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.
Movies
Murder She Said
Paul Quimper
Lawrence of Arabia
Jackson Bentley
Fantastic Voyage
Dr. Duval
Shark
Doc
Nevada Smith
Bill Bowdre
Elmer Gantry
Jim Lefferts
City for Conquest
Eddie Kenny
Barabbas
Pontius Pilate
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
The Inspector
The Window
Ed Woodry
Champion
Connie Kelly
Too Late for Tears
Alan Palmer
Day of the Evil Gun
Owen Forbes
Chicago Deadline
Tommy Ditman
Crashout
Joe Quinn
High Sierra
Red
Cheyenne Autumn
Doc Holliday
Anzio
Maj. Gen. Jack Lesley
Rancho Notorious
Vern Haskell
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
(uncredited)
Cyclone
Priest
Impulse
Alan Curtis
Peyton Place
Lucas Cross
The Lusty Men
Wes Merritt
Air Force
Bombardier
Some Came Running
Frank Hirsh
Bend of the River
Emerson Cole
They Died with Their Boots On
Ned Sharp
The Sentinel
Monsignor Franchino
The Man from Laramie
Vic Hansbro
Highway West
George Foster
The Desperate Hours
Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield
A Summer Place
Bart Hunter
Boomerang!
John Waldron
Strange Alibi
Sgt. Joe Geary
Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Vice questore Ruini
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Tuscosa Marshal Roy W. Colby
The Humanoid
Dr. Kraspin
Devotion
Branwell Brontë
Desperate Journey
Flight Officer Jed Forrest
Signs of Life
Owen Coughlin
Twilight for the Gods
First Mate Ramsay
The Antichrist
Bishop Ascanio Oderisi
Killer Cop
Armando Di Federico
Crawlspace
Albert Graves
Murieta
Capt. Love
Bright Victory
Larry Nevins
The Naked Dawn
Santiago
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Dr. Henry Adams
Covert Action
CIA Chief of Station, Athens
Claudelle Inglish
Clyde Inglish
Trial
Barney Castle
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Sgt. Alfred Mason
Joy in the Morning
Patrick Brown
Red Mountain
Lane Waldron
Bad Men of Missouri
Jim Younger
Knockout
Johnny Rocket
Cheyenne
The Sundance Kid
The Girl in White
Dr. Ben Barringer
Monday's Child
Peter Richardson
Dirty World
Senator Merelli
Nakia
Sheriff Sam Jericho
The Walking Hills
Chalk
Blackmail Chase
Mike Jannacone
Family Killer
Don Angelino Ferrante
Attack and Retreat
Ferro Maria Ferri
Last Angels
Il nonno
A Death of Innocence
Mark Hirsch
The Movie Murderer
Angus MacGregor
Emmanuelle on Taboo Island
Antonio
Home Is the Hero
Willie O'Reilly
Hail, Hero!
Albert Dixon
Cave of the Sharks
Mr. Jackson
The President's Plane Is Missing
Gunther Damon
The Last Bomb
Crewman (voice)
My Old Man's Place
Walter Pell
The Rawhide Years
Rick Harper
How to Fly the B-17 (Part 2, Flight Operations)
Instructor
How to Fly the B-17 (Part 1, Ground Operations)
Instructor
Reconnaissance Pilot
Decoration Announcer (voice)
Troop Carrier Airplanes: Cockpit Procedure
Capt. Mathews
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Bob Chilton
Ditch and Live
Captain Scott H. Reynolds
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
Target - Invisible
Air Force Officer / Narrator
Nine Guests for a Crime
Uberto
It's Your America
Soldier / Narrator (uncredited)
Ricco
Don Vito
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
The Man from Independence
Tom Pendergast
The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles
Narrator (voice)
Grandpa
Shows
General Electric Theater
Whitney Barton
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Dr. Walter Meade Taylor
ABC Stage 67
Lieutenant Hammond
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sam Carter
CBS Playhouse
F.D.R.
Narrator
Nakia
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Keith Hollands
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self (archive footage)