Jay Richard Kennedy

Jay Richard Kennedy was born on Jul 23, 1904 in USA. Jay Richard Kennedy's big-screen debut came with To the Ends of the Earth directed by Robert Stevenson in 1948. Jay Richard Kennedy is known for I'll Cry Tomorrow directed by Daniel Mann, Susan Hayward stars as Lillian Roth and Richard Conte as Tony Bardeman. The upcoming new movie Jay Richard Kennedy plays is The Chairman which will be released on Jul 01, 1969.

Author, composer, publisher and record executive. He was president of an aircraft tool manufacturing firm during World War II. For network radio, he wrote scripts for "The Man Called X" and several novels (see "Other Works" link). Also, he was president of the Shari Music publishing firm, and was manager, partner, director/producer and writer for Harry Belafonte. In 1956, he received the National Brotherhood award from the Catholic Interracial Council, and became vice-president of Sinatra Enterprises, where he headed the record and music-publishing divisions from 1966. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his chief musical collaborators were Harry Belafonte and Irving Burgie, and his popular-song compositions include "Shining Bright", "Blues Is Man", and "Eden Was Like This".