Leo McKern
Date of birth: 1920-03-16
Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO, Reginald "Leo" McKern, Reginald McKern
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.
Movie Credits
A Man for All Seasons
1966-12-13
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M
Ladyhawke
1985-03-27
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each oth
Hot Enough for June
1964-03-10
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag
A Tale of Two Cities
1958-02-07
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
The Blue Lagoon
1980-07-05
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical isla
Murder with Mirrors
1985-02-20
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to l
The Mouse That Roared
1959-07-17
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare
X: The Unknown
1956-09-21
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and pro
Alice in Wonderland
1966-12-28
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961-11-01
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995-07-20
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spiri
Candleshoe
1977-12-16
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estat
Help!
1965-07-29
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a
Time Without Pity
1957-03-21
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a week
Massacre in Rome
1973-10-04
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military g
Ryan's Daughter
1970-03-19
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affai
The Last Tasmanian
1978-08-17
The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Tr
Mr. Topaze
1961-04-04
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fa
Yesterday's Enemy
1959-09-10
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the sold
King and Country
1964-09-05
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The office
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1959-10-31
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes
Mafia No!
1967-01-01
A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression o
Scent of Mystery
1960-01-12
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
Travelling North
1987-06-19
Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for
Web of Evidence
1959-04-28
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murd
Tea Party
1965-03-25
Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sis
Monsignor Quixote
1985-01-01
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a
The Inspector
1962-05-24
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palesti
The Chain
1984-01-01
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da
Assignment K
1968-02-16
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. S
Jazz Boat
1960-06-01
A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.
The Sun Is God
1974-01-01
A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975-12-16
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day h
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
1968-10-30
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
The Last Romantics
1992-03-29
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and
A Jolly Bad Fellow
1964-03-15
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas t
Murder in the Cathedral
1951-09-10
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles
Children of the Damned
1964-01-10
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but id
The Nativity
1978-12-17
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
Rumpole's Return
1980-12-30
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-esta
An Afternoon at the Festival
1973-05-06
Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female st
Country
1981-10-20
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event,
Danger! Men Working
1961-05-07
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As th
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968-11-14
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpecte
King Lear
1983-04-03
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his
The Life of Galileo
1964-04-29
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the eart
The Boxwallah
1982-07-31
Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of t
Doctor in Distress
1963-07-30
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lanc
The Omen
1976-06-25
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965-05-26
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of societ
The Master Builder
1988-05-15
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a succe
Damien - Omen II
1978-06-09
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his we
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975-12-14
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting De
The House on Garibaldi Street
1979-05-28
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they
Good King Wenceslas
1994-11-26
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
A Foreign Field
1993-09-10
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981-08-28
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1999-03-17
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the islan
All for Mary
1955-12-21
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set
Nobody Runs Forever
1968-08-22
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level
On the Eve of Publication
1968-11-27
TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion
The Drinking Party
1965-11-14
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. E
The Horse Without a Head
1964-03-09
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up
Federation
1999-01-01
An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of th