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Angus Kennedy (actor)

British actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4764147
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Angus Kennedy (born 1 March 1958) is a British actor in television and theatre.

Career

Kennedy trained at the Guildford School of Acting. He did repertory work at Watford, Farnham, Leatherhead, Hull, Huddersfield, Basingstoke, plus London's West End in Number One at the Queens Theatre London, and Saki at the Gate Theatre, He has done theatre tours all over Europe in Animal Farm, The Mousetrap and School for Scandal. His has appeared regularly on TV and Film.

Between 2005 and 2008, he filmed three series of the internationally successful series Genie in the House for Nickelodeon, in which he played Max Baxter (Uncle Max). He is in the feature films Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Allied directed by Robert Zemeckis. Intrigo: Death of an Author directed by Daniel Alfredson. Other screenwork includes Back to Life for the BBC. Governor Wilkes in the Sci Fi film Snowflakes. The zombie thriller Alive, directed by David Marantz, which was interrupted by the COVID-19 lockdown and took nearly a year to complete. He appears in the Netflix feature film Love at First Sight.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4764147. VIAF identifies the subject as 120605018. The Library of Congress control number is no2010070663. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2005 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Angus Kennedy (actor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.