Leon Lissek

Leon Lissek

Birthday: 1927-01-01

Place of Birth: Australia

Biography: Leon Lissek is an Australian born actor who primarily works in the UK. He has appeared in over 80 films in a career that stretches back to the 1960s and has done extensive work in television both in the UK and Australia.

Movies

I Really Hate My Job
I Really Hate My Job

While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant i...

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Running Late
Running Late

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of...

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The Trial
The Trial

Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested....

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The Blockhouse
The Blockhouse

A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are...

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The Last Valley
The Last Valley

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Ye...

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Bloodmoon
Bloodmoon

In the small town of Coopers Bay, there are two high schools situated right next to each other. Ther...

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Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files

A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 politi...

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The Book of Eve
The Book of Eve

A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around...

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God's Outlaw
God's Outlaw

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bib...

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Journey to the Unknown
Journey to the Unknown

TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas ...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an...

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Young Toscanini
Young Toscanini

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man....

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The Saint and the Brave Goose
The Saint and the Brave Goose

A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as ...

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The Horsemen
The Horsemen

In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg an...

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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...

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Isadora
Isadora

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...

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For My Baby
For My Baby

A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to ...

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Nobody's Children
Nobody's Children

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child....

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Small Zones
Small Zones

Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husban...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

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Personal Services
Personal Services

Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become th...

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Underground
Underground

An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general....

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Where's Jack?
Where's Jack?

Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s...

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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured...

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Sweeney 2
Sweeney 2

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting a...

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Paul: The Emissary
Paul: The Emissary

Robert Marcarelli - In this impressive drama, starring Gary Cooper, we follow Saul the angry zealot ...

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Song of Songs
Song of Songs

Devoutly religious Ruth returns from Israel to care for her dying mother, but when she tries to brin...

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Time Bandits
Time Bandits

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. F...

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Inspector Clouseau
Inspector Clouseau

Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland ...

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Countess Dracula
Countess Dracula

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory linea...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I...

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Squaring the Circle
Squaring the Circle

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dic...

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Tales That Witness Madness
Tales That Witness Madness

Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Vis...

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Esther Kahn
Esther Kahn

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress....

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Nicholas and Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

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The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Tragedy of Coriolanus

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....

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Nostradamus
Nostradamus

A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to ...

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Tell Me Lies
Tell Me Lies

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’...

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The Island of Adventure
The Island of Adventure

Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as th...

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Marat/Sade
Marat/Sade

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the pat...

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Surviving Picasso
Surviving Picasso

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Pica...

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The Fools on the Hill
The Fools on the Hill

This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on Novembe...

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Breathtaking
Breathtaking

A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder....

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Baal
Baal

Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to ...

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Whoops Apocalypse
Whoops Apocalypse

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrori...

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The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back th...

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