![]() ![]() Film credits included The Young Lovers (1954 - for which he won a British Academy Film Award as Most Promising Newcomer to Film), A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), his role as Morry in the Oscar-winning The Bespoke Overcoat (1956), Professor Kokintz in The Mouse that Roared (1959), starring Peter Sellers, and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon (1963) with Bernard Cribbins. His best-known television roles were the hen-pecked husband Alf Larkin in The Larkins, first broadcast in 1958, and a Jewish furniture maker in A Little Big Business. In addition to this, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. ![]() He was a Member of the Society of Artists and Designers. He took part in numerous plays and films. His first stage appearance was at the Unity Theatre in 1942 at the age of 23. Kossoff started working in light entertainment on British television in the years following World War II, during which he briefly served in the military. He attended the Northern Polytechnic, leaving in 1937 to work as a draughtsman and then a furniture designer for a year before becoming an actor. ![]() In its obituary of David Kossoff, The Scotsman wrote how he was "a man of deep convictions and proud of his Jewish origins". His father, Louis Kossoff (1883–1943), was a tailor, while another son, the eldest named Alec, changed his surname to Keith (aka Alan Keith) the middle sister was named Sarah Rebecca (Sadie). Kossoff was born in Hackney, London, the youngest of three children, to poor Russian-Jewish parents. ![]()
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