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Which actor played Dragline in Cool Hand Luke?
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Paul Newman
Paul Newman, 1956.
The actor who played the character Dragline in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke is George Kennedy. Kennedy won an Academy Award for his supporting performance in this role, in which he portrayed an inmate who is inspired by the defiance of the film's protagonist, Luke Jackson, played by Paul Newman.1