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Kenneth Carten
 Kenneth Hare Bicker-Caarten (29 August 1911 - 1980) was an English actor who worked under the name Kenneth Carten. BiographyKenneth Hare Bicker-Caarten was born on 29 August 1911 at Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, London, the son of middle-class parents Catherine and Edwin Hare Bicker-Caarten.[1] His sisters were playwrights Waveney Carten and Audrey Carten.[citation needed] Tallulah Bankhead, a very close friend of his sister, Audrey, became a surrogate mother to Carten, who during the summer break from Eton College, went to live with them.[2] In the late 1930s, with his sister, Audrey, he frequented the social circle of Elvira Mullens Barney.[citation needed] Appearances
After leaving acting, he became a theatrical agent; his clients included Laurence Olivier, Noël Coward and Googie Withers. He discovered and represented Peter Sallis.[7] He worked for the Myron Selznick corporation.[citation needed] He represented also Amelia Hall, who, in her memoirs, wrote: "I returned to my Hampstead digs and phoned Kenneth Carten. "Mr Carten, I cannot take part in the murder of a masterpiece." In his quiet, English way Kenneth Carten reasoned with me. He asked me to realize that not every day did an actress come to England from abroad and within two or three weeks land a role like Amanda. He begged me to put up with the script. I did. Looking back, I marvel that I was allowed to work, for I did not belong to British Equity, nor to any union."[8] He died in Kensington in 1980. References
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