Ken Smith (Home and Away)
Ken Smith | |
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Home and Away character | |
Portrayed by | Anthony Phelan |
Duration | 1999–2001, 2003, 2004 |
First appearance | 26 April 1999 |
Last appearance | 30 June 2004 |
Classification | Lily Smith |
Ken Smith is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Home and Away, played by Anthony Phelan.[1] He made his first appearance on 26 April 1999 and departed on 28 July 2000 following the character's death. Phelan reprised the role when the character reappeared as a ghost until 2004.
Ken's storylines include him battling alcoholism, holding down a job and repairing his relationship with his three children
), who fosters his children and they later become engaged. Ken is killed when a car falls on top of him at work after a jack slips. Ken continues to appear in the visions of his childrenStorylines
Ken arrives in Summer Bay after spotting his estranged daughter
Ken returns to the Bay several months later a changed man and resumes his relationship with Irene. Will is still unconvinced and seemingly catches Ken drinking alcohol with his boss
Several days before the wedding, while Ken and Will are working together in the garage, Ken is under the car when the jack slips and is crushed as a result. Will panics and sends
Reception
While visiting Kilcullen to see where his grandfather had lived and worked, Phelan found himself mobbed in public by local schoolchildren who recognised him from the serial.[3]
Jackie Brygel of the Herald Sun criticised the way Ken tried to woo Irene Roberts, writing "here's a tip for you, Ken. Making a woman pay for her own soft-serve cone at the ice cream van is definitely not the way to her heart."[4]
References
- ^ "Strange Interlude Media release" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
- Trinity Mirror. 14 July 2001. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ^ "Australian death severs link". The Kildare Nationalist. 30 April 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- ^ Brygel, Jackie (2 February 2000). "Soap dish". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2 March 2024 – via Gale.