Rigg Kennedy
Encyclopedia
Rigg Kennedy is an American
character actor
.
Kennedy's career began in theater and episodic television, including appearances in The Fall Guy
, Big Bad Beetleborgs/Beetleborgs Metallix
, Matt Houston
and Days of our Lives
.
His film work includes roles in Rod Lurie
's Deterrence
, Maid to Order
starring Ally Sheedy
, and the seminal slasher flick Slumber Party Massacre
. Notable recent performances include Thomas Mesereau
in E!
's Michael Jackson
Trial Reenactments, Dr. George Emerson in Swarm of the Snakehead
, and an autobiographical one-man poetry show called RIGGWORDS.
Rigg has extensive theater credits and has studied with José Quintero
, Frank Silvera
, Beah Richards
, Maya Angelou
, Corey Allen
, Luther James, Frank Bolger, Ned Manderino. Rigg also studied at Johns Hopkins
under editor-biographer-translator-scholar Joycean-Proustian and distinguished poet, Elliott Coleman in their Writing Seminar. Rigg is also a published poet currently performing his one-man show, RIGGWORDS, on tour.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
character actor
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...
.
Kennedy's career began in theater and episodic television, including appearances in The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981 to May 2, 1986. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas. Majors and Barr are the only two actors to appear in all 112 episodes of the series...
, Big Bad Beetleborgs/Beetleborgs Metallix
Big Bad Beetleborgs
Big Bad Beetleborgs is an American television series produced by Saban Entertainment. It aired for two seasons on Fox Kids between September 7, 1996 and March 2, 1998. Reruns later aired on UPN Kids during 1998-1999...
, Matt Houston
Matt Houston
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.-Synopsis:...
and Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
.
His film work includes roles in Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic.-Early life and career:The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Honolulu,...
's Deterrence
Deterrence (film)
Deterrence is a 1999 French/American dramatic film written and directed by Rod Lurie, depicting fictional events about nuclear brinksmanship. It marks the feature directorial debut of Lurie, who was previously a film critic for the New York Daily News, Premiere Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and...
, Maid to Order
Maid to Order
Maid to Order is a 1987 comedy/fantasy film starring Ally Sheedy.-Plot:Rich and spoiled twenty something Jessie Montgomery winds up in jail after a life of wild partying...
starring Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy
Alexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an American film and stage actress, as well as the author of two books. She is best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.-Early life:...
, and the seminal slasher flick Slumber Party Massacre
Slumber Party Massacre
The Slumber Party Massacre is a 1982 slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown.-Plot:Trish Devereaux , an 18 year old teen decides to throw a slumber party while her parents are away and their neighbor Mr. Contant is given the job of checking in on the girls during...
. Notable recent performances include Thomas Mesereau
Thomas Mesereau
Thomas Arthur Mesereau, Jr. is an American attorney best known for defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial.-The Robert Blake murder trial:...
in E!
E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
's Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
Trial Reenactments, Dr. George Emerson in Swarm of the Snakehead
Swarm of the Snakehead
Swarm of the Snakehead is a 2006 comedy/horror feature film directed by Frank A. Lama and Joel C. Denning and written by Seth Hurwitz. It is the first feature from producers Lama and Hurwitz's Baltimore-based production company Ten Pound Films....
, and an autobiographical one-man poetry show called RIGGWORDS.
Rigg has extensive theater credits and has studied with José Quintero
José Quintero
José Benjamin Quintero was a Panamanian theatre director, producer and pedagogue best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene O'Neill.-Early years:...
, Frank Silvera
Frank Silvera
Frank Alvin Silvera was an American actor and theatrical director.-Career:Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica to a Spanish Jewish father and Jamaican mother. His family later emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston where Silvera attended English High School and Northeastern Law School...
, Beah Richards
Beah Richards
Beah Richards was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was a poet, playwright and author....
, Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
, Corey Allen
Corey Allen
Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He may be best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause...
, Luther James, Frank Bolger, Ned Manderino. Rigg also studied at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated...
under editor-biographer-translator-scholar Joycean-Proustian and distinguished poet, Elliott Coleman in their Writing Seminar. Rigg is also a published poet currently performing his one-man show, RIGGWORDS, on tour.
Filmography
The Break-Up Artist ...Mike- FROGTOWN (2007)........ Parson Hammond
- Chasing Tchaikovsky (2007) .... Harold
- Swarm of the SnakeheadSwarm of the SnakeheadSwarm of the Snakehead is a 2006 comedy/horror feature film directed by Frank A. Lama and Joel C. Denning and written by Seth Hurwitz. It is the first feature from producers Lama and Hurwitz's Baltimore-based production company Ten Pound Films....
(2006) .... Dr. Emerson (Eccentric Microbiologist) - Violence at Work (2005) .... Reg Bogeman (Psychopath)
- "The Michael Jackson Trial Re-enactments" .... Defense Attorney Thomas MesereauThomas MesereauThomas Arthur Mesereau, Jr. is an American attorney best known for defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial.-The Robert Blake murder trial:...
,Jr. (E-Entertainment Channel, USA--BSKYB,London (Broadcast in more than 100 countries: Feb. 25--June 13, 2005) - Kept (2001) .... Jules...(gay,world-famous architect) aka Playback (USA)
- DeterrenceDeterrence (film)Deterrence is a 1999 French/American dramatic film written and directed by Rod Lurie, depicting fictional events about nuclear brinksmanship. It marks the feature directorial debut of Lurie, who was previously a film critic for the New York Daily News, Premiere Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and...
