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Kenneth More

Kenneth More
Kenneth More 1969.jpg
Kenneth More in 1969
Born Kenneth Gilbert More
(1914-09-20)20 September 1914
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Died 12 July 1982(1982-07-12) (aged 67)
London, England, UK
Cause of death Parkinson's disease
Years active 1935–1980
Spouse(s) Beryl Johnstone (1939–46) (divorce) 1 child
Mabel Barkby (1952–68)(divorce) 1 child
Angela Douglas (1968–82) (his death)

Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor.

Raised to stardom by the veteran car based film-comedy Genevieve (1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. His biggest hits from this period include Raising a Riot (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), and The Admirable Crichton (1957). He starred in Doctor in the House (1954), the first of the popular Doctor film series.

Although his career declined in the early 1960s, two of his own favourite films date from this time – The Comedy Man (1964) and The Greengage Summer (1961) with Susannah York, "one of the happiest films on which I have ever worked." He also enjoyed a revival in the much-acclaimed TV adaptation of The Forsyte Saga (1967) and the Father Brown series (1974).

Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Charles Gilbert More, a Royal Naval Air Service pilot, and Edith Winifred Watkins, the daughter of a Cardiff solicitor. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, having spent part of his childhood in the Channel Islands, where his father was general manager of the Jersey Eastern Railway. After he left school, he followed the family tradition by training as a civil engineer. He gave up his training and worked for a while in Sainsbury's.


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