Kenneth Sandford [SEP] educated at
Festival was established in 1994, he often performed and lectured for the festival's audiences and held master classes for its performers.
Beginnings.
Kenneth Sandford was born Kenneth Parkin in Godalming, Surrey and raised in Sheffield, where his father became landlord of a pub. Sandford hoped to be an artist, studying painting at the College of Arts and Crafts in Sheffield, where he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. After he returned from service in the Royal Air Force during World War II,
Kenneth Cranham as James Reaper, a farmer at Sandford
- Julia Deakin as Mary Porter, Roy's wife who runs a pub called The Crown at Sandford
- Kevin Eldon as Sergeant Tony Fisher, Sandford Police
- Martin Freeman as Met Sergeant, from the Metropolitan Police in London
- Paul Freeman as Rev. Philip Shooter, a cleric in Sandford
- Karl Johnson as Bob Walker, the oldest officer in the Sandford police
- Lucy Punch as Eve Draper, an actress and a city council member at Sandford