James Kenney

James Kenney

Born: July 20, 1930
Died: January 13, 1987
in Wandsworth, London, England, UK
James Kenney was an English actor whose boyish charm found him regular film and stage roles throughout the 1950's

Named after his father, music hall comedian Horace Kenney, he chose to use his middle name James to avoid any confusion.

By the late 1960's acting work had almost dried up and James Kenney committed suicide on 13th January 1987.

Movies for James Kenney...

Ambush in Leopard Street
Title: Ambush in Leopard Street
Character: Johnny
Released: June 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise
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Hidden Homicide
Title: Hidden Homicide
Character: Oswald Castellan
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
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Son of a Stranger
Title: Son of a Stranger
Character: Tom Adams
Released: March 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
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Seven Thunders
Title: Seven Thunders
Character: Eric Triebel
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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The Gelignite Gang
Title: The Gelignite Gang
Character: Chris Chapman
Released: June 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.
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Doctor at Sea
Title: Doctor at Sea
Character: Fellowes
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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Above Us the Waves
Title: Above Us the Waves
Character: Abercrombie
Released: March 29, 1955
Type: Movie
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.
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The Love Match
Title: The Love Match
Character: Percy Brown
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Title: The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: Cpl. Skinner
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
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The Good Die Young
Title: The Good Die Young
Character: Dave, Angela's Brother
Released: March 2, 1954
Type: Movie
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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Cosh Boy
Title: Cosh Boy
Character: Roy Walsh
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
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The Gentle Gunman
Title: The Gentle Gunman
Character: Johnny Fagan
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Kenneth Friese-Greene
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Outcast of the Islands
Title: Outcast of the Islands
Character: Ramsey
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Title: Captain Horatio Hornblower
Character: Midshipman Longley
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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The Guinea Pig
Title: The Guinea Pig
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
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Vice Versa
Title: Vice Versa
Character: Coggs
Released: January 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.