Don Kennedy

Don Kennedy
Born	Donald Kennedy June 8, 1920 (1920-06-08) (age 91) Beaver, Pennsylvania,  United States
Years active	1950-present

Donald (Don) Kennedy, (aka Derrick Slaugenhaupt), (born June 8, 1920 in Beaver, Pennsylvania), is a radio,^[1] film and television actor whose career began in the late 1940s with a radio announcer spot on PA station WPIC.^[2][3]

In the mid-1950s Don was a contributor to NBC's Monitor radio show where he developed several characters, including one named Goat-man.^[4]

He is remembered as Officer Don, the host of the long-running Atlanta children's TV show The Popeye Club (1956 to 1970).^[5][6][7]

During his time at the Popeye Club, Don established WKLS, an FM Atlanta radio station, serving as station President and General Manager. It's rumored that the K in the call letters was for his last name.

He is recently known for his voicework playing Tansit in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and several characters on 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.

Don is the recipient of several awards including the Silver Circle Award, two Emmys, awards from Pioneer Broadcaster and Georgia Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame, and honorary membership in the Di Gamma Kappa Broadcast Fraternity at the University of Georgia.

Adding to all of his achievements, Don continues to support causes including President of the Georgia Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy, treasurer of the Atlanta Humane Society, board member of the Atlanta Cancer Society, as well as volunteering as a reader for the Georgia Radio Reading Service for the Blind.

Partial filmography

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (various episodes, 2001–2010) (TV) as Assisted Living Dracula, Vegetable Man & Rubberman (Lance Potter)
• The Brak Show (2001–2003) (TV) as Morlun, Poppy
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast (various episodes, 1994–1999) (TV) as Tansit, Bill Manspeaker
• Acme Radio Hour (1995) (TV)
• King Kong 60th Anniversary Special: 'It Was Beauty Killed the Beast' (1992) (V)
• 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

1. ^ "The Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame". GRHoF. http://www.grhof.com/07%20CAI%20DON%20KENNEDY.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
2. ^ "Don Kennedy" (in Swedish). Svenska Filminstitutet. http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film/Filmdatabasen/?type=PERSON&itemid=87534. Retrieved 2009-07-13. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "Don Kennedy". Movietome. http://www.movietome.com/people/38011/don-kennedy/credits.html. Retrieved 2009-07-13. 
4. ^ "Monitor Memories". Monitor Beacon. http://www.monitorbeacon.net/memories/kennedy.html. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
5. ^ "Officer Don - Ooey Gooey". Atlanta Time Machine. http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/misc/ooeygooey.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
6. ^ "Thousands expected for superhero and sci-fi weekend". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. July 19, 1986. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7C2342F9AF84F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2009-07-13. 
7. ^ "Officer Don's walking a new beat - video". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. December 15, 1987. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7C309F44E962B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2009-07-13. 

External links

• Don Kennedy at the Internet Movie Database
• Don's syndicated radio show Big Band Jump

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Name	Kennedy, Don
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Date of birth	1920-06-08
Place of birth	Beaver, Pennsylvania,
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