George Kennedy
Actor
Films to Rent
- Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…
- One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
- Mirage (1965)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau…
- An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
- Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson…
- A group of hardened criminals redeem themselves when recruited for a suicide mission during World War 2. An exciting adventure classic.
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, George Kennedy
- Sure–footed, entertaining chain–gang yarn with a famously repulsive egg–eating contest.
- Boston Strangler, The (1968)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
- Undeniably fascinating but somewhat static docudrama about placid 1960s serial–killer Albert De Salvo (Tony Curtis), who underwent…
- Bandolero! (1968)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch…
- Number three in James Stewart's Western repertoire centred on two brawling brothers who must find a way to work together to avoid the death sentence…
- Airport (1970)
- Dir. George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg…
- A big–city airport is disrupted one hectic night, with hijackings, bombings, stowaways etc. The whole cast struggle to cope. Adapted from…
- Airport 1975 (1974)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy…
- First sequel to the 'disaster' blockbuster of 1970, this places its star–cast in a disabled Boeing 747 with both pilots down and the chief…
- Eiger Sanction, The (1975)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee
- Star/director Eastwood plays a mountaineering, art–loving version of James Bond in this bumbling thriller.
Lame dialogue and cool threads…
- Airport '77 (1977)
- Dir. Jerry Jameson
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart…
- This third installment in the Airport franchise has a jetliner plunging into the mid–Atlantic's Bermuda Triangle where a fresh celebrity…
- Brass Target (1978)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn…
- A classic 70's all–star cast feature in this post–World War II suspense film that suggests that the German automobile crash involving…
- The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)
- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner…
- The final gasp of the AIRPORT series of disaster thrillers, which still attracted top stars right up to this nadir. Here, the titular supersonic…
- Modern Romance (1981)
- Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Bruno Kirby…
- Essentially a sustained neurotic monologue, this early gem from director/star Brooks examines the dilemmas of a…
- Delta Force, The (1986)
- Dir. Menahem Golan
Feat. Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam…
- Typically explosive Cannon Films production that marked the last box office hit for the martial–artist–turned–film–star Chuck…
- Creepshow 2 (1987)
- Dir. Michael Gornick
Feat. George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Tom Savini…
- George Romero and Stephen King present three stories of bloodcurdling horror that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a…
- Naked Gun, The (1988)
- Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson…
- Leslie Neilsen perfects his deadpan for the Zucker Bros., who do for police work what their classic FLYING HIGH did for air travel. A…
- Gambler, The (2014)
- Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, John Goodman…
- Mark Wahlberg is cast against type as a literature professor whose gambling addiction has him in a continuous state of debt.