#taking the play to Broadway‚ Haigh ended up staying a while and toyed with a career in the states; he even squeezed in an episode of

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A very young Kenneth Haigh stars as intrepid reporter Tony Johnson in The Vise: Week-End Guest (1.26, ABC, 1955); this episode eventually aired in the UK in 1962 as part of ITV's Tension anthology

#fave spotting #kenneth haigh #the vise #man at the top #joe lampton #tension #1955 #abc #1962 #character actors #for more on the complexities of The Vise see previous faves spotted blah blah yadda yadda #i wouldn't perhaps class Haigh as a fave usually‚ or at least one for spotting; no slight intended‚ actually he's an actor i enjoy very #much and whose work is always worth checking out. it's just that i wouldn't normally get the urge to make a little post about him popping #up. the novelty here is simply how incredibly young he is; this is one of his very first screen appearances‚ not only many years before his #(arguably defining) role as Joe Lampton in Man at the Top‚ but actually before Joe Lampton even existed (John Braine wouldn't publish #his first novel Room at the Top until 1957). before he was well known on screen‚ Haigh was a firebrand on the stage but this guest spot #predates even that: it would be the following year that he originated the role of Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's seminal Look Back in Anger #winning glowing reviews (not enough to prevent him being passed over for Richard Burton in the 1959 film version) #taking the play to Broadway‚ Haigh ended up staying a while and toyed with a career in the states; he even squeezed in an episode of #The Twilight Zone‚ but ended up returning home and settling into a career as one of Britain's pre eminent character actors #tho i think his first love (as with many of his generation) remained the stage