Kenneth Givens is known for Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021).
Kenny is an award winning television and film director. Recent work includes the feature film Dirt Road to Lafayette by James Kelman and 6 x 1 hr thriller Acceptable Risk by Ron Hutchinson for Saffron Pictures/RTE/Canada. Previous work includes: the BAFTA and RTS winning The Cops and Buried for Tony Garnett; Gas Attack, written by Rowan Joffe for Channel 4, which won the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize at the Courchevel Film Festival and the Best Actor Award, shared by the three lead actresses at the Cherbourg Film Festival; Summer, for Sixteen Films which won BAFTAs for best direction, best film and best actor award for Robert Carlyle at the EIFF and best film in the Alice in the Cities section of the Rome International Film Festival; Yasmin, written by Simon Beaufoy, which won the Audience Award at Dinard and the Ecumenical Award at Locarno, and several best actor awards. Other work includes: the first two parts of Charlie, a 3 x 90 political drama for RTE, which was nominated for Best Drama at the Irish Film and Television Awards; The Ark, a single TV film for Red Planet/BBC1; Paddington, a TV film for BBC 1 about the Paddington rail crash; Magnificent 7 for BBC1, a single TV film about a family on the autism spectrum, which won the Signis Prix - Festival de Television Monte Carlo; Case Histories, Spooks, Paranoid and Being Human. Kenny also directed the short documentary, The Right to Life, which was part of a portmanteau feature entitled The Ten Commandments, inspired by the UN declaration of human rights. Theatre directing includes: A Place with the Pigs by Athol Fugard, which won a fringe first, and Joe Orton's Loot, and several new plays.
Kenneth Goh is known for Singapore Vignettes (2021).
Kenneth Grant Ainslie is an actor, known for Connect (2019).
Kenneth went to a grammar school in South Wales where the English literary teacher had the class read out parts in plays, which was the one thing he enjoyed; as a result, he was put in a play about Richard II. A local critic wrote, 'If this boy chooses to make the stage a career he should do well,' which gave Kenneth the idea of acting despite never having seen an actor or a theatre up to then. He left school at 15 with no idea of what to do apart from joining the army which would provide him with a uniform and food and possibly send him to India. Instead he went to Cambridge at 15½ to work in an ironmongers. He went to the stage door of the Cambridge Theatre with some of his notices and asked for the producer, who gave him a job at £3 a week. Despite having had no formal theatre training he made 70+ films, as well as researching and directing two of his own documentaries.
Kenneth Gyang has gained international recognition as one of a younger generation of savvy Nigerian filmmakers. His works have appeared at the New York African Film Festival, the Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival, and the Berlinale Talent Campus. He received backing from the prestigious Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam to produce the postmodernist dark comedy Confusion Na Wa, which went on to win Best Film at the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards and Jury Prize at the Pan African Film Festival in LA. The Lost Cafe (2017), his second feature won the Golden Palm Award for Narrative Feature at the 2018 Mexico International Film Festival as well as the Audience Prize at Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) in Nigeria. Oloture (2020), his third feature premiered at the famous Carthage Film Festival. Released worldwide on Netflix, Oloture swiftly became one of the most successful crossover Nigerian titles on the service, creating a buzz and conversation amongst audiences in Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, to name a few. Kenneth is a 2018 American Film Showcase Fellow at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, a graduate of the prestigious EAVE European Producers Workshop and co-founder of the film production company Cinema Kpatakpata.
Kenneth Hadley is an actor, known for High-Rise (2015), Topsy-Turvy (1999) and Sightseers (2012).
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.
Kenneth Hall is an actor, known for The Taint (2011).