Kerry Jordan

New Zealander Kerry Jordan was a popular stage, television and radio actor in South Africa. While in New Zealand he studied law for four years, then became a fruit farmer and broadcaster for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service, before going to England on a double scholarship to the Royal Society for Dramatic Art (RADA). Early roles in Britain included The Flying Scot, a 1957 train robbery film and in the television play series Theatre Night (BBC, 1957) as Bergerat in Jean-Paul Sartre's Nekrassov. Between 1960 to 1961, Kerry played a regular role as Mr Macintosh in Glencannon, a filmed comedy series concerning the exploits of a chief engineer working on a tramp steamer. This series was a British/American co-production transmitted in Britain on ITV. Kerry Jordan moved to South Africa in 1964, his last British credit being the BBC Francis Durbridge thriller Melissa, a six-part serial broadcast in April and May of that year. That same year in South Africa, Kerry won a role in the high p