John Kane

John Kane was born on Apr 18, 1946 in UK. John Kane's big-screen debut came with The Gathering Storm directed by Herbert Wise in 1974, strarring Brendan Bracken. John Kane is known for Prick Up Your Ears directed by Stephen Frears, Gary Oldman stars as Joe Orton and Alfred Molina as Kenneth Halliwell. The upcoming new movie John Kane plays is The Wicker Tree which will be released on Jan 27, 2012.

John Kane was born David John Kane in Dundee, Angus, Scotland. He studied drama in Glasgow but left before graduating as he had won a place in the then new Actors Studio of the Royal Shakespeare Company. After seven years with the company we left to write two series one for BBC 1 and the second for BBC 2 both starring the comic actor Terry Scott. For the next twenty odd years he wrote various television shows both sitcoms and for children while returning to the RSC or another twelve seasons. He retired in 2006 and now lives with his wife in the South of France.