Arthur Kennedy, one of the premier character actors in American film from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, achieved fame in the role of Biff in 'Elia Kazan' . He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Lequille, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Lequille, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Four of Kennedys five Oscar-nominated performances were directed by Mark Robson: Champion , Bright Victory , Trial , and Peyton Place . His fifth nod, for Some Came Running was directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Edmond OBrien was originally cast as Jackson Bentley in Lawrence of Arabia . After OBrien filmed several scenes, he suffered a heart attack and had to be replaced. Kennedy was recommended to director David Lean by Anthony Quinn , whom Kennedy had replaced on Broadway in the role of King Henry II in the play "Beckett".
In 1936, while a struggling actor in New York, Kennedy roomed with David Wayne , Ben Yaffeem, and several others in a West Seventies brownstone.
Kennedy twice played Alexander Hamilton on television.
Kennedys actress daughter Laurie won a Tony nomination in 1979 for "Man and Superman.".
Alhough his name appears on the video box for the Italian film "Trauma" (aka "Enigma Rosso" and "Rings of Fear"), hes not in the film or in its credits.
His character Jackson Bentley, newspaper man & film maker, in Lawrence of Arabia is a fictionalized version of real life "discoverer" of T.E. Lawrence, Lowell Thomas.
[on Henry Hathaway] A walking encyclopedia of the business. Away from,work, he was delightful, but on the set, a holy terror!.
