Kenneth More
Birthday: Born in 1914-09-20 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Deathday: 1982-07-21
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth More, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
The Forsyte Saga
Character: 'Young Jolyon' Forsyte
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time ...
Father Brown
Character: Father Brown
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries....
An Englishman's Castle
Character: Peter Ingram
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram....
Armchair Theatre
Character: Wilfred Racey
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968....
Omnibus
Character: Self
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the Am...
Movie Credits
A Night to Remember
Character: Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows....
Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Kaiser Wilhelm II
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare....
Reach for the Sky
Character: Douglas Bader
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II....
Battle of Britain
Character: Group Capt. Baker
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain....
The 39 Steps
Character: Richard Hannay
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets....
Dark of the Sun
Character: Doctor Wreid
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything....
Scrooge
Character: Ghost of Christmas Present
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney....
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Character: Prof. Otto Lindenbrock
A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a subterranean civilization that may convey the greatest discovery of all....
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Character: Jonathan Tibbs
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy....
Genevieve
Character: Ambrose Claverhouse
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home....
Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Lt. E.G.R. (Teddy) Evans R.N.
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him...
The Clouded Yellow
Character: Willy Shepley
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true...
The Slipper and the Rose
Character: Chamberlain
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the prince is determined to find and marry her....
The Admirable Crichton
Character: Bill Crichton
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test....
Never Let Me Go
Character: Steve Quillan
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer....
Unidentified Flying Oddball
Character: King Arthur
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans....
Doctor in the House
Character: Richard Grimsdyke
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose....
Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Captain Jonathan Shepard
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying...
We Joined the Navy
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Robert Badger
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away....
Man in the Moon
Character: William Blood
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon....
The Betrayal
Character: Colonel Foreman
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down....
North West Frontier
Character: Capt. Scott
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince....
The Comedy Man
Character: Chick Byrd
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride....
Appointment with Venus
Character: Lionel Fallaize
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis....
Now Barabbas
Character: Spencer
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer....
Leopard in the Snow
Character: Sir Philip James
A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto accident....
Some People
Character: Mr. Smith
Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble....
The Deep Blue Sea
Character: Freddie Page
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)...
The Greengage Summer
Character: Eliot
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France....
Stop Press Girl
Character: Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working....
The Man Who Loved Redheads
Character: Narrator
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love....
Our Girl Friday
Character: Pat Plunkett
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances....
Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Adam
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out....
The Longest Day
Character: Capt. Colin Maud
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"...
The Yellow Balloon
Character: Ted Palmer
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death....
The Franchise Affair
Character: Stanley Peters
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women....
The Galloping Major
Character: Film Director
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper....
Look Up and Laugh
Character: Bit Part
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax....
Brandy for the Parson
Character: Tony Rackman
A young couple get involved with a smuggler...
Morning Departure
Character:
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?...
Raising a Riot
Character: Tony Kent
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood....
A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Dr. Jarvis Lorry
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves....
The Rocking Horse Winner
Character: Uncle
Nigel Rhodes plays a boy who, while riding his wooden rocking horse, can predict which horse will win at the race....
Heart to Heart
Character: David Mann
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister....
School for Secrets
Character: Bomb Aimer (uncredited)
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun....
No Highway in the Sky
Character:
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline....
Man on the Run
Character: Corp. Newman the Blackmailer
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals....
Playing Fields Association: Cricket
Character: Self
Fundraising film for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip was president. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion"....
Power Without Glory
Character: Eddie
Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brother....
The Collector
Character: Miranda’s Older Friend (uncredited)
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days....