Kenneth Collard was born in Rinteln, in the former West Germany, to a Czech German mother and an English Greek father, and raised in Kent in the UK. He studied Electronic Engineering in Rochester after leaving school at seventeen, and then went on to study at The Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. His first film role was in Lucasfilms' Indiana Jones Chronicles Attack of The Hawkmen shot in Prague, followed by FineLines' Passion in The Desert, shooting in Jordan.