🎬 Kes (1970)

Born to a miner father and a seamstress mother in Barnsley, South Yorkshire in 1953, David Bradley is best known for playing Billy Casper in Ken Loach's 1969 film, Kes. Prior to this starring role, Bradley had only ever acted in school pantomimes and secured the lead in an open audition against thousands of children. …

Grimethorpe born Freddie Fletcher is an actor who is best known for his role as Jud Casper, the bullying brother in Ken Loach's classic 1969 film Kes. Prior to the film, Fletcher had no acting experience and was working as a painter and decorator but, after the film proved a success, Fletcher secured a number of TV ro…

Lynne Perrie was a British actress who appeared in Ken Loach's Kes (1969). She is best known for playing Ivy Tilsley in Coronation Street, a role she held for over two decades. Before acting, she worked as a cabaret singer in the north of England.

Colin Welland was a British actor and screenwriter. In Ken Loach's Kes (1969) he played the sympathetic teacher Mr. Fagan, one of the few adults who treats Billy with any kindness. He later won an Academy Award for his screenplay Chariots of Fire (1981).

Brian Glover was an English actor and former wrestler best known for playing the bullying PE teacher Mr. Sugden in Ken Loach's Kes (1969). He came to acting from the wrestling ring and the classroom, and his performance in Kes became one of the most memorable in British social-realist cinema. He went on to appear in n…

Robert William Bowes (November 19, 1922 – December 1, 1979) was a British actor and teacher whose only film role was as headmaster Mr Gryce in the 1969 adaptation of Barry Hines' book "A Kestrel for a Knave".