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Alma mater
  
DePauw University

Name
  
Adam Kennedy

Role
  
Actor


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Born
  
March 10, 1922 (
1922-03-10
)
Otterbein, Indiana, U.S.

Occupation
  
Actor (The Californians), Novelist, Screenwriter, Painter

Died
  
October 16, 1997, Kent, Connecticut, United States

Spouse
  
Susan Adams Kennedy (m. ?–1997)

Books
  
The domino vendetta, All Dreams Denied

Children
  
Jack Kennedy, Regan Kennedy, Anne Kennedy Stromsted

Movies and TV shows
  
Raise the Titanic, The Californians, Men in War, The Dove, Bailout at 43 - 000

Similar People
  
Jerry Jameson, David Selby, Lew Grade - Baron Grade, Charles Jarrott, Peter S Beagle

Adam Kennedy (March 10, 1922 – October 16, 1997) was an American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and painter, who starred as the Irish-American newspaper editor Dion Patrick during the first season, 1957–1958, of NBC's western television series, The Californians. Set in the San Francisco, California, of the 1850s, Patrick in the story line works with the vigilantes to restore order from the unrest created by the miners, the Forty-Niners.

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Early years

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Originally from Otterbein near Lafayette, Indiana, Kennedy graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He studied acting under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.

Kennedy's first acting role, though uncredited was at the age of thirty-three as Yip Ryan, a United States Army pilot in the 1955 film, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell. The film also starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell and Dayton Lummis as General Douglas MacArthur.

In 1956 and 1957, he appeared in three episodes of the religion anthology series, Crossroads: as Don in "God's Healing", as Ed Buckley in "Paratroop Padre", and as Art Jackson in the series finale, "Half Mile Down". During this same period of time, Kennedy was cast as Benton in the episode "In a Small Motel" on the Chevron Hall of Stars and in "Outpost" on the H.J. Heinz Company's Studio 57.

In 1957, he appeared in two syndicated series about the United States Navy: Men of Annapolis ("Mister Number Five") and The Silent Service ("The Spearfish Delivers"). That same year, he appeared in another anthology, CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater as Adam Dempster in the episode "A Man on the Run".

Acting career

Cast in The Californians, Kennedy appeared in such episodes as "Skeleton in the Closet", "Pipeline", "The Foundling", "Second Trial", "The Inner Circle", "The Golden Bride", "Murietta", "Shanghai Queen", "Bridal Bouquet", and "Golden Grapes", his final segment on the program aired on June 17, 1958. His co-stars were Sean McClory and Herbert Rudley.

Between 1955 and 1958, Kennedy appeared in four different roles in the CBS anthology series Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: as Charlie in "The Careless Cadet", as George in "Always the Best Man", as Johnnie in "The Blue Hotel", and as Steve Elliot in "The Trouble with Ruth". He appeared too in 1959 with Mary Astor, Suzanne Pleshette, and Inger Stevens in the episode "Diary of a Nurse" of CBS's Playhouse 90.

He appeared twice on the half-hour version of CBS's Gunsmoke: as Andy Travis in "Kite's Reward" (1955) and as Bert Wells in "Gentleman's Disagreement" (1960). In 1962, he appeared as Sam Hagen in the episode "Stopover in Paradise" of another CBS western, Frontier Circus, starring Chill Wills. In 1965, he appeared as Brock Hayden in the NBC soap opera The Doctors. His final screen role was an uncredited part in the 1980 television movie, Act of Love, starring Ron Howard and Robert Foxworth and directed by Jud Taylor.

Death and legacy

After his acting career ended, Kennedy adapted a novel into a screenplay for Stanley Kramer's 1977 film, The Domino Principle, which stars Gene Hackman as a convict who becomes an assassin. Kennedy wrote nine other screenplays, including Raise the Titanic, The Dove and Barlow's Kingdom. He penned twenty novels, including The Killing Season (1967), Maggie D. (1973), Just Like Humphrey Bogart (1978), The Fires of Summer (1987) and Somebody's Fool (1993). Kennedy's oil paintings and watercolors have been displayed in the United States and Europe. In 1952, he was hailed in Paris as that city's most influential American painter.

