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Kenneth Fortescue was an English actor.
Kenneth Fortescue was born , in Kew, London, England, United Kingdom.
He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-four (54) in England, United Kingdom.
As an actor, Kenneth Fortescue has been seen in movies such as
"The Brides of Fu Manchu", released in 1966 portraying Sergeant Spicer,
"Don't Bother to Knock" (1961) playing Ian,
"The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1957) in which he portrays Octavius,
"The Magic Christian" (1969), "The Mirror Crack'd" (1980),
and "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" (1978).




Actors Kenneth Fortesque (left) and Joss Ackland (right) in a sc :ene from a television dramatisation of a Rudyard Kipling story, 1964.




JOHN THAW - LAURENCE OLIVIER - JAMES BOLAM

12 page 5"x 7" Theatre Programme for "Semi-Detached" at the New Theatre Oxford.
Opened 24th November 1962.
The members of the Cast were Laurence Olivier, James Bolam, Mona Washbourne,
Eileen Atkins, John Thaw, Patsy Rowlands, Kenneth Fortescue, Joan Young and Newton Blick.

PLAYS PLAYERS 9/74 DEREK JACOBI JOHN GIELGUD

Plays and Players was a monthly British theatre magazine published by Hansom Books. Each magazine has a cover photograph of a new production and includes reviews and photographs of all the previous month's major productions plus background articles and a complete playscript.
We thought we had sold all of my husband's substantial collection of Plays and Players from 1967-1980 with auctions ending last month, but I had wondered why we were missing many issues. Well, he cleaned out a cupboard in our home and found them--most from 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1978, with a few from 1970 and 1980. (Note: all issues left to list date from the early 1970s)
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Reviews :
The Sack Race(2 pgs, 4 production photos) with Michael Denison, Anthony Nicholls, Kenneth Fortescue, and Deborah Watling

GEOFFREY BAYLDON*SIOBHAN McKENNA*ALEC McCOWEN

16 page 8.5" X 5.5" Theatre programme of * THE CAVERN * by JEAN ANOUILH directed by DONALD McWHINNIE at the Strand Theatre London opened 11th November 1965 date on front 11 Dec 1965 starring GEOFFREY BAYLDON... SIOBHAN McKENNA... ALEC McCOWEN... GRIFFITHS JONES... SALLY HOME... KENNETH FORTESCUE... KATE COLERIDGE... RICHARD HAMPTON... KEITH PYOTT... BARRY LINEHAM... TERENCE LODGE... ANNA MIDDLETON... GEMMA JONES... CHRISTOPHER WITTY... JOAN MACARTHUR... WILLIAM BURLEIGH & JOHN GUGOLKA .... biography of Siobhan, Alec and Griffith....

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Desert Mice (1959)
Rotten ENSA troupe get into trouble in the WWII desert campaign. A farce that was probably more fun for those who were there at the time than the rest of us. The jokes are mostly predictable and, despite the great cast, fall flat.
Script: David Climie
Director: Michael Relph
Players: Sidney James, Alfred Marks, Patricia Bredin, Kenneth Fortesque, Dick Bentley, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, Reginald Beckwith, Joan Benham, Liz Fraser, Nigel Davenport, John Le Mesurier, Anthony Bushell
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Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole 2 VHS Mint

