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Kenneth Haigh Biography (1931-)

Born March 25, 1931, in Yorkshire, England; son of William and Margaret (Glyn) Haigh; married Myrna Stephens. Addresses: LONDON--c/o Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, London, W1 England. NEW YORK--c/o Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

Haigh has, in addition to the above, been accorded the honor of being createdan honorary professor to the Yale Drama School.

Nationality

English

Gender

Male

Birth Details

March 25, 1931

Yorkshire, England

Famous Works

• Credits
• STAGE DEBUT--Cassio, Othello, Drogheda, Ireland, 1952.
• LONDON DEBUT--Geoffrey Baines, Dear Little Liz, New Lindsey, 1954.
• NEW YORK DEBUT--Jimmy Porter, Look Back in Anger, Lyceum, 1957.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• Player, Shakesperean Season, Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, London, 1955.
• Peter Lord, The Mulberry Bush, Rev. John Hale, The Crucible, Jimmy Porter, Look Back in Anger, Beaufort, Cards of Identity, all for English Stage Company, Royal Court, London, 1956-57.
• title role, Caligula, 54th Street Theatre, NY, 1960.
• Jerry, The Zoo Story, Arts, London, 1960.
• Franz von Gerlach, Altona, Royal Court, London, then Saville, 1961.
• the friend, Playing with Fire, James, The Collection (a double- bill), Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych, 1962.
• Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Co., Stratford-on- Avon, 1963.
• title role, Caligula, Phoenix, London, 1964.
• Patrick Casey, Maggie May, Adelphi, London, 1964.
• The burglar, Too True to Be Good, Edinburgh Festival, then Strand, London, 1965.
• Prometheus, Prometheus Bound, title role, Enrico IV, both Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1967.
• Governor Endecott, Endecott and the Red Cross, St. Clement's Church, NY,1968.
• Laurie, The Hotel in Amsterdam, Duke of York's, London, 1969.
• Prometheus, Prometheus Bound, Mermaid, London, 1971.
• Rupert Forster, Marching Song, Greenwich, London, 1974.
• title role, The Father, Leicester, London, 1975.
• Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing, 69 Theatre Company, Manchester Cathedral, England, 1976.
• Dysart, Equus, Higgins, Pygmalion, both Citadel, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1977.
• Sidney, California Suite, O'Neill, NY, 1977.
• Henry Jarvis, The Aspern Papers, Prince of Salestria, Look After Lulu, both Chichester Festival, 1978.
• Malvolio, Twelfth Night, Brutus, Julius Caesar, Prospero, The Tempest, American Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, CT, 1979.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Cort, NY, 1980.
• James Sanders, Bodies, Long Wharf, New Haven, CT, 1981.
• title role, Othello, Young Vic, London, 1982.
• Sir, The Dresser, London, 1982.
• Credits; MAJOR TOURS
• Jimmy Porter, Look Back in Anger, U.S. tour, 1958-59.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; DIRECTOR
• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1967.
• FILM DEBUT--Entered films in England in 1955.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
• My Teenage Daughter, 1956.
• Saint Joan, United Artists, 1957.
• High Flight, Columbia, 1958.
• Brutus, Cleopatra, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963.
• A Hard Day's Night, United Artists, 1964.
• The Deadly Affair, Columbia, 1967.
• A Lovely Way to Die, Universal, 1968.
• Eagle in a Cage, National General, 1972.
• The Bitch, 1979.
• Wild Geese II, Allied Artists, 1985.
• Chain Reaction, 1985.
• Credits; TELEVISION APPEARANCES; SERIES
• Man at the Top.
• Search for the Nile.
• McReady, What the Dickens, 1983.
• Credits; SPECIALS
• Achilles, Troilus and Cressida, 1981.
• Moll Flanders.
• Hazlitt in Love.