Kenneth Haigh
Biography
Kenneth Haigh was an English actor who came to prominence in 1956 as Jimmy Porter in the premiere of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court. Born in Mexborough, he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His stage performance was critically acclaimed as a prototype of the working-class anti-hero in postwar English drama. He played the same part on Broadway in 1958, then was passed over for the 1959 film version. He later took historical roles, including Brutus in Cleopatra (1963) and Napoleon in Eagle in a Cage, and made an uncredited appearance in A Hard Day's Night (1964). On television he portrayed Richard Francis Burton in The Search for the Nile and Joe Lampton in Man at the Top from 1970 to 1972 and its 1973 spin-off film. He also released an LP, How to Handle a Woman, in 1973. He died in 2018.
86years old at death
- Born Mexborough
- Died London
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Also credited as Kenneth William Michael Haigh
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 28 years1957 to 1985
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Beyond film
Haigh's 1958 Broadway performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger moved one young woman so much that she climbed onto the stage and slapped him during the show.
Kenneth Haigh movies on Netflix
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Worked with
Kenneth Haigh shares two films with Harry Andrews, 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.
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Roddy McDowall's page
All films by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All films by Richard Lester
All films by Sidney Lumet
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