The Review : This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. A bored general staffer, Lawrence talks his way into a transfer to Arabia. Once in the desert, he befriends Sherif Ali Ben El Kharish (Omar Sharif, making one of the most spectacular entrances in movie history) and draws up plans to aid the Arabs in their rebellion against the Turks. No one is ever able to discern Lawrence's motives in this matter: Sherif dismisses him as yet another "desert-loving Englishman," and his British superiors assume that he's either arrogant or mad. Using a combination of diplomacy and bribery, Lawrence unites the rival Arab factions of Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness) and Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn). After successfully completing his mission, Lawrence becomes an unwitting pawn of the Allies, as represented by Gen. Allenby (Jack Hawkins) and Dryden (Claude Rains), who decide to keep using Lawrence to secure Arab cooperation against the Imperial Powers. While on a spying mission to Deraa, Lawrence is captured and tortured by a sadistic Turkish Bey (Jose Ferrer), and the movie implies that the Bey's brutal treatment of him has aroused Lawrence's own repressed homosexuality: true or not, it is clear that he has undergone a radical personality change when he makes it back to his own lines. In the heat of the next battle, a wild-eyed Lawrence screams "No prisoners!" and fights more ruthlessly than ever. Screenwriter Robert Bolt used T. E. Lawrence's own self-published memoir The Seven Pillars of Wisdom as his principal source, although some of the characters are composites, and many of the "historical" incidents are of unconfirmed origin. Two years in the making (you can see O'Toole's weight fluctuate from scene to scene), the movie, lensed in Spain and Jordan, ended up costing a then-staggering $13 million and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The 1962 Royal Premiere in London was virtually the last time that David Lean's director's cut was seen: 20 minutes was edited from the film's general release, and 15 more from the 1971 reissue. This abbreviated version was all that was available for public exhibition until a massive 1989 restoration, at 221 minutes, that returned several of Lean's favorite scenes while removing others with which he had never been satisfied ///
The Stellar Cast :
Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole - T.E. Lawrence Alec Guinness - Prince Feisal Anthony Quinn - Auda abu Tayi Jack Hawkins - Gen.Allenby Omar Sharif - Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish Anthony Quayle - Col. Harry Brighton José Ferrer - Turkish Bey Donald Wolfit - Gen. Murray I.S. Johar - Gasim Gamil Ratib - Majid Michael Ray - Farraj John Dimech - Daud Hugh Miller - RAMC Colonel Howard Marion-Crawford - Medical Officer Jack Gwyllim - Club Secretary Stuart Saunders - Regimental Sergeant Major Arthur Kennedy - Jackson Bentley Fernando Sancho - Turkish Sergeant John Ruddock - Elder Harith Jack Hedley - Reporter Kenneth Fortescue - Allenby's Aide Henry Oscar - Reciter Norman Rossington - Corporal Jenkins Claude Rains - Mr. Dryden Zia Mohyeddin - Tafas Harry Fowler - Cpl. Potter

Desert Mice 1959 BWS Alfred Marks

Description: This original UK black and white still (8" x 10") is from the 1959 movie.
Cast: Alfred Marks, Sid James, Dora Bryan, Dick Bentley, Reginald Beckwith, Irene Handl, Kenneth Fortescue, Patricia Bredin;
Directed by: Michael Relph



THE BEST OF ENEMIES
(1961) Colour (RCA/Columbia) approx 100 mins (**PAL format)

Cast: David Niven, Michael Wilding, Harry Andrews, Noel Harrison, Ronald Fraser, Alberto Sordi, Bernard Cribbins, Duncan Macrae, Robert Desmond, Kenneth Fortescue, Michael Trubshawe and David Opatoshu.
In this military comedy, directed by the legendary Guy Hamilton who helmed some of the finest James Bond pictures, Maj. Richardson (Niven) and Lt. Burke (Wilding) are two British soldiers on a recognizance mission over Ethiopia in 1941 when their plane crashes in the desert. Capt. Blasi (Sordi), an Italian officer, finds the Englishmen and offers to help them: he'll let them go if they allow him and his men to take over an old fort nearby and stay there without being bothered. Richardson and Burke agree, and they return to their base of operations, only to discover that they've been ordered to attack the fort and capture Blasi and his men. Richardson considers himself a man of his word and doesn't care for this duty; in time, the two men become friends and exchange banter as they take turns capturing one another. Remarkably enough, Italian actor Sordi didn't speak English when he made this film, and he learned all his dialogue phonetically.

