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Leo McKern

Leo McKernAKA Leo Reginald McKern

Born: 16-Mar-1920
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 23-Jul-2002
Location of death: Bath, England
Cause of death: Illness

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Travelling North, Rumpole of the Bailey

Military service: Australian Army

Father: Norman W. McKern
Mother: Vera Martin
Wife: (div.)
Wife: Jane Holland (m. 1946, until his death, two children)
Daughter: Abigail McKern (actress)
Daughter: Harriet

    High School: Sydney Technical High School, Sydney, Australia (dropped out)
    University: (commercial art college)

    Missing Eye (glass eye, childhood accident)
    Order of Australia 1983
    Irish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Obesity, Diabetes

    TELEVISION
    Rumpole of the Bailey Horace Rumpole (1978-92)
    The Prisoner Number Two (1967-68)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (17-Mar-1999)
    Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (20-Jul-1995)
    A Foreign Field (10-Sep-1993) · Cyril
    Travelling North (19-Jun-1987)
    Ladyhawke (29-Mar-1985) · Imperius
    Murder with Mirrors (20-Feb-1985)
    The Chain (Dec-1984)
    King Lear (26-Jan-1984)
    Reilly: The Ace of Spies (5-Sep-1983)
    The French Lieutenant's Woman (18-Sep-1981) · Dr. Grogan
    The Blue Lagoon (20-Jun-1980)
    The House on Garibaldi Street (28-May-1979) · David Ben-Gurion
    Candleshoe (16-Dec-1977)
    The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (14-Dec-1975)
    Massacre in Rome (4-Oct-1973)
    Ryan's Daughter (9-Nov-1970)
    The Shoes of the Fisherman (14-Nov-1968) · Cardinal Leone
    Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (25-Sep-1968)
    Assignment K (1968)
    A Man For All Seasons (12-Dec-1966) · Cromwell
    Help! (29-Jul-1965)
    The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (26-May-1965)
    King & Country (5-Sep-1964)
    They All Died Laughing (15-Mar-1964)
    Hot Enough for June (10-Mar-1964) · Simoneva
    Doctor in Distress (2-Dec-1963)
    Lisa (May-1962)
    The Day the Earth Caught Fire (23-Nov-1961)
    I Like Money (4-Apr-1961)
    Jazz Boat (Feb-1960) · Inspector
    Scent of Mystery (12-Jan-1960)
    The Mouse That Roared (26-Oct-1959)
    Yesterday's Enemy (11-Sep-1959) · Max
    Web of Evidence (28-Apr-1959)
    A Tale of Two Cities (28-Feb-1958) · Attorney General -- Old Bailey
    Time Without Pity (Mar-1957)
    X the Unknown (5-Nov-1956) · McGill
    All for Mary (21-Dec-1955)

Author of books:
Just Resting (1983, memoir)


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