Adam Kennedy (March 10, 1922 â€" October 16, 1997) was an American
actor, screenwriter, novelist, and painter, who starred as the
Irish-American newspaper editor Dion Patrick during the first season,
1957â€"1958, of NBC's western television series, The Californians. Set
in the San Francisco, California, of the 1850s, Patrick in the story
line works with the vigilantes to restore order from the unrest
created by the miners, the Forty-Niners.Originally from Otterbein near
Lafayette, Indiana, Kennedy graduated from DePauw University in
Greencastle, Indiana. He studied acting under Sanford Meisner at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.Kennedy's first acting role,
though uncredited was at the age of thirty-three as Yip Ryan, a United
States Army pilot in the 1955 film, The Court-Martial of Billy
Mitchell. The film also starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell and
Dayton Lummis as General Douglas MacArthur.In 1956 and 1957, he
appeared in three episodes of the religiously themed anthology series
Crossroads: as Don in "God's Healing"; as Ed Buckley in "Paratroop
Padre"; and as Art Jackson in the series finale, "Half Mile Down".
During this same period of time, Kennedy was cast as Benton in the
episode "In a Small Motel" on the Chevron Hall of Stars and in
"Outpost" on the H.J. Heinz Company's Studio 57.
actor, screenwriter, novelist, and painter, who starred as the
Irish-American newspaper editor Dion Patrick during the first season,
1957â€"1958, of NBC's western television series, The Californians. Set
in the San Francisco, California, of the 1850s, Patrick in the story
line works with the vigilantes to restore order from the unrest
created by the miners, the Forty-Niners.Originally from Otterbein near
Lafayette, Indiana, Kennedy graduated from DePauw University in
Greencastle, Indiana. He studied acting under Sanford Meisner at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.Kennedy's first acting role,
though uncredited was at the age of thirty-three as Yip Ryan, a United
States Army pilot in the 1955 film, The Court-Martial of Billy
Mitchell. The film also starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell and
Dayton Lummis as General Douglas MacArthur.In 1956 and 1957, he
appeared in three episodes of the religiously themed anthology series
Crossroads: as Don in "God's Healing"; as Ed Buckley in "Paratroop
Padre"; and as Art Jackson in the series finale, "Half Mile Down".
During this same period of time, Kennedy was cast as Benton in the
episode "In a Small Motel" on the Chevron Hall of Stars and in
"Outpost" on the H.J. Heinz Company's Studio 57.
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