The best George Kennedy’s comedy movies

George Kennedy

George Kennedy

18/02/1925- 28/02/2016
We present our ranking of the best George Kennedy’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about George Kennedy.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/12/1988
  • Character: Capt. Ed Hocken
When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/06/1991
  • Character: Captain Ed Hocken
Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

Creepshow 2

Creepshow 2
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/05/1987
  • Character: Ray Spruce
EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed...or did she really kill him?

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/03/1994
  • Character: Ed Hocken
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

Small Soldiers

Small Soldiers
6.3/10
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
7/10
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

Charade

Charade
7.8/10
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

Cats Don't Dance

Cats Don't Dance
6.9/10
Danny, an ambitious singing/dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again!
4.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 14/07/1998
  • Character: Mr. Johnson
Barricade the doors. Lock the windows. Because he's baaaack. That one-boy wrecking crew, Dennis the Menace, returns for more mischief and mayhem. Based on the comic strip and TV show about a mischievous little boy with a gift for the potentially lethal prank.

View from the Top

View from the Top
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/03/2003
  • Character: Passenger Requesting Vodka (uncredited)
A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.

Another Happy Day

Another Happy Day
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/11/2011
  • Character: Joe Baker
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

Modern Romance

Modern Romance
7/10
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.

Radioactive Dreams

Radioactive Dreams
5.5/10
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.

Wacko

Wacko
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 12/11/1982
  • Character: Mr. Doctor Graves
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.

Fools' Parade

Fools' Parade
6.4/10
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.

The Ballad of Josie

The Ballad of Josie
5.7/10
A frontier widow (Doris Day) aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher (George Kennedy) in old Wyoming.

The Boneyard Collection

The Boneyard Collection
3.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/01/2008
  • Character: Professor Zebediah Jones (segment "The Devil's Due at Midnight")
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock band booked to play a gig in a town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the second one, THE DEVIL'S DUE AT MIDNIGHT, a coven of beautiful witches conjure up Brad Dourif as The Devil, and endures the inept attacks of witch killer Ken Foree. In the first long segment, HER MORBID DESIRES, an actress gets the lead role in a vampire movie, only to discover that starlets are being murdered on the set. The other long segment, CRY OF THE MUMMY, has the reincarnated mummy, formerly the last Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty, looking to sue the movie studios because he can't get work as a mummy. His new lawyer offers to represent him as an agent, but the mummy will only work in film if he can direct.

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
6.1/10
Older lawman Marshal Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is struggling to transition from the Old West to the more modernized one -- so much so that Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam) forces him into retirement. Not one to go away easily, Flagg quickly fixates on his old nemesis, McKay (George Kennedy), formerly believed to be dead, who is now back in town and up to no good. But Flagg soon discovers that McKay might be his greatest ally in a fight to prove that the old-timers aren't useless in the New West.

Gaily, Gaily

Gaily, Gaily
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1969
  • Character: Axel P. Johanson
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.

Men in White

Men in White
2.8/10
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science fiction movies, mainly spoofing Men in Black and Independence Day. It debuted in 1998 on the Fox Family Channel.

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