Charismatic British actor Kevin Howarth was born Kevin Mark Smith in Keresley, a village and civil parish of the city of Coventry in the county of Warwickshire, to his Essex born mother Betty Jeanetta Smith (née Gridley) and his Lincolnshire born father Peter William Walton Smith. The youngest of six children his mother died of cancer when Kevin ...
[When asked how he got into acting and whether it was something he always wanted to do] My father was a bit of a film buff and when I was young I remember watching many wonderful movies with him, real classics. His enthusiasm for a great story, be it on film or in a book, certainly rubbed off on me. I do remember telling him [more than] once that I would like to be an actor, but I was very young at the time and wondering and dreaming about many things. I have certainly taken a circuitous and unorthodox route through life to eventually become an actor. I believe acting, and the opportunity that arose to get a classical drama college education, really finally found me and sort of forced my hand - in some ways there was almost a weird inevitability about it.
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Howarth has credited his father for being a huge influence on his love of films, which he acknowledges planted the seed for his future career.
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Kevin changed his surname from Smith to Howarth as a tribute to his grandmother and his biological grandfather (who still remains somewhat of a mystery) by conjoining part of her maiden name (Medforth) with his army regiment (The Green Howards). It transpired, after some later family research, that his grandfather's real name was actually William Walton, which coincidentally happened to be his father's middle names.
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