![]() ![]() ![]() The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in relative poverty and was educated at a series of art and architecture schools, including the capital’s Northern Polytechnic.He worked for some time as a draughtsman, commercial artist and a furniture designer before deciding, at the age of 23, to try his luck on the stage and it was during World War Two that he made his debut with the Left-wing Unity Theatre.For three years he not only acted for the company, but wrote and directed too. It later became a television series.His son, Paul Kossoff, was a guitarist in the rock band Free whose premature death as a result of heroin addiction saw him become a fervent anti-drug campaigner.David Kossoff was born on 24 November, 1919, in London. ![]() DAVID KOSSOFF Best known for his role as Alf Larkin in hit comedy series ‘The Larkins’, David Kossoff was a much-loved British actor who died on 23 March, 2005, at the age of 85.He also had memorable and award-winning roles in films such as ‘A Kid for Two Farthings’ and ‘The Bespoke Overcoat’ but it was ultimately the theatre that remained closest to his heart, with notable successes in Peter Ustinov’s ‘The Love of Four Colonels’ and his own one-man show ‘A Funny Kind of Evening with David Kossoff’.Also a revered writer well-known for his humorous interpretations of the Bible, he famously turned the Gospels into a series of lively monologues in his most famous book ‘The Book of Witnesses’. ![]()
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