Douglas Kennedy (actor) Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Later, Kennedy portrayed the sheriff, Fred Madden, of ABC’s The Big Valley, with Barbara Stanwyck. He made his last appearance in 1973 in three episodes of CBS’s Hawaii Five-O, with Jack Lord.

On January 12, 1959, Kennedy appeared in the episode “Shadow of a Gunfighter” of the NBC western series The Restless Gun. He plays a former gunfighter, Cal Winfield, who is informed that Vint Bonner, (John Payne), is responsible for the death of Winfield’s son. Cal Winfield then comes out of retirement to extract vengeance. Robert Fuller appears in the episode as Jim Winfield.

Kennedy played the role of Jay Brisco in the 1959 episode “Law West of the Pecos” of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45. Frank Ferguson portrayed Judge Roy Bean, and Lisa Gaye was cast as June Webster.

In 1958, he appeared as Steven Boles in the Perry Mason episode “The Case of The Lucky Loser”. In 1960, he appeared as the murderer Lucky Sterling in Perry Mason episode ‘The Case of the Wary Wildcatter’. In 1965, he appeared as Brady Duncan in the Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Fatal Fetish”.

In 1958, Kennedy appeared in Jim Davis’ second series, Rescue 8 in the episode “Calamity Coach”. In the story line, rescuers Wes Cameron (Davis) and Skip Johnson (Lang Jeffries) work to rescue three actors on location when a stagecoach tumbles down a mountain.

In the 1957 (season one) Perry Mason episode ‘The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink’ he played the part of Det. Sgt. Jaffrey, eventually revealed as the murderer.

He played the gunfighter William P. Longley in a 1954 episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.

Kennedy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dion W. Kennedy. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and afterwards graduated from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He served in the U. S. Army from 1940 to 1945.

Kennedy was a character player and occasional leading man in Hollywood. Making his debut in 1935, he played a significant number of supporting roles and was able to secure contract-player status, first at Paramount Pictures and later at Warner Brothers.

Douglas Richards Kennedy (September 14, 1915 – August 10, 1973) was an American supporting actor originally from New York City who appeared in more than 190 films between 1935 and 1973.