Ken Bones
Biography
Ken Bones is an English actor who belongs to the Royal Shakespeare Company. Born in Dartford in 1947, he trained at RADA from 1971 to 1973, and in 1974 he played Roy in The Odd Couple in Crewe. He has performed in 21 Royal Shakespeare Company plays, among them Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear. On screen, he played Gort in Bellman and True (1987), Toussant in Cutthroat Island (1995), Admiral Bill Wilson in Wing Commander (1999), Hippasus in Troy (2004) and an Egyptian scribe in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). His television work includes Banquo in a 2001 film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Macbeth, Lord Halifax in Upstairs Downstairs, and The General in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special in 2013, a part he reprised in Hell Bent in 2015.
79years old
Turns 80 on June 11in 212 days
- Born Dartford
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 27 years1987 to 2014
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Early training
Ken Bones trained at RADA from 1971 to 1973, winning the Honours Diploma along with the Ronson Prize, the Kendal Award, the Poel Prize and the John Barton Prize.
First role
Bones made his feature film debut in Bellman and True (1987), directed by Richard Loncraine, and a New York Times critic called his turn as the bullying Gort memorable.
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Best known for
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Worked with
Ken Bones shares two films with Saffron Burrows, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Wolfgang PetersenDirector, 1 film, 2004
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