Kennedy was married twice, first to the model Barbara Lee, with whom he had two sons, Regan Kennedy, living in New York City at the time of his father's death, and Jack Kennedy, of Santa Barbara, California. He also had a daughter, Anne Kennedy Stromsted of Norway, with the actress Liv Stromsted. At his death he was married to the actress and radio host Susan Adams. According to his former agent, Kennedy died at the age of seventy-five of a heart attack at home in Kent in Litchfield County in western Connecticut.

Filmography

Actor
1980
Act of Love (TV Movie)(uncredited)
1964
The Doctors (TV Series) as
Brock Hayden
1962
The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- The White Lie (1962)
1962
The Doctors and the Nurses (TV Series) as
Dr. Parsons
- Night Shift (1962) - Dr. Parsons
1962
Frontier Circus (TV Series) as
Sam Hagen
- Stopover in Paradise (1962) - Sam Hagen
1960
Lock Up (TV Series) as
Ben Tracy
- Society Doctor (1960) - Ben Tracy
1955
Gunsmoke (TV Series) as
Bert / Andy Travis
- Gentleman's Disagreement (1960) - Bert
- Kite's Reward (1955) - Andy Travis
1959
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) as
Chief Resident
- Diary of a Nurse (1959) - Chief Resident
1955
Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) as
Steve Elliot / Johnnie / George / ...
- The Trouble with Ruth (1958) - Steve Elliot
- The Blue Hotel (1957) - Johnnie
- Always the Best Man (1956) - George
- The Careless Cadet (1955) - Charlie King
1957
The Californians (TV Series) as
Dion Patrick
- Sorley Boy (1958) - Dion Patrick
- The Duel (1958) - Dion Patrick
- The Man from Paris (1958) - Dion Patrick
- The Alice Pritchard Case (1958) - Dion Patrick
- Mr. Valejo (1958) - Dion Patrick
- China Doll (1958) - Dion Patrick
- Panic on Montgomery Street (1958) - Dion Patrick
- The Coward (1958) - Dion Patrick
- The PO 8 (1957) - Dion Patrick
- Truce of the Tree (1957) - Dion Patrick
- Strange Quarantine (1957) - Dion Patrick
- Little Lost Man (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Magic Box (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Barber's Boy (1957) - Dion Patrick
- Man from Boston (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Regulators (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Lost Queue (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Search for Lucy Manning (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Avenger (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Noose (1957) - Dion Patrick
- All That Glitters (1957) - Dion Patrick
- The Vigilantes Begin (1957) - Dion Patrick
1957
Men of Annapolis (TV Series) as
Phillip Jordan
- Mr. Number Five (1957) - Phillip Jordan
1957
The Tall Stranger as
Red
1957
Until They Sail as
Andy, Delia's Lover
1957
Zane Grey Theatre (TV Series) as
Adam Dempster
- Man on the Run (1957) - Adam Dempster
1957
Bailout at 43,000 as
Lieutenant Ed Simmons
1955
Crossroads (TV Series) as
Ed Buckley / Art Jackson / Don
- The Healing (1957) - Art Jackson
- The Light (1957) - Ed Buckley
- Paratroop Padre (1957) - Ed Buckley
- God's Healing (1956) - Don
- Vivi Shining Bright (1955)
1957
The Silent Service (TV Series) as
Lt. Austin
- The U.S.S. Spearfish Delivers (1957) - Lt. Austin
1957
Men in War as
Pvt. Maslow
1957
Studio 57 (TV Series)
- Outpost (1957)
1956
The Forest Ranger (TV Movie) as
David Erickson
1956
Tension at Table Rock as
Jethro (uncredited)
1956
Chevron Hall of Stars (TV Series) as
Benton
- In a Small Motel (1956) - Benton
- Cold Harbor (1956)
1955
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell as
Yip Ryan (uncredited)
Writer
1980
Raise the Titanic (screenplay)
1977
The Domino Principle (novel) / (screenplay)
1974
The Dove (screenplay)

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