Kevin Howarth

British actor Kevin Howarth was born in Keresley, a village and civil parish of the city of Coventry in the county of Warwickshire, to his mother Betty Jeanetta Smith (née Gridley) and his father Peter William Walton Smith. The youngest of six children his mother died of cancer when Kevin was just one year old leaving him and his five older siblings to be raised on the home front by their paternal grandmother, Ada Smith (née Medforth), while their father brought in the money by working permanent night shifts as an engineer at the famous Jaguar Cars factory. He attended the Hill Farm Primary Schools in Coventry, where his first taste of acting in front of an audience was at the tender age of 6 playing a Chinaman in a school production. Many more school productions followed and a natural instinct for acting was exposed. He went on to attend the President Kennedy School (a coeducational secondary school and sixth form) where he felt constrained by the uninspiring curriculum of the then