Oscar-Winning ‘Cool Hand Luke’ Actor George Kennedy Dead

US actor George Kennedy, who starred in movies including Cool Hand Luke and the Naked Gun series, has died at the age of 91.
•    George Harris Kennedy, was an American actor who appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions. 
•    He is best remembered for portraying "Dragline" opposite Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture.
•    After a brief appearance in the 1960 film Spartacus, his film career began in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. 
•    He appeared in several Hollywood movies, including Charade (1963), Strait-Jacket (1964), Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and in Harm's Way (1965).
•    He made numerous television appearances on such shows as The Asphalt Jungle, The Andy Griffith Show, Peter Gunn, The Untouchables, Bonanza, Maverick, McHale's Navy, Gunsmoke and Route 66. 
•    For his contributions to motion pictures, Kennedy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6352 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.