Kenneth More

Kenneth More

Born: September 20, 1914
Died: July 21, 1982
in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
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Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.

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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Dr. Jarvis Lorry
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
Title: Unidentified Flying Oddball
Character: King Arthur
Released: July 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.
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Leopard in the Snow
Title: Leopard in the Snow
Character: Sir Philip James
Released: April 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto accident.
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Title: An Englishman's Castle
Character: Peter Ingram
Released: June 5, 1978
Type: TV
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Title: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Character: Prof. Otto Lindenbrock
Released: August 15, 1977
Type: Movie
A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a subterranean civilization that may convey the greatest discovery of all.
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The Rocking Horse Winner
Title: The Rocking Horse Winner
Character: Uncle
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Nigel Rhodes plays a boy who, while riding his wooden rocking horse, can predict which horse will win at the race.
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The Slipper and the Rose
Title: The Slipper and the Rose
Character: Chamberlain
Released: March 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the prince is determined to find and marry her.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Father Brown
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: TV
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Ghost of Christmas Present
Released: November 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
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Battle of Britain
Title: Battle of Britain
Character: Group Capt. Baker
Released: September 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Title: Oh! What a Lovely War
Character: Kaiser Wilhelm II
Released: March 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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The Betrayal
Title: The Betrayal
Character: Colonel Foreman
Released: January 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
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Dark of the Sun
Title: Dark of the Sun
Character: Doctor Wreid
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Title: The Forsyte Saga
Character: 'Young Jolyon' Forsyte
Released: January 7, 1967
Type: TV
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.
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The Collector
Title: The Collector
Character: Amigo de Miranda
Released: June 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.
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The Comedy Man
Title: The Comedy Man
Character: Chick Byrd
Released: September 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
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Title: First Night
Character: Major Colum Fitzgerald
Released: September 22, 1963
Type: TV
A series of contemporary television dramas by new writers.
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We Joined the Navy
Title: We Joined the Navy
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Robert Badger
Released: May 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: David Mann
Released: December 6, 1962
Type: Movie
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Capt. Colin Maud
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Some People
Title: Some People
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: May 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
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The Greengage Summer
Title: The Greengage Summer
Character: Eliot
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
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Man in the Moon
Title: Man in the Moon
Character: William Blood
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: Movie
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Captain Jonathan Shepard
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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North West Frontier
Title: North West Frontier
Character: Capt. Scott
Released: October 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Richard Hannay
Released: March 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Title: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Character: Jonathan Tibbs
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
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Next to No Time
Title: Next to No Time
Character: David Webb
Released: August 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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The Admirable Crichton
Title: The Admirable Crichton
Character: Bill Crichton
Released: June 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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Reach for the Sky
Title: Reach for the Sky
Character: Douglas Bader
Released: July 5, 1956
Type: Movie
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
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The Deep Blue Sea
Title: The Deep Blue Sea
Character: Freddie Page
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
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Playing Fields Association: Cricket
Title: Playing Fields Association: Cricket
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Fundraising film for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip was president. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".
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Raising a Riot
Title: Raising a Riot
Character: Tony Kent
Released: February 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
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The Man Who Loved Redheads
Title: The Man Who Loved Redheads
Character: Narrator
Released: February 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
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Doctor in the House
Title: Doctor in the House
Character: Richard Grimsdyke
Released: March 23, 1954
Type: Movie
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
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Our Girl Friday
Title: Our Girl Friday
Character: Pat Plunkett
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances.
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Genevieve
Title: Genevieve
Character: Ambrose Claverhouse
Released: May 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
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Never Let Me Go
Title: Never Let Me Go
Character: Steve Quillan
Released: March 18, 1953
Type: Movie
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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The Yellow Balloon
Title: The Yellow Balloon
Character: Ted Palmer
Released: February 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
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Brandy for the Parson
Title: Brandy for the Parson
Character: Tony Rackman
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
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Appointment with Venus
Title: Appointment with Venus
Character: Lionel Fallaize
Released: October 8, 1951
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
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No Highway
Title: No Highway
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Film Director
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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The Franchise Affair
Title: The Franchise Affair
Character: Stanley Peters
Released: February 19, 1951
Type: Movie
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Willy Shepley
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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Chance of a Lifetime
Title: Chance of a Lifetime
Character: Adam
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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Morning Departure
Title: Morning Departure
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
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Stop Press Girl
Title: Stop Press Girl
Character: Police Sgt. 'Bonzo'
Released: June 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
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Now Barabbas
Title: Now Barabbas
Character: Spencer
Released: May 24, 1949
Type: Movie
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Corp. Newman the Blackmailer
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
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Scott of the Antarctic
Title: Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Lt. E.G.R. (Teddy) Evans R.N.
Released: November 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
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Power Without Glory
Title: Power Without Glory
Character: Eddie
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Eddie Lord returns home from war to find that his fiancee has fallen in love with his younger brother.
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Toad of Toad Hall
Title: Toad of Toad Hall
Character: Badger
Released: December 29, 1946
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows.
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School for Secrets
Title: School for Secrets
Character: Bomb Aimer (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Bit Part
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.