His parents, wanting him to have the security they lacked, were worried. He also felt that the stage could offer more money. Later, he asserted that he had sought out acting classes because that was the sort of place where you met attractive women. After leaving it in 1937, he spent a year as a draughtsman, took up furniture design, and then announced to his horrified parents that he wanted to be an actor. He went to elementary school and the Northern Polytechnic, London. The poverty in which he grew up made him determined to better himself. Kossoff was the son of a poor Russian East End garment worker. He was well suited to underline the weakness of the colonel, one of four allied occupation colleagues, a man suddenly lost when scientifically inexplicable events do not fit in with his narrow materialism. He had sprung to prominence in 1952 when he played the Russian Colonel Alexander Ikonenko in Peter Ustinov's West End play The Love Of Four Colonels. Nothing he did after it sustained his reputation at quite that level. He's probably the best thing I've ever done.' He was even better pleased when Alf recorded cockney songs on several LPs.īut, crucially, Kossoff was famous - and much loved - in the 1960s for his simple and humorous paraphrasing of the Bible into his own stories, which he read on television and radio in the rich tones of an understated Jewish comedian. A lot of hard work went into creating him. 'He helps Kossoff to choose the parts he wants in straight plays and to say 'No' to the others. 'Alf earns 10 times as much as Kossoff, mate,' he told one journalist. It was often suggested to Kossoff that as an amiable countryside oaf, Alf was hardly the sort of part that gave full rein to his powers. In the late 1950s, he was best known for playing the bucolic old rogue Alf Larkin in the television series The Larkins. He was also credible and creditable in John Huston's Freud (1962), where the waspish, Old Testament prophet side of his character came more into play than usual. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.His other movies included I Am A Camera (1955), The Mouse That Roared (1959) and The Mouse On The Moon (1963). Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. If this book is over 5 years old, then please expect the pages to be yellowing or to have age spots.

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The spine is likely creased and the cover scuffed or slightly torn. The book is perfectly readable and fit for use, although it shows signs of previous ownership. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering.

Small Town Is a World by David Kossoff