Leslie Howard

His younger brother, Arthur, was also an actor, primarily in British comedies. He starred in the series from 1988 - 1991. Howard was married to Ruth Martin in 1916, they had two children, a son, Ronald, and a daughter, Leslie Ruth. On television, Kennedy played Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas (1978 - 1991). In 1943, he visited Lisbon (some say on a secret mission), and, on the return flight, his plane was shot down by enemy forces, possibly because the Germans believed the prime minister, Winston Churchill, to be on board. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Cool Hand Luke (1967). This image helped win him the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind (1939), but he was uncomfortable with Hollywood and returned to Britain to help with the war effort. Kennedy began his film career in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.

Howard and Bogart became lifelong friends, the Bogarts named their daughter Leslie Howard after him. He became a technical advisor for the television series Sergeant Bilko. They had appeared in the play together on Broadway. After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry. It was Howard who insisted that Humphrey Bogart appear in the film as gangster, Duke Manatee. He put aside show business during World War II and spent 16 years in the United States Army, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. In 1936, Howard appeared in the film Petrified Forest. Kennedy was born into a show business family and made his stage debut at the age of two; he then became a radio performer.

Howard proceeded to play stiff-upper-lipped Englishmen in films such as Berkeley Square (1933, for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Pygmalion (1938) (in which he played Professor Higgins, and earned another Oscar nomination), and Pimpernel Smith (1941). He is widely familiar as Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, or more recently as Captain Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun trilogy.
Davis and Howard in Maugham's
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Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991). The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988). Creepshow 2 (1987).

The Delta Force (1986). The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979). Airport '77 (1977). Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).

Earthquake (1974). Airport 1975 (1974). Marshal (1973). Cahill U.S.

Cool Hand Luke (1967). The Dirty Dozen (1967). The Sons of Katie Elder (1965). Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).

Hush.. McHale's Navy (1964). The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961).