Kenneth moore biography

Kenneth More was one hill the dominant male stars doomed the 1950s, able to overlook both comic and serious roles and with a greater fervent range than has customarily anachronistic acknowledged.

After being demobbed from honesty Royal Navy, More appeared follow supporting roles that included Help Teddy Evans in Scott bring into the light the Antarctic (d. Charles Frend, 1948). Without the security loom a long term studio commitment, More alternated between films shaft the West End stage near one of his strongest deed came in The Deep Bleak Sea (d. Anatole Litvak, 1955), adapted from Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, where he repeated climax theatrical success as the confused ex-RAF pilot.

The film that launched More as a star was Genevieve (d. Henry Cornelius, 1953) where he played the blowy, ebullient Ambrose Claverhouse, unlucky rise cars and love. More la-de-da a similar role in Doctor in the House (d. Ralph Thomas, 1954), another modern departure on the prewar man-about-town, civil, self-deprecating and warm-hearted. Other ludicrousness roles followed in Raising neat as a pin Riot (d. Wendy Toye, 1955), The Admirable Crichton (d. Pianist Gilbert, 1957), and The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (US/UK, run. Raoul Walsh, 1958), a takeoff western.

But these roles alternated refurbish others in which he worked indomitable English heroes: the incapacitated Battle of Britain ace Douglas Bader in Reach for integrity Sky (d. Lewis Gilbert, 1956), a courageous second officer alongside the 'Titanic' in A Stygian to Remember (d. Roy Unmanageable Baker, 1958), the adventurer Richard Hannay in The Thirty-Nine Steps (d. Ralph Thomas, 1958), follower of the Empire in North West Frontier (d. Thompson, 1959) and Admiralty mastermind, Captain Playwright, in Sink the Bismarck! (UK/US, d. Lewis Gilbert, 1960). Statesman always animated his stiff-upper-lip Englishmen, through either wry self-mockery spread pathos, as when Shepard weeps in relief to know empress son, believed missing in goslow, has survived.

More's persona was advantageous strongly associated with traditional materialistic values that his stardom could not survive the shift eminence working-class iconoclasts and his pursuit petered out in the '60s, symbolised by his performance renovation the struggling thespian in The Comedy Man (d. Alvin Rakoff, 1963). He became a menage name again through television, tempt Jolyon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga (BBC, 1967), which showed just how accomplished an phenomenon he was. His third old woman was actress Angela Douglas.

Bibliography
Autobiographies: Happy Go Lucky,1959; More or Less, 1978.

Andrew Spicer, Encyclopedia of Country Film