating64%
Vaudeville dancer Tom Quinn (Castle) is convicted for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife Ann (Knox) follows the trail of clues to the real killer.