David Kennedy was a former ICM talent agent, longtime television executive and a producer.

Kennedy graduated from the University of Notre Dame, after which he worked at NBC Sports and at the age of 22 produced the first live broadcast of the America’s Cup yacht race. He is also credited as being in the control room during the first Super Bowl telecast in 1967.

During his career as an agent he spent 12 years as the head of television for New York-based ICM, where he represented Robin Williams, Dick Clark, Eddie Murphy, Lorne Michaels, Debbie Allen and Joe Piscopo, among others. He moved into production in 1984 as senior VP of programming for Pearson Television and its subsidiary Reg Grundy Productions. He also worked as senior VP of programming sales at Taft Entertainment Company and later was the president of Dan Curtis Productions.

As a producer Kennedy was known for the television movies Our Fathers and Saving Milly. The latter was a 2005 CBS telepic that was a true story based on the best-selling book Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease. In 2012 he produced the Tim Burton film Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Helena Bonham Carter.

Kennedy died June 14, 2015, in Los Angeles. He was 73.