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name: "Kenneth Ives"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kenneth-ives"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "26 March 1934"
died: "6 March 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-20T05:07:08.412074+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kenneth Ives

Director. Born 26 March 1934 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK. Died 6 March 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 26 March 1934, West Ham, Essex, England, UK
- **Died:** 6 March 2022
- **Active:** 1968–1977
- **Frequently works with:** [Viktors Ritelis](https://film.one/person/viktors-ritelis.md), James Andrew Hall, Paul Annett, Willis Hall
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Ives, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6390236, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412339/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143394

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Lion in Winter*](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md) (81)

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## Biography

Kenneth Ives (26 March 1934 – 6 March 2022) was a British actor and television director. He began his career as an actor, appearing in the 1968 film *The Lion in Winter* as Queen Eleanor's Guard and in television series including *Doctor Who* (1968) and *The First Churchills* (1969).

He later worked primarily as a director, with credits on episodes of *Play for Today* (1970s), *Secret Army* (1977), *All Creatures Great and Small* (1978) and *Poldark* (1975), as well as BBC productions of plays by Harold Pinter and August Strindberg for the *Theatre Night* strand in the 1980s.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lion in Winter* (1968), Fi1m 81, as Queen Eleanor's Guard — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Birthday Party* (1987), Director
- *Theatre Night* (1985), series, Director
- *One for the Road* (1985), Director
- *The Dumb Waiter* (1985), Director
- *Summer Season* (1985), series, Director
- *Vicious Circle* (1985), Director
- *A Kind of Alaska* (1984), Director
- *Landscape* (1983), Director
- *The Caretaker* (1981), Director
- *The Executioner* (1980), Director
- *Donkeys' Years* (1980), Director
- *Don't Be Silly* (1979), Director
- *Butterflies Don't Count* (1978), Director
- *All Creatures Great and Small* (1978), series, Director
- *1990* (1977), series, Director
- *Secret Army* (1977), series, Director
- *Gangsters* (1976), series, Director
- *The Button Man* (1976), Director
- *Poldark* (1975), series, Director
- *Churchill's People* (1974), series, Director
- *Is It Something I Said?* (1974), Director
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, Director
- *Bedtime Stories* (1974), series, Director
- *Centre Play* (1973), series, Director
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1971), series, as Hawkeye
- *Angels Are So Few* (1970), Actor
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Director
- *The Right Prospectus* (1970), as Classics Master
- *Softly Softly: Task Force* (1969), series, Director
- *Doctor Who: The Dominators* (1968), as Toba
- *The Lion in Winter* (1968), as Queen Eleanor's Guard — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-in-winter.md)
- *The Deadly Affair* (1967), as Stage Hand
- *Treasure Island* (1965), as Hunter
- *Doctor Who* (1963), series, as Toba — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

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