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Scottish actor and playwright (–)

Norman McKinnel
Born	()10 February Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, UK
Died	29 March () (aged&#;62) London, England, UK
Other&#;names	Norman McKinnell
Occupation	Actor
Years&#;active	&#;
Notable work	The Bishop's Candlesticks

Norman McKinnel (10 February &#; 29 March ) was a Scottish stage and film actor and playwright, active from the s until his death.

He appeared in many stage roles in the UK and overseas as well as featuring in a number of films, the best known of which is Alfred Hitchcock's production Downhill. His surname was sometimes mistranscribed as McKinnell.

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Early years

McKinnel was born in at Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire (since incorporated into Dumfries) and originally intended to follow his father into the engineering business before deciding to enter the acting profession. As a playwright he is known for the play, The Bishop's Candlesticks, an adaptation of a section of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

Career

McKinnel's first stage appearance was in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex in and he soon based himself in London to further his career. He became known over the course of his career for playing many Shakespearian roles, and his stage work took him the U.S., Australia and South Africa. He was known for writing several easily stageable one-act plays, the most successful of which was The Bishop's Candlesticks ().

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McKinnel's film career began in in King John, the earliest known example of Shakespeare on film. The work consisted of four brief scenes from the play, and a two-minute fragment survives at the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam.

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McKinnel did not act on screen again until the mids, when he began to make further film appearances fitted in around his stage work. He played the title character in the original London production of Hobson's Choice in Notably, he appeared as the same character (Nathaniel Jeffcote) in three separate film versions of the same play Hindle Wakes, in and silent adaptations and again in in sound.

In he played Paul Dombey in the first screen version of the Charles Dickens novel Dombey and Son. McKinnel's most widely known film to contemporary audiences is Hitchcock's Downhill, as the harsh but ultimately repentant patriarch opposite Ivor Novello. ^{[citation needed]}

Death

McKinnel died of a heart attack in London on 29 March , aged ^[1]

Filmography

References

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