(1999) .... Howard (Chief- White House Communications)(w/Kevin Pollak & Timothy Hutton) - Silent Scream (1999) ....LAPDLos Angeles Police DepartmentThe Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
Homicide Detective (in love with Dana PlatoDana PlatoDana Michelle Plato was an American actress notable for playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.Plato appeared in over 100 television commercials as a young girl...
)...(w/ Joe Estevez) - 4 Second Delay (1998) .... Bob WoodwardBob WoodwardRobert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the Post....
(Prix du Jury, Festival du Cinema Americain de Deauville, Atlanta and Colorado Film Festivals + 4 other festival's prizes. - Top of the World (1997) ....Weird Hotel Guest... aka Cold Cash... aka Showdown (w/ Dennis HopperDennis HopperDennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
) - Curse of the ShadowBorg (1997).... Art Fortunes (artist and WMD Creator)
- Big Bad BeetleborgsBig Bad BeetleborgsBig Bad Beetleborgs is an American television series produced by Saban Entertainment. It aired for two seasons on Fox Kids between September 7, 1996 and March 2, 1998. Reruns later aired on UPN Kids during 1998-1999...
(1996) Art Fortunes (series regular)... aka Saban's Big Bad Beetleborgs - Father & Son...(1996) Intense Cell Mate (w/ Louis Gossett, Jr.)
- Crazy Like A Fox...(1995) Jack Rexford (Billionaire) (w/ Jack WardenJack WardenJack Warden was an American character actor.-Early life:Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. He was of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry...
& John Rubenstein) - Perfect Alibi (1995) .... E.R. Doctor... aka Where's Mommy Now? (w/ Hector Elizondo)
- Hostile Intentions (1994) .... Capt. Dalton (Sheriff Helicopter Pilot) (w/Tia Carrere)
- The JudgeThe JudgeJudge was a weekly magazine published in the United States between 1881 and 1947. It was formed in 1881 by artists who had seceded from Puck Magazine. The founders included:*James Albert Wales, a cartoonist*Frank Tousey, publisher of dime novels...
(1989) - Blood Is Thicker (1989) TV Episode (Congressman Redford) - Maid to OrderMaid to OrderMaid to Order is a 1987 comedy/fantasy film starring Ally Sheedy.-Plot:Rich and spoiled twenty something Jessie Montgomery winds up in jail after a life of wild partying...
(1987) .... Westec Guard #1 (w/Ally SheedyAlly SheedyAlexandra Elizabeth "Ally" Sheedy is an American film and stage actress, as well as the author of two books. She is best known for her roles in the Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.-Early life:...
) - Finder of Lost LovesFinder of Lost LovesFinder of Lost Loves is an American drama series aired by the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season.-Synopsis:After Cary Maxwell's wife Kate dies, he decides to set up a private detective agency specializing in reuniting clients with a former loved one...
(1984)...Doctor Epner...White Lies ,TV, (w/Tony Franciosa) - Days of our LivesDays of our LivesDays of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
(1984) Richard, (Aristocratic Butler), TV - Matt HoustonMatt HoustonMatt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.-Synopsis:...
(1984)...Dr. Zahn .... Blood Ties, TV...(w/Lee Horsley & David Wayne]) - The Fall GuyThe Fall GuyThe Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981 to May 2, 1986. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas. Majors and Barr are the only two actors to appear in all 112 episodes of the series...
(1984)...Helicopter Pilot... Bite of the Wasp, TV Episode (w/ Lee Majors) - Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1983) Bachelor Playboy (w/ Kim Basinger,Dorothy Malone])
- Slumber Party MassacreSlumber Party MassacreThe Slumber Party Massacre is a 1982 slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown.-Plot:Trish Devereaux , an 18 year old teen decides to throw a slumber party while her parents are away and their neighbor Mr. Contant is given the job of checking in on the girls during...
(1982) .... Mr. David Contant .(Next Door Neighbor)..(aka Ryan Kennedy) - McMillan & Wife ... News Reporter.......(w/ Rock Hudson)
- Crazed (1982) .... Chuck ... aka Slipping Into Darkness (video title)
- Tunnel VisionTunnel Vision (film)Tunnel Vision is 1976 comedy anthology film featuring Roger Bowen, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Laraine Newman, Betty Thomas, Phil Proctor, Al Franken, Ron Silver, Tom Davis, Michael Overly. It was directed by Neal Israel and Bradley R...
(1976) .... Guard - Jessi's Girls (1975) ... Seth...(Mormon Preacher)...w/Rod Cameron)...aka Wanted Women (UK)
- Girls on the Road (1973) Chip... (Hitch-Hiker)w/Ralph Waite & Michael Ontean aka Hot Summer Week (USA)
- How's Your Love Life? (1971) ....Hipster ....
- RPM* ('69) ... Mark Young (Good Cop, refused to club rioting students) (w/Anthony Quinn ,Ann-Margaret
- Dayton's Devils (1968) ... Sonny Merton (Armed Robber)w/Rory Calhoun,Lanie Kazan,Leslie Nielsen