Kenneth Haigh

Kenneth Haigh was born on Mar 25, 1931 in UK. Kenneth Haigh's big-screen debut came with Teenage Bad Girl directed by Herbert Wilcox in 1956, strarring Tony Ward Black. Kenneth Haigh is known for Lady Killers directed by Nicholas Ferguson, Robert Morley stars as Self - Presenter and Andrew Johns as Dr. Bernard Spilsbury. The upcoming new movie Kenneth Haigh plays is Shuttlecock which will be released on Nov 04, 2020.

Kenneth Haigh was an English actor who broke new ground with his original interpretation of Jimmy Porter, in John Osborne's 1956 play "Look Back in Anger". The play was to fundamentally change English theatre and coined the phrase used to describe Osborne (and later other contemporary playwrights) by the British Press as an "Angry Young Man". The following year, Haigh took the performance to Broadway, but the already established film credentials of Richard Burton saw the lead role change hands for the 1957 film adaptation. The role of Jimmy Porter came relatively early in Haigh's career and some commentators have argued that what followed in the next 50 years was something of an anti-climax for him. Apart from Porter, one of his best known roles was that of Joe Lampton in the TV series Man at the Top (1970), and the subsequent spin-off film Man at the Top (1973). Sadly, tragedy struck Haigh in 2003 when he swallowed a bone whilst eating in a restaurant in London's Soho. Deprived of oxygen his brain function was damaged and he was confined to a nursing home up until his death in 2018.