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16 Facts About Ken Bones

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Ken Bones was born on 11 June 1947 and is an English actor.

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Ken Bones is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Ken Bones joined the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury in 1976, and with whom he played Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret, Mr Shanks in Habeas Corpus, Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard, Milo Tindal in Sleuth and Curly Delafield in Knuckle.

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In 1978 Ken Bones played Lucifer in the first modern revival of The Lincoln Mystery Cycle in Lincoln Cathedral.

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In 1979 Ken Bones played the Earl of Warwick in Saint Joan, Eilert Loevborg in Hedda Gabler with Gayle Hunnicutt, and John in Absent Friends.

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In London's West End Ken Bones has appeared in You Never Can Tell, Communicating Doors, Becket, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and Antony and Cleopatra; and for other theatres Design for Living, Relative Values, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream Doctor Faustus with Ben Kingsley, and Sir Thomas More.

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Ken Bones played Sergeant Parkes in an episode of Spearhead, played a small role in Series 3 of the long running TV series, The Bill, Paul Roussillon in Bergerac, and a Superintendent in London's Burning.

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Also in 1988 Ken Bones played Victorian medium Robert James Lees in ITV's Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine which was huge ratings success around the world.

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Ken Bones played Admiral Bill Wilson in the 1999 film Wing Commander, and in 2001 he played Banquo in a made-for-television film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Macbeth which starred Antony Sher as Macbeth.

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In 2002 Ken Bones played Keith Burns in an episode of Spooks and in 2003 appeared in Casualty as Robbie.

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Ken Bones has played a character named Sethius in popular CBBC television series Young Dracula.

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Ken Bones portrays Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940, in 2012's Season 2 of Upstairs Downstairs, the 2010 British television series.

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Ken Bones appeared in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special The Day of the Doctor as The General in 2013, and reprised the role in the Series 9 finale Hell Bent before passing the role on to T'Nia Miller.

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Ken Bones played Publican No 7 in The World's End, and the same year it was announced that he had joined the cast of Atlantis.

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In 2017 Ken Bones appeared in the BBC TV series Father Brown episode 5.3 "The Eve of St John" as a warlock, Eugene Bone.

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Ken Bones played Cardinal Leto the Papal envoy in Versailles.