Today is the birthday of comic character actor Tom Kennedy (1885-1965). Like Edgar Kennedy, to whom he is no relation, he started out in the fight game; boxing provided his entree into show business. According to Brent Walker’s Mack Sennett’s Fun Factory Kennedy had sparred with Jack Johnson in vaudeville for several weeks in 1910. He found […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:58AM on July 15, 2013