Joss Ackland Biography

Joss Ackland the distinguished English actor who has appeared in over 100 movies scores of plays and a plethora of television programs in his six-decade career was born Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland on February 29 1928 in North Kensington London. After attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama the 17-year-old Ackland made his professional stage debut in The Hasty Heart in 1945. Although he first appeared on film in John Boulting's and Roy Boulting's Oscar-winning thriller Seven Days to Noon (1950) in an uncredited bit role he made his credited debut in a supporting role in Vernon Sewell's Ghost Ship (1952). He would not again grace the big screen until the end of the decade. Instead Ackland spent the latter half of the 1940s and the first half of the 1950s honing his craft in regional theatrical companies. In 1955 he left the English stage behind and moved to Africa to manage a tea plantation an experience that likely informed his heralded performance 20 years later in White Mischief (1987). In his two years in Africa he wrote plays and did service as a radio disc jockey. Upon his return to England in 1957 he joined the Old Vic company.

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