Leo McKern
- Birthday
- Mar 16, 1920
Bio: Jowly, curmudgeonly Australian actor Leo McKern was seen in over 200 stage productions during his five-decade career. After several comic-villain film assignments, McKern briefly became an icon of the Swingin' '60s with his portrayal of the blustering cult leader in the Beatles' Help (1965). He has since been seen as Cromwell in A Man For All Seasons (1966), as… More Bio: Jowly, curmudgeonly Australian actor Leo McKern was seen in over 200 stage productions during his five-decade career. After several comic-villain film assignments, McKern briefly became an icon of the Swingin' '60s with his portrayal of the blustering cult leader in the Beatles' Help (1965). He has since been seen as Cromwell in A Man For All Seasons (1966), as Professor Moriarty in Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1986), and as a pigheaded ex-communist civil engineer in Travelling North (1986), a role which won him several industry awards. In the late 1970s, Leo McKern scored an enormous hit as the title character in the British TV series Rumpole of the Bailey, which ran off and on from 1977 through 1992. Rumpole has been both bogy and blessing to McKern, as he revealed to Vanity Fair magazine in 1995: "I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt. But if I get an obit in the London Times, they will say, '...of course, known to millions as Rumpole.'" ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Duchess
- 51%
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
- Bishop Maigret
- 63%
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Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995)
- Dad Rudd
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A Foreign Field (1993)
- Cyril
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Robin Hood: The Movie (1991)
- Actor
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Leo McKern Videos
Alice In Wonderland
2 minutes 58 seconds
Ryan's Daughter
29 seconds
Ladyhawke
1 minutes 15 seconds
A Man for All Seasons
1 minutes 1 seconds
The French Lieutenant's Woman
4 minutes 38 seconds
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