Kenneth more biography

Kenneth More was one of the dominant male stars of the 1950s, able to play both comic and serious roles and with a greater emotional range than has customarily been acknowledged.

After being demobbed from the Royal Navy, More appeared in supporting roles that included Lieutenant Teddy Evans in Scott of the Antarctic (d.

Charles Frend, 1948). Without the security of a long term studio contract, More alternated between films and the West End stage and one of his strongest performances came in The Deep Blue Sea (d. Anatole Litvak, 1955), adapted from Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, where he repeated his theatrical success as the maladjusted ex-RAF pilot.

The film that launched More as a star was Genevieve (d.

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Henry Cornelius, 1953) where he played the breezy, ebullient Ambrose Claverhouse, unlucky in cars and love. More played a similar role in Doctor in the House (d. Ralph Thomas, 1954), another modern variation on the prewar man-about-town, debonair, self-deprecating Susannah York CUHIR