Leo McKern
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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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.9206 |
| Birthday | 1920-03-16 |
| Place of Birth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Also Known As | Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO, Reginald "Leo" McKern, Reginald McKern, |
1966
A Man for All Seasons
7.321/506
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy de...
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A Man for All Seasons
1985
Ladyhawke
6.997/1274
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his...
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Ladyhawke
1964
Hot Enough for June
5.7/25
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
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Hot Enough for June
1958
A Tale of Two Cities
6.841