Sam Kydd
Sam Kydd was born on Feb 15, 1915 in UK. Sam Kydd's big-screen debut came with The Captive Heart directed by Basil Dearden in 1946, strarring POW in Top Bunk (uncredited). Sam Kydd is known for Eye of the Needle directed by Richard Marquand, Donald Sutherland stars as Faber and Stephen MacKenna as Lieutenant. The upcoming new movie Sam Kydd plays is Home and Away which will be released on Sep 22, 1990.
Sam was a very well known, un-sung, British Actor from 1946 to his death in 1982. He was originally born in Northern Ireland but came over to London England as a boy with his mother and her brothers, setting up home in Bayswater, then Shepherd's Bush, then Chiswick. He was sent to Dunstable school. Before the Second World war he worked at Alvis Cars and Whiteley's Department Store in the bedding department but also entered Talent Contests as a stand up and impressionist. He got a job with the Oscar Rabin Band at the Hammersmith Palais as part of his 'Hot Shots' introducing the band's numbers, and telling a few gags and tap dancing in a few numbers. In 1939 at the start of the war, he was called up as he'd been very briefly in the Territorial Army. According to his autobiography, "Quick Mum He's on Now" he made over 240 films, many of the titles as yet unloaded to IMDb. The autobiography, recently discovered by his son Jonathan (also on IMDb) in his mother's loft after her death, was never published during his lifetime, but is a witty informative follow up to his successful "For You the War is Over" written about his incarceration in a German prison camp from 1939 to 45 , and selling over 40,000 in paperback. He similarly made thousands of TV appearances once more uncredited. Jonathan intends to publish the book next year.
Birthday
Feb 15, 1915Place of Birth
Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK
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