Ray Milland, Anthony Newley HIGH FLIGHT 1956

Terrific lobby card from air force film High Flight (1956). Directed by John Gilling. Starring (in alphabetical order) Grace Arnold, Frank Atkinson, Anne Aubrey, Richard Bennett, Jan Brooks, Alfred Burke, Helen Cherry, Charles Clay, Peter Dixon, John Downing, Ian Fleming, Kenneth Fortescue, Barry Foster, Douglas Gibbon, Kenneth Haigh, Jan Holden, Owen Holder, Noel Hood, Bernard Horsfall, Glyn Houston, Andrew Keir, Sean Kelly, Duncan Lamont, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, William Lucas, Ray Milland, Nancy Nevinson, Anthony Newley, Hal Osmond, Alan Penn, Leslie Phillips, Kynaston Reeves, Bill Shine, Richard Wattis, Leslie Weston. 12.5"x16.5"

Ringo Starr in Magic Christian VHS !!

Magic Christian / VHS / Not Rated / 101 min / Color
Stars Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Roman Polanski, Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch, Yul Brynner, and John Cleese. Great British comedy from the late 60's about how people will do anything for money. A MUST for any Beatle fan. "Magic Christian" / Director: JOSEPH MCGRATH / Republic Pictures Home Video / Release Date: 1969

Shot in Technicolor, and filmed at Twickenham Studios, Middlesex, England. Some prints of the film are only 88 minutes long, while original theatrical releases ran approximately 95 minutes. The video and laserdisc versions of "The Magic Christian," however, appear to be 101 minutes. Additional cast: Tom Boyle (My Man Jeff); Peter Bayliss (Pompous Toff), Clive Dunn (Sommelier), Freddie Earle (Sol), Kenneth Fortescue (Irate Snob), David Hutcheson (Lord Barry), Jeremy Lloyd (Lord Hampton), Peter Myers (Lord Kilgallon), Robert Raglan (Maltravers), and Leon Thau (Engine Room Toff). Appearing as themselves: TV commentators Michael Aspel, Michael Barratt, Harry Carpenter, W. Barrington Dalby, John Snagge, and Alan Whicker. There is a parody of Shakespeare's tragic play "Hamlet" within the film, with Laurence Harvey as the melancholy Dane doing a striptease during the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. Director McGrath also incorporated some b&w and color archival footage of riots and Vietnam into the film. Released theatrically in the USA February 12, 1970. Copyright 1969 Grand Films, Ltd.

In this adaptation of Terry Southern's offbeat novel, an eccentric millionaire adopts a down-and-out vagrant he stumbles upon in the park as his son. The pair embark on a series of practical jokes and elaborate stunts designed to expose the wanton greed that exists in everybody -- and prove that everyone has his price.

