I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

He made other minor films including Savage Dawn The Delta Force and Creepshow 2 before connecting in the comedy hit The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! in 1988 playing Captain Ed Hocken opposite Leslie Nielsen's comical cop Frank Drebin. He was raised by his mother Helen A. He then appeared in several prominent Hollywood movies including Charade (1963) opposite Cary Grant Audrey Hepburn Walter Matthau and James Coburn; "Strait-Jacket" (1964) opposite Joan Crawford and Diane Baker 1964's Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte opposite Bette Davis and in such popular 1965 films as the crash-survivor drama The Flight of the Phoenix with James Stewart and the war story In Harm's Way with John Wayne.

(born February 18 1925) is an American actor who has appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions. George Harris Kennedy Jr.