Kevin Short

Kevin Short


in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Kevin Short (sometimes known as Kevin Williams) is an actor, writer, director, producer and musician. He grew up in Greater Manchester, gaining his first professional job, and his Equity card, at the age of fourteen. He played 'Alan Platt' in Granada Television's 'Coronation Street'. This appearance led to training at Jepson College of Dance and Drama in Oldham, Lancashire, and later, to his training in weekly Repertory at The Coliseum Theatre, in Oldham. Kevin combined a highly successful early performing career with an equally successful writing/directing/producing life. Critically acclaimed appearances in London's West End, and at the Royal National Theatre, and on BBC, ITV, and C4 television, alongside a prolific writing and directing career. Producing over 200 shows at the Edinburgh Festival, receiving Best New Play, Best New Venue, several Spirit of the Fringe awards.

Movies for Kevin Short...

Tom and His Zombie Wife
Title: Tom and His Zombie Wife
Character: Tom
Released: September 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Tom vows to love and protect his Zombie Wife 'til death do they part. Zombie Wife needs feeding, and Tom must fulfill her needs. Day after day, he risks his life to bring home the bacon that his Zombie Wife craves. They long for their life back: a family who used to sing and dance together. Family is unity, unity is power, and they were, and are, invincible when they dance.
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A Reel Life
Title: A Reel Life
Character: Self
Released: July 20, 2021
Type: Movie
A screenwriter embarks on a new film script and finds his creation taking on a life of its own. Unable to tell fact from fiction, reality from unreality, he finds his life slowly becoming a film in this dark and surreal comedy drama.
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Punk Strut: The Movie
Title: Punk Strut: The Movie
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
A feature-length tribute to the age and spirit of Punk, which begins as a gentle ramble through the pasture of popular culture and spirals into a story of comic absurdity. 30 years after the release of his cult record 'Punk Strut' Kevin Short has assembled the original musicians to record a new kicking version of the track, and to mark the event, Richard Gibson becomes Rik Shaw once again to present a wild and highly entertaining rockumentary of Kevin Short and His Privates 30th year reunion. In the process, they explore the world of punk today, and meet some of the surviving bands and fans. Mixing documentary, music, and fiction, the film also looks at the reality of punks approaching their sixties.
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Title: Blue Heaven
Character: Marty
Released: June 10, 1992
Type: TV
Frank Sandford has big hopes for his pop duo, Blue Heaven, but his home life is less than satisfactory. His father, Jim, is a local hard man whose favourite son is in prison, while his mother can only be described as the perfect match. Despite the lack of parental support he is determined that he should succeed as a pop star and that his favourite football team, West Bromwich Albion, will win the cup!
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Title: The Paradise Club
Character: Ronnie Blythe (as Kevin Williams)
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Title: Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Character: Ernie (as Kevin Williams)
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.