MAGIC CHRISTIAN - LASERDISC RARE
PETER SELERS & RINGO STARR

This is a previously viewed LASERDISC of the rare comedy classic THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN, staring:
Peter Sellers .... Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE Ringo Starr .... Youngman Grand ESQ. Isabel Jeans .... Dame Agnes Grand Caroline Blakiston .... Hon. Esther Grand Wilfrid Hyde-White .... Captain Reginald K. Klaus Richard Attenborough .... Oxford Coach Leonard Frey .... Laurence Faggot Laurence Harvey .... Hamlet Christopher Lee .... Ship's vampire Spike Milligan .... Traffic Warden 27 Roman Polanski .... Solitary Drinker Raquel Welch .... Priestess of the Whip Tom Boyle .... My Man Jeff Victor Maddern .... Hot dog vendor Terence Alexander .... Mad Major Peter Bayliss .... Pompous Toff Joan Benham .... Socialite in Sotheby's Patrick Cargill .... Auctioneer at Sotheby's John Cleese .... Mr. Dougdale, Director in Southeby's Clive Dunn .... Sommelier Fred Emney .... Fitzgibbon Kenneth Fortescue .... Snob in Sotheby's Patrick Holt .... Duke in Sotheby's David Hutcheson .... Lord Barry Hattie Jacques .... Ginger Horton Jeremy Lloyd .... Lord Hampton David Lodge .... Ship's Guide Ferdy Mayne .... Edouard of Chez Edouard Restaurant Dennis Price .... Winthrop Robert Raglan .... Maltravers Graham Stark .... Waiter at Chez Edouard Restaurant Michael Aspel .... TV Commentator Michael Barratt .... TV Commentator Harry Carpenter .... TV Commentator Kenneth Connor Roland Culver .... Sir Herbert W. Barrington Dalby .... TV Commentator Freddie Earlle .... Sol Peter Graves .... Lord at ship's bar John Le Mesurier .... Sir John Peter Myers .... Lord Kilgallon John Snagge .... TV Commentator Leon Thau .... Engine Room Toff Frank Thornton .... Police Inspector Michael Trubshawe .... Sir Lionel Edward Underdown .... Prince Henry Alan Whicker .... TV Commentator Sean Barry-Weske .... John Lennon lookalike (uncredited) Yul Brynner .... Transvestite cabaret singer (uncredited) Graham Chapman .... Oxford Crew (uncredited) Kimberley Chung .... Yoko Ono lookalike (uncredited) Guy Middleton .... Duke of Mantisbriar (uncredited) Birthe Sector .... Slave girl (uncredited)
Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the season, the inaugural voyage of the new pleasure cruiser The Magic Christian.

BRIDES OF FU MANCHU rare vhs Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee returns as Sax Rohmer's insidious Asian villain Fu Manchu for the second of his five vehicles. This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen...Cast overview, first billed only: Christopher Lee .... Fu Manchu Douglas Wilmer .... Nayland Smith Heinz Drache .... Franz Baumer Marie Versini .... Marie Lentz Howard Marion-Crawford .... Dr. Petrie Tsai Chin .... Lin Tang Rupert Davies .... Jules Merlin Kenneth Fortescue .... Sergeant Spicer Joseph Fürst .... Otto Lentz Roger Hanin .... Inspector Grimaldi Harald Leipnitz .... Nikki Sheldon Carole Gray .... Michel Merlin Burt Kwouk .... Feno ......

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Movie description:
The beloved Miss Marple has her hands full when she tries to solve a murder case which occured on a film production set. This movie within a movie sparkles with it's own all-star cast.

Cast:Angela Lansbury, Edward Fox, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin, Kim Novak, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis

Distributed by AFD in America and Canada.

Color by Technicolor.

Additional cast: Margaret Courtenay (Mrs. Bantry); Maureen Bennett (Heather Babcock); Carolyn Pickles (Miss Giles); Eric Dodson (The Major); Thick Wilson (Mayor); Pat Nye (Mayoress); Peter Woodthorpe (Scout Master); Oriana Grieve, Kenneth Fortescue, George Silver and John Bennett (Cast of film of within film).

Additional credit: John Roberts (art direction).

About Lawrence of Arabia (Restored Version)

SYNOPSIS

Based on the real-life exploits of the legendary British scholar and soldier, T. E. Lawrence. Stationed in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence languished in the map-making department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. His desert journey inspired his first military success, when he lead a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba. Lawrence's military career flourished and he attempted to forge a new, united Arab nation out of squabbling tribes.

Additional cast members: Howard Marion Crawford (Medical Officer); Jack Gwillin (Club Secretary); Hugh Miller (R.A.M.C. Colonel); John Ruddock (Elder Martin); Kenneth Fortescue (Allenby's Aide); Stuart Sanders (Regimental Sergeant-Major); Fernando Sancho (Turk Sergeant); Emilio Noriega (Train Wreck Stunt); and Cher Kaoui, Mohammed Habachi and members of the Jordanian Desert Patrol and the Royal Moroccan Army Camel Corps.

Kipling On TV

Description: A scene from the first episode of the Kipling stories, being recorded by the BBC for television. The actors, Barry Letts, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Fortescue star in the production.