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Ken Renard

1905 – 1993

Actor in the United States

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Lived 1905 – 1993 (aged 87). Ken Renard was a performing artist, film actor, stage actor, television actor and actor.

Ken Renard (19 Novemnber 1905 – 16 November 1993) was an actor in the United States. He had roles in Strange Fruit on stage in 1945, the film True Grit and the television series Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957). He was born on November 19, 1905, in Port of Spain, Trinidad as Kenneth Fitzroy Renwick. He died on November 16, 1993, in Los Angeles County, California.

He portrayed Toussaint Louverture in the film Lydia Bailey. He appeared on the television show The Name of the Game (1968).

Filmography Film Sugar Hill Baby (1932? 1938?) Murder with Music (1941) as Bill Smith, using parts of the film Mistaken Identity Killer Diller (1948) as The Great Voodoo Lydia Bailey (1952) as Toussaint L'Ouverture (uncredited) Something of Value (1957) as Karanja, father of Kimani These Thousand Hills (1959) as Happy, the waiter (uncredited) Home From the Hill (1960) as Chauncey (Hunnicutt butler) Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) as Walter The Chase (1966) as Sam True Grit (1969) as Yarnell Double Indemnity (1973, TV Movie) as Porter Sparkle (1976) as Shimmy Dodson Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) as Customer The Farmer (1977) as Gumshoe Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) as Abbot Pete's Dragon (1977) as African-American Townsman (uncredited)

Television The Posthumous Dead (1950) Thriller (1961) as Jacob Blount Sam Benedict (1962, Episode: "Maddon's Folly") as Bentley Coombs The Outer Limits (1963, Episode: "Corpus Earthling") as Caretaker The Virginian (1968, S8 E12: "Nora") as Grey Feather The Name of the Game (1968, Episode: "Ordeal") as William Gunsmoke (1975, Episode: "I Have Promises to Keep") as Tonkowa Mannix The Huntdown 1967 Television

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Who was Ken Renard?

actor in the United States

When was Ken Renard born?

Ken Renard was born on 19 November 1905 in Port of Spain.

When did Ken Renard die?

Ken Renard died on 16 November 1993 in Los Angeles County, California.

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Ken Renard was a performing artist, film actor, stage actor, television actor and actor.

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