An Irish actor, born in Skibbereen, Ireland on October 5, 1924. Kieron was educated in Dublin and then went to university to study medicine, but he quit his medical studies to join the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Dublin, and after graduating he headed to England, where he appeared in the play Wuthering Heights, which led him to present his first films : The Voice Within (1945), and Anna Karenina (1948). Kieron continued his film career, then he traveled to Hollywood and presented some works that did not satisfy his ambitions, so he returned to England to continue his work in cinema, theater and television. Among his most notable work: David and Bathsheba (1951), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), The Day of the Triffids (1963), and Arabesque (1966). He died on July 15, 2007 in France.