Ken Renard (1905-1993) was an actor in the United States. He had roles in Strange Fruit on stage in 1945,[1] the film True Grit (1969) and the television series Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957).[2] He was born on November 19, 1905 in Port of Spain, Trinidad as Kenneth Fitzroy Renwick.^{[citation needed]} He died on November 16, 1993 in Los Angeles County, California.[3]

Ken Renard
Renard in The Return of Andrew Bentley, a 1961 episode of Thriller
Born	Kenneth Fitzroy Renwick (1905-11-19)19 November 1905 Port of Spain, Trinidad
Died	16 November 1993(1993-11-16) (aged 87) Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor

He portrayed Toussaint Louverture in the film Lydia Bailey. He appeared on the television show The Name of the Game (1968).

Filmography

Film

• Murder with Music (1941) as Bill Smith, using parts of the film Mistaken Identity[4]
• Killer Diller (1948) as The Great Voodoo
• Lydia Bailey (1952) as Toussaint L'Ouverture (uncredited)
• Something of Value (1957) as Karanja, father of Kimani
• These Thousand Hills (1959) as Happy, the waiter (uncredited)
• Home From the Hill (1960) as Chauncey (Hunnicutt butler)
• Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) as Walter
• The Chase (1966) as Sam[5]
• True Grit (1969) as Yarnell
• Double Indelnity (1973, TV Movie) as Porter
• Sparkle (1976) as Shimmy Dodson
• Treasure of Matecumbe (1976) as Customer
• The Farmer (1977) as Gumshoe
• Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) as Abbot
• Pete's Dragon (1977) as African-American Townsman (uncredited)

Television

• The Posthumous Dead (1950)[6]
• Thriller[7] (1961) as Jacob Blount
• Sam Benedict (1962, Episode: "Maddon's Folly") as Bentley Coombs
• The Outer Limits (1963, Episode: "Corpus Earthling") as Caretaker
• The Name of the Game (1968, Episode: "Ordeal") as William
• Gunsmoke (1975, Episode: "I Have Promises to Keep") as Tonkowa[8]

References

External links

• Ken Renard on Find a Grave
• Ken Renard on IMDb