Leo McKern
Birthday: 1920-03-16
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian-born English actor who appeared in numerous British and Australian television programmes and movies, and more than 200 stage roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article leo McKern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
A Man for All Seasons
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
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Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each oth...
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Hot Enough for June
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...
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The Blue Lagoon
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical isla...
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Murder with Mirrors
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to l...
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The Mouse That Roared
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare...
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X: The Unknown
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and pro...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're ...
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Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spiri...
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Candleshoe
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estat...
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Help!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ...
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Time Without Pity
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a week...
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Massacre in Rome
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military g...
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Ryan's Daughter
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affai...
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The Last Tasmanian
The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Tr...
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Mr. Topaze
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa...
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Yesterday's Enemy
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the sold...
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King and Country
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The office...
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes ...
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Mafia No!
A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression o...
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Scent of Mystery
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain....
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Travelling North
Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for...
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Web of Evidence
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murd...
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Tea Party
Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sis...
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Monsignor Quixote
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a ...
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The Inspector
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palesti...
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The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da...
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Assignment K
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. S...
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Rumpole of the Bailey
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day h...
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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem....
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The Last Romantics
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and...
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas t...
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Murder in the Cathedral
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles ...
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Children of the Damned
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but id...
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The Nativity
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas....
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Rumpole's Return
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-esta...
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An Afternoon at the Festival
Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female st...
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Country
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event,...
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Danger! Men Working
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As th...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpecte...
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King Lear
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his ...
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The Life of Galileo
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the eart...
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The Boxwallah
Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of t...
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Doctor in Distress
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lanc...
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The Omen
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without ...
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of societ...
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The Master Builder
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a succe...
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Damien - Omen II
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his we...
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting De...
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The House on Garibaldi Street
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they ...
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Good King Wenceslas
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people....
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A Foreign Field
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the islan...
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All for Mary
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set...
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Nobody Runs Forever
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level...
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On the Eve of Publication
TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion ...
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The Drinking Party
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. E...
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The Horse Without a Head
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up...
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Federation
An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of th...
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