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Don Kennedy
Born	Donald Kennedy June 8, 1920 (1920-06-08) (age 89) Beaver, Pennsylvania,  United States
Years active	1950-present

Donald (Don) Kennedy, (aka Derrick Slaugenhaupt), (born June 8, 1920 in Beaver, Pennsylvania), was a film and television actor whose career began in the late 1940s with television westerns.^[1][2] He is remembered as Officer Don, the host of the long-running Atlanta children's TV show The Popeye Club (circa 1950s to the 1970s).^[3][4] He is most recently remembered for his voicework playing Tansit in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Brak Show, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He currently hosts Big Band Jump, an internationally-syndicated radio show devoted to music from the Big Band era.

Partial filmography

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (3 episodes, 2001) (TV) as Assisted Living Dracula, Vegetable Man & Rubberman (Lance)
• The Brak Show (2001-2003, 2007) (TV) as Morlun, Poppy
• Acme Radio Hour (1995) (TV)
• King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: 'It Was Beauty Killed the Beast' (1992) (V)
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast (various episodes, 1994–1999) (TV) as Tansit, Bill Manspeaker
• Messenger of Death (1988)
• Starman (1987) (TV)
• Simon & Simon 1986) (TV)
• The Monkees (2 episodes, 1966–1968) (TV)
• The Wild Wild West (1965) (TV)
• Kraft Suspense Theatre "2 episodes, 1964–1965) (TV)
• The Baileys of Balboa (1964) (TV)
• Breaking Point (1964) (TV)
• Temple Houston (1964) (TV)
• Hud (1963) .... Charlie Tucker
• The Dakotas (1963) (TV)
• Laramie (2 episodes, 1960–1963) (TV)
• Shannon (1962) (TV)
• Bronco (1962) (TV)
• Tales of Wells Fargo (2 episodes, 1958–1962) (TV)
• Hazel (1962) (TV)
• Adventures in Paradise (1961) (TV)
• The Tall Man (2 episodes, 1960–1961) (TV)
• Maverick (2 episodes, 1960–1961) (TV)
• The Dick Powell Show (1961) (TV)
• Spring Affair (1960)
• Stagecoach West (1960) (TV)
• The Man and the Challenge (2 episodes, 1959–1960) (TV)
• Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960) (TV)
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (3 episodes, 1958–1959) (TV)
• Bat Masterson (2 episodes, 1959) (TV)
• Tombstone Territory (1959) (TV)
• Men Into Space (1959) (TV)
• Wichita Town (1959) (TV)
• Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1959) (TV)
• The Californians (1959) (TV)
• The Restless Gun (1958) (TV)
• The Rifleman (1958) (TV)
• The Millionaire (1958) (TV)
• The Gale Storm Show (2 episodes, 1958) (TV)
• Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958) (TV)
• Tales of the Texas Rangers (1957) (TV)
• M Squad (1957) (TV)
• Zane Grey Theater (1957) (TV)
• The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956) (TV)
• Frontier (1956) (TV)
• My Friend Flicka (1956) (YV)
• The Loretta Young Show (1956) (TV)
• The Man Behind the Badge (1955) (TV)
• An Annapolis Story (1955)
• Stories of the Century (2 episodes, 1954–1955) (TV)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (5 episodes, 1952–1955) (TV)
• Annie Oakley " (1954) (TV)
• Cavalcade of America (1954) (TV)
• Death Valley Days (1954) (TV)
• Hopalong Cassidy (1954) (TV)
• You Are There (1953) (TV)
• Man Against Crime " (1952) (TV)
• The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950) (TV)

References

External links

• Don Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database

• Don's syndicated radio show Big Band Jump - http://bigbandjump.com/