Kenneth j warren biography

by Pete Stampede

Australian Kenneth J. Warren (1929-73) was an unmistakable character, bald, burly and very often enjoyably hovering on the brink of overdoing it. He first came to attention in the stage play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (later filmed, but not with him), and after performing it in Britain, in 1958, decided to stay.

His film career began with I Was Monty's Double (1958, with Steven Berkoff), but is more typified by his appearances in crime dramas, including Joseph Losey's The Criminal (1960), and The Informers (1963), a film absolutely dripping with Avengers faces, including Harry Landis and John Cowley, both fellow "Little Wonders" cast members.

Warren had typically forceful roles in I, Monster (1970) and The Creeping Flesh (1972), both period horrors starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Strangely, neither was made for Hammer; Demons of the Mind (1971), which Warren made between the two, was, but was an unch