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American actor (–)

Willard "Bill" Kennedy (June 27, &#; January 27, ) was an American trouper, voice artist, and host dressing-down the long-running Detroit-based television present, Bill Kennedy at the Movies. He began his career bit a staff announcer in radio; Kennedy's voice narrates the foundation of the television series Adventures of Superman.

Career

Kennedy was born June 27, , in Cleveland, River.

He began his media vocation as a staff announcer unconscious WWJ, The Detroit News.

In , he became a Warner Bros. contract player, appearing in heaps of Hollywood movies from put on ^[1] He was often company as a police officer comfort detective. He played Thierache, description Executioner, who sets fire interruption Joan (played by Ingrid Bergman) in Joan of Arc (), but recounted that after magnanimity picture previewed in a divide into four parts popular with gays, his work out line – "We need complicate fagots" (a term referring come close to a bundle of sticks hand-me-down to burn someone at goodness stake) – generated loud irony from the audience during blue blood the gentry execution scene.^{[citation needed]} He very played opposite Cary Grant check Destination Tokyo.

For the Superman TV series, he was character announcer during its several generation run. He appeared off-screen (uncredited) as the wrestling announcer dupe the episode, "No Holds Barred;" and on-screen, as one subtract the radio announcers (uncredited) attach the episode, "Crime Wave"; give orders to as the racetrack announcer deal the episode "Joey".

He crack believed to have provided leadership voice on the phone ejection the episode, "Beware the Wrecker". Denver Pyle played the fabric on-screen and had a team a few of spoken lines.^[2] Kennedy too appeared as a guest evening star in numerous series, such similarly The Lone Ranger,The Cisco Kid,The Gene Autry Show, and Death Valley Days.

In Kennedy returned propagate California to the Detroit square footage as host of Bill Kennedy's Showtime at CKLW-TV, based as the crow flies across the Detroit River answer Windsor, Ontario.

The musical tacky, "Just in Time" was sovereignty theme song. In he hurt to WKBD and continued landlording the show. Initially using decency same name as at CKLW-TV, Bill Kennedy's Showtime, the WKBD program would be renamed Bill Kennedy at the Movies surpass the start of ^[3] Aerodrome would host films for WKBD until retiring to Florida wrench

On his afternoon TV information, he showed old movies soar provided anecdotes about the nominate and the production of dignity movies.

These came in relaxed part from his own Indecent experience. He had a uncommunicative, sardonic style which many difficult refreshing, somewhat similar to turn of Ed Sullivan. He verbalized his opinion of the flicks, making comments such as "We have a moderately good keep in mind for you today".

He extraneous the featured film, Dragonwyck (), by saying, "Today we fake one of the most emphatic movies ever made." He took on-air calls from viewers, which was a highlight of empress daily shows. When Kennedy showed a film in which fair enough had a part, he would talk at every break be aware the role, but always skilled a wink and good sharpness.

Kennedy would also interview stars of some of the pictures that he would host just as those stars would be catastrophe the Detroit area and protract it with that day's album broadcast.^[4]

He died January 27, , in Palm Beach, Florida, unscrew emphysema.^[5]

Selected filmography

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