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Bill Kennedy

All alone by the telephone...

About Me

I worked as an actor from 1940 to 1955 or there about.
I have been called "Hollywood's greatest stand-in"
and a "Detroit Icon"
In the 'Superman' TV series I was the guy who says
"Faster than a speeding bullet... Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"
I had one line in 'Joan of Arc' (1948) as Thirache, the Executioner.
As I pile the wood on the bonfire to burn poor Joan, I call out
"We need more faggots!"
I started my Detroit television career as a newscaster on WWJ and WDIV-TV, and star of 'Your Hollywood Host' in 1952. A year later I left for Hollywood.
I returned to the Detroit airwaves on channel 9 CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, before joining WKBD in Southfield in 1969. I soon began my weekly movie show
'Bill Kennedy at the Movies'.
I moved to Florida in 1982 and subsequently lost my rug (hairpiece) in a seagull attack but continued producing one movie show a week for broadcast in Detroit on channel 50 WKBD.
My last show in Detroit aired Dec. 4, 1983.
I passed away January 27th 1997. I was 88.
Suave, debonair savoir faire
Just an SOB ( Sweet Old Bill )

My Interests

MOVIES
Working with my wonderful "family" in Detroit to bring you some marvelous Hollywood films.

Driving around Grosse Pointe in my '65 T-Bird
or sometimes incognito in my son's '58 hearse.

Bagging broads and hammering back the scotch with my old buddy Bill Bonds.

I'd like to meet:

Rita Bell, Ann Muedell, Mr. Belvedere, Soupy Sales, Sir Graves Ghastly, Tilly and all you great kids out there.

Music:

'Just In Time' from the musical Bells Are Ringing

Movies:

Male and Female Since Adam and Eve (1961) aka Souls of Sin Unchained (1955) (uncredited) [Sanders]
I Died a Thousand Times (1955) [Sheriff]
Loose in London (1953) (uncredited) [Ship's Officer]
Red Planet Mars (1952) [First News Commentator]
Nevada Badmen (1951) [Jensen]
Cry Danger (1951) (uncredited) [Cop at Trailer Park]
Canyon Raiders (1951) [Hemingway]
Abilene Trail (1951) [Colter]
Silver City Bonanza (1951) [Monk Monroe]
Gunslingers (1950) [Ace Larabee]
Border Outlaws (1950) aka The Phantom Horseman (UK)
Border Rangers (1950) [Carlson]
I Shot Billy the Kid (1950) [Deputy Poe]
Peggy (1950) [Reporter]
Storm Over Wyoming (1950) [Jess Rawlins]
Train to Tombstone (1950) [Reverend Greeley]
Two Lost Worlds (1950) [Martin Shannon]
The Marshal of Trail City (1950) (TV)
Forgotten Women (1949) [Bill Dunning]
Law of the West (1949) [Nixon]
Shadows of the West (1949) [Jonathan Ward]
Sheriff of Medicine Bow (1949)
Trail of the Yukon (1949) [Constable]
Assigned to Danger (1948) (uncredited) [Assistant District Attorney]
Belle Starr's Daughter (1948) (uncredited) [Kiowa Marshal]
Triggerman (1948) [Kirby]
The Sheriff of Medicine Bow (1948) [Barry Stuart]
In This Corner (1948) [Al Barton, ring announcer]
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) [2nd Detective]
Overland Trails (1948) [Carter Morgan]
Joan of Arc (1948) [Thirache, the Executioner]
A Southern Yankee (1948) aka My Hero [Lieutenant Sheve]
Web of Danger (1947) [Ernie Reardon]
The Gangster (1947) [Thug] aka Low Company (USA: reissue title)
The Case of the Baby-Sitter (1947) [Homicide Lt. MacGruder]
News Hounds (1947) [Mark Morgan]
Fun on a Weekend (1947) [Bill Davis]
The People's Choice (1946) (as Drew Kennedy) [Abner Snell] also Producer and Director
Bachelor Girls (1946) [Mr. Stapp] aka Bachelor's Daughters, The
Don't Gamble With Strangers (1946) [Harry Amold]
That Brennan Girl (1946) [Arthur] aka Tough Girl (USA: reissue title)
Escape in the Desert (1945) [Hank Albright]
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) [Herbert Stone]
The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945) [Wayne Decker]
The Doughgirls (1944) (uncredited) [Guy who Punches Drake]
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Crime by Night (1944) [Hospital Attendant]
Make Your Own Bed (1944) (uncredited) [George, FBI Agent]
Mr. Skeffington (1944) [Thatcher]
Destination Tokyo (1943) [Torpedo Gunnery Officer]
The Hard Way (1943) (uncredited) [Radio Announcer]
Princess O'Rourke (1943) (uncredited) [Second Airline Dispatcher]
Northern Pursuit (1943) (uncredited) [Mountie]
Mission to Moscow (1943) [American Newsman]
Murder on the Waterfront (1943) [First Officer Barnes]
Truck Busters (1943) [Tim Shaughnessy]
Now, Voyager (1942) [Hamilton Hunneker]
Flying Fortress (1942) (uncredited) [Manhattan News radio announcer]
Buses Roar (1942) [The Moocher]
Highway West (1941) (uncredited) [Cop in crash]

Heroes:

"DeMille was a God, as was Cukor. I don't know if any current directors can last the years like Huston."