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Peter Porteous (1930-2005) was an English actor. During his early career he used the stage name Kenneth Warren, which made Kenneth J. Warren have to adopt a middle initial. Ironically when Kenneth J. Warren rose to prominence, Porteous reverted to his real name.

He played Lenkin in Octopussy and a gasworks supervisor in the Living Daylights.

Peter Porteous trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama which, when he was there in the 1950s, occupied premises in the Royal Albert Hall. He made his London theatre debut in 1960 at the Aldwich Theatre in Brouhaha, playing opposite Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries and Leo McKern. He played a pygmy, blacked up and wearing a kilt! He played numerous Shakespearian roles and major roles in plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Albert Camus,Harold Pinter and Tom Murphy. His professional film life started when he worked for the great German film director, Otto Preminger, in the film St Joan with Jean Seburg. Sadly, Peter died on 12th August 2005 at Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, the Retirement /Nursing Home for actors run by the Actors' Benevolent Fund.

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