David Stanley Kernan was an English actor, best known as an interpreter of the songs of Stephen Sondheim.
16 Facts About David Kernan
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David Stanley Kernan was born 23 June 1938 in East Ham, London, to Joseph and Lily Kernan.
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David Kernan's father abandoned the family shortly after his birth.
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At the age of four, David Kernan was sent to live with his grandmother in Oxford.
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David Kernan began singing as a child with the choir at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, and became head chorister.
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David Kernan used the income to pay for acting, dancing, and singing lessons.
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David Kernan played the role of Count Malcolm in the original London production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
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David Kernan made two appearances on BBC TV's long running music hall variety show, The Good Old Days, in the 1970s and 1980s.
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David Kernan made his television debut singing with Millicent Martin on the BBC current affairs series Tonight.
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David Kernan played the role of Captain Charles Hammond, the young lover of Lady Marjorie Bellamy, in the episode "Magic Casements".
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David Kernan had small roles in two episodes of The Avengers in the 1960s - as an amateur radio enthusiast and chess player in "Never, Never Say Die" - and, in a scene-stealing turn, as a foot fetishist shoe designer who, in the shuddering throes of repressed ecstasy, moulds Emma Peel's left foot in plaster of Paris, in "Quick Quick, Slow Death".
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David Kernan co-starred as Mr Kodaly opposite Robin Ellis in the 1980s television version of the popular Christmas musical She Loves Me.
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David Kernan had small roles in several films, including Gaolbreak, Mix Me a Person, Farewell Performance, Zulu, Otley, Up the Chastity Belt and Carry On Abroad.
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David Kernan entered into a civil partnership with Stuart Forsyth in 2008.
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David Kernan published an autobiography, From East Ham to Broadway, in 2019.
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David Kernan suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and died on 26 December 2023 at the age of 85.