Name	Ken Morley
Height	5'8
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	17-Jan-1943
Place of Birth	America
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Kenneth William Morley was born in Chorley Hospital, Lancashire on 17th January 1943 at 6am . He was the only child born to engineer Frank Morley and his wife Phylliss. Ken weighed 7lb 3oz at birth. He was educated at St. Peters Church of England School and Elementary School until the age of 12 and then went to Ashworth College until he was fifteen. He left school with no qualifications. His best friend at school was Peter Smith. Ken trained as an apprentice mechanic then in September 1963 he enrolled at Alston Hall College where he gained 6 O levels and 2 A levels. In 1966 he moved to London and became a teacher at a primary school in Holloway Road. He then became a supply teacher in Lancashire mainly teaching History and English. Later in his teaching career, Ken was a teacher at Smithills High School in Bolton, Craigmount School in Edinburgh and Archbishop Tennison School in London. Ken's father Frank died on 1 April 1970.

Ken made his television debut in Crown Court in 1972 and his stage debut in Romeo and Juliet in Sheffield. The following two years were spent at the Oxford Playhouse and with the Half Moon Theatre Company. In 1974 he enrolled at Manchester University reading English and Drama. During his studies he met a student teacher called Sue who became his girlfriend - and later his wife. Ken began acting on stage in productions including The Adventures of Mr Toad, Dracula, Pinocchio, Free Chicken Dinners, Cool Million, The Resistible Rise of Arturo, The Strongest Man In The World, Drums In The Night, Habeas Corpus, The Tempest, The Poet and The Women, What The Butler Saw, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist,