Metadata: Papers of David Kossoff
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 348 A2084
- Title:
- Papers of David Kossoff
- Title (official language):
- Papers of David Kossoff
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kossoff, David
- Date(s):
- 1934/2002
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 19 boxes; 1 folder
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The papers have been divided into seven sections: papers relating to stories and publications, 1960-2002; papers relating to films, plays and performances, 1953-2002; scripts and papers relating to radio and TV recordings, 1952-77; press cuttings, 1959-83; fan mail, 1945-95; photographs and drawings, 1969-2001; and other paper including some relating to his earlier life, charity work and an honorary fellowship, 1934-87.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- David Kossoff (1919-2005) was an actor, writer and raconteur. He was born in London to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. His father was a tailor. Kossoff attended the Northern Polytechnic, London. He married twice. He had two sons with his second wife Margaret Jenkins and a daughter from his first marriage. Following the death of his son Paul, who was a guitarist with the band Free, he became an anti-drug campaigner and established the Paul Kossoff Foundation. 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. Film credits include The Young Lovers (1954), A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), Morry in The Bespoke Overcoat (1956), and Professor Kokintz in The Mouse that Roared(1959) and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon. He was well-known for his story telling skills, particularly with regard to reinterpreting the Bible. In 1953 he played the character Lemuel ‘Lemmy’ Barnet in the radio series Journey into Space.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kossoff. David
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections