Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Kenneth Haigh (born 25 March 1931 in Mexborough, Yorkshire) is an English actor. He played the central role of Jimmy Porter in the very first production of John Osborne's seminal play Look Back in Anger in 1956. His performance in a 1958 Broadway theatre production of that play so moved one young woman in the audience that she mounted the stage and slapped him in mid-performance. For the film version produced that year, he was passed over in favour of Richard Burton.. }
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- Kenneth_Haigh comment "Kenneth Haigh (born 25 March 1931 in Mexborough, Yorkshire) is an English actor. He played the central role of Jimmy Porter in the very first production of John Osborne's seminal play Look Back in Anger in 1956. His performance in a 1958 Broadway theatre production of that play so moved one young woman in the audience that she mounted the stage and slapped him in mid-performance. For the film version produced that year, he was passed over in favour of Richard Burton.".