George Kennedy

He starred in the series from 1988 - 1991. He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). On television, Kennedy played Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas (1978 - 1991). Among the films he has starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White (1996). He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Cool Hand Luke (1967). It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi movie Salute of the Jugger (1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the comedy Crooklyn (1994). Kennedy began his film career in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

He became a technical advisor for the television series Sergeant Bilko. His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady (1976) followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. 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. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. Kennedy was born into a show business family and made his stage debut at the age of two; he then became a radio performer. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor.

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. Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. George Kennedy (born February 18, 1925 in New York City) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). Truce (2004). The Core (2003). Bayou Ghost (1997). Cider House Rules (1999).

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). A Life Less Ordinary (1997). The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991). Black and White (1996). The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988). Get Shorty (1996). Creepshow 2 (1987). Malcolm X (1992).

The Delta Force (1986). Salute of the Jugger (1990). The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979). More American Graffitti (1979). Airport '77 (1977). Find the Lady (1976). 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).