Joe Patroni, err, George Kennedy, dead at 91

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George Kennedy has died:

George Kennedy, the burly character actor who won an Academy Award as a chain-gang leader in Cool Hand Luke, threatened Audrey Hepburn as a hook-armed villain in Charade and was a crusty mainstay of 1970s disaster films before veering into satire as a clueless policeman in the Naked Gun film series, died Feb. 28 at a nursing home in Middleton, Idaho. He was 91.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/george-kennedy-oscar-winning-character-actor-of-cool-hand-luke-dies-at-91/2016/02/29/f4451a92-df2f-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html

Looks like a Kennedy marathon for me tonight. RIP, Mr Patroni.
 
I met him in the late 70's when I worked at Neiman Marcus in Dallas.  He was a BIG man...super nice though. 
 
Great character actor and was in one of my all time favorite Clint Eastwood movies, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
 
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