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Actor in a Supporting Role
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Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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Awards and honors. In 1949, Kennedy won a Tony Award for best supporting actor as Biff in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Morosco Theatre. The New York Film Critics named him Best Actor for Bright Victory (1951). His performance in Trial won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
1950 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Champion. Golden Globes, USA. 1956 Winner Golden Globe. Best Supporting Actor. Trial. 1952 Nominee Golden Globe. Best Actor - Drama. Bright Victory. Laurel Awards. 1960 Nominee Golden Laurel. Top Male Supporting Performance.
- February 17, 1914
- January 5, 1990
Although he was not selected to recreate the role on screen, he won one Best Actor and four Best Supporting Academy Award nominations between 1949 and 1959 and ranked as one of Hollywood's finest players. Born John Arthur Kennedy to a dentist and his wife on February 17, 1914 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Branford, Connecticut, USA
Although he was not selected to recreate the role on screen, he won one Best Actor and four Best Supporting Academy Award nominations between 1949 and 1959 and ranked as one of Hollywood's finest players. Born John Arthur Kennedy to a dentist and his wife on February 17, 1914 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He was nominated for Academy Awards for his acting in Champion (1949), Bright Victory (1951), Trial (1955), Peyton Place (1957), and Some Came Running (1959). On Broadway, Kennedy appeared in several Arthur Miller plays and won a 1949 Tony award for his role as Biff in Death of a Salesman; he was featured in the title role of Becket in 1960.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 5, 1990 · He won the 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Miller's Death of a Salesman. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the 1955 film Trial, and was a five-time Academy Award nominee.
Jan 7, 1990 · Advertisement. He won a Tony Award in 1949 for the Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and a New York Film Critics Award for best actor in the 1951 film “Bright...
