Kenneth More

Actor

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Also Known As

Kenneth Gilbert More

Birth Place

Gerrard's Cross, England, GB

Born

September 20, 1914

Died

July 12, 1982

Biography

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An affable British leading man of stage and screen, More made his film debut in 1935 and established himself as a popular star in the 1950s in both light comedies ("Doctor in the House" 1954) and jingoistic wartime melodramas ("Reach for the Sky" 1956). His best performance of the period was the recreation of his stage role in "The Deep Blue Sea" (1955). In the late 1960s, he earned prai...

Filmography

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TALE OF TWO CITIES, A (1980)

The Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)

Viaje al centro de la tierra (1977)

Professor Lindenbrock

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1977)

Professor Lindenbrook

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

Ghost of Christmas Present

Photos & Videos

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Night To Remember, A (1958) -- (Movie Clip) It's All Titanic, This

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees

Family & Companions

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Beryl Johnstone

Wife

Actor. Divorced.

Angela Douglas

Wife

Actor, writer. Divorced.

Bibliography

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"More or Less"

Kenneth More (1978)

Biography

An affable British leading man of stage and screen, More made his film debut in 1935 and established himself as a popular star in the 1950s in both light comedies ("Doctor in the House" 1954) and jingoistic wartime melodramas ("Reach for the Sky" 1956). His best performance of the period was the recreation of his stage role in "The Deep Blue Sea" (1955). In the late 1960s, he earned praise for his work as Old Jolyon in the BBC miniseries "The Forsyte Saga" (shown on PBS in the USA).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

TALE OF TWO CITIES, A (1980)

The Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)

Viaje al centro de la tierra (1977)

Professor Lindenbrock

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1977)

Professor Lindenbrook

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

Ghost of Christmas Present

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Battle of Britain (1969)

Group Captain Baker

Fraulein Doktor (1969)

Colonel Foreman

Dark of the Sun (1968)

Some People (1964)

The Longest Day (1962)

We Joined the Navy (1962)

Man in the Moon (1961)

Loss of Innocence (1961)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Captain [Jonathan] Shepard

Flame Over India (1960)

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1959)

The 39 Steps (1959)

Paradise Lagoon (1958)

[William] Crichton

A Night to Remember (1958)

Reach for the Sky (1956)

The Deep Blue Sea (1955)

The Adventures of Sadie (1955)

Doctor in the House (1955)

Raising a Riot (1955)

Genevieve (1954)

Never Let Me Go (1953)

The Yellow Balloon (1953)

No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Dobson, co-pilot

The Clouded Yellow (1950)

Chance of a Lifetime (1950)

Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

Lieutenant Teddy Evans

Cast (Special)

Father Brown (1982)

Father John Brown

Life Events

Videos

Night To Remember, A (1958) -- (Movie Clip) It's All Titanic, This Preliminaries, the ship having been christened before the credits, Kenneth More as Lightoller, the real Second Officer on RMS Titanic, Jane Downs his wife, Patrick Waddington and Harriette Johns an upper-class couple en route to the ship, in director Roy Baker’s A Night To Remember,1958.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) White Sands And Palm Trees In the South Seas, separated from their yacht, butler Crichton (Kenneth More) with maid Tweeny (Diane Cilento), employer Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell) and suitors (Jack Watling, Gerald Harper), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) You're Doing Splendidly Sally Ann Howes as Lady Mary is gaining some nerve, though she’s the last holdout of the shipwrecked Loam family in recognizing that their butler Crichton (Kenneth More) is best equipped to lead their party, and her attempted swim brings her around, in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, better known as The Admirable Crichton, from the J.M. Barrie play.

Never Let Me Go (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Seeing Molotov On Monday Thwarted thus far seeking permission to marry, American newsman Sutherland (Clark Gable) visits the ambassador in Moscow (Robert Henderson) and introduces the eager Marya (Gene Tierney), in Delmer Daves' Never Let Me Go, 1953.

Slipper And The Rose, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Why Can't I Be Two People? From Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman of Mary Poppins fame, the first song in their 1976 original version of Cinderella, Richard Chamberlain as the prince attended by friend Christopher Gable and Kenneth More as the Lord High Chamberlain, in The Slipper And The Rose, 1976.

Loss Of Innocence (1961) -- (Movie Clip) We Are Not Orphans! Arriving at French lodgings, their Mum taken ill, the Greys (Jane Asher, Elizabeth Dear, Richard Williams, led by Susannah York as "Joss") meet the manager, the help, the owner and boyfriend (Claude Noiller, David Saire, Danielle Darrieux, Kenneth More), early in Loss Of Innocence, 1961.

Loss Of Innocence (1961) -- (Movie Clip) The French Sleep Late The Grey children, first morning at their champagne-country hotel, without their stricken mother, Joss (Susannah York) wakened by Willmouse and Hester (Richard Williams, Jane Asher), who then meet Eliot (Kenneth More), English beau of the proprietress, early in Loss Of Innocence, 1961.

Loss Of Innocence (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Blood Makes Good Business The hotel owner (Danielle Darrieux) diverted by tourists, Paul (David Saire) and the temporarily un-parented Grey kids (Jane Asher, Richard Williams, Elizabeth Dear) chattering when Eliot (Kenneth More), her boyfriend, is entranced by eldest sister Joss (Susannah York), coming downstairs for the first time, in Loss Of Innocence, 1961.

Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) That Was The French After an extended domestic pantomime for the credits, Crichton (Kenneth More) awakens Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), who has a surprise for his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, from J.M. Barrie's better-known play The Admirable Crichton, 1958.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Give Us A Show 1931, Reading, England, RAF pilots Bader (Kenneth More) and Sanderson (Lyndon Brook) are goaded by civilian fliers (Jack Taylor, Jeremy Longhurst) to disobey orders, Alexander Knox the surgeon in the ensuing scene, in director Lewis Gilbert's bio-pic Reach For The Sky, 1956.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Helpless Cripple RAF pilot Douglas Bader (Kenneth More), hospitalized after a reckless crash and having lost the use of both legs, sneaks from his bed, found by nurse Brace (Dorothy Alison), who hears his griping then lays down some law, in the 1956 bio-pic Reach For The Sky.

Reach For The Sky (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Living Meant Flying End of the credits and the opening, introducing Kenneth More, playing the lead in the life story of RAF pilot Douglas Bader, narration by Lyndon Brook as colleague Sanderson, in director Lewis Gilbert's Reach For The Sky, 1956, from the book by Paul Brickhill.

No Highway in the Sky - (Original Trailer) An engineer (James Stewart) fights to prove that a new airplane is not safe in No Highway in the Sky (1951) co-starring Marlene Dietrich.

Admirable Crichton, The - (U.S. trailer) When a family is shipwrecked on a desert island, their butler comes to the rescue in The Admirable Crichton (1957) here under its U.S. title.

Longest Day, The - (Original Trailer) An all-star cast including John Wayne and Henry Fonda in a re-creation of the D-Day invasion on The Longest Day (1962).

Battle Of Britain - (Original Trailer) Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Olivier head an all-star cast in the story of the Battle Of Britain (1969).

Dark Of The Sun - (Original Trailer) Rod Taylor and Jim Brown fight to get refugees and a fortune in diamonds out of the Congo under the Dark Of The Sun (1968).

Companions

Beryl Johnstone

Wife

Actor. Divorced.

Angela Douglas

Wife

Actor, writer. Divorced.

Bibliography

"More or Less"

Kenneth More (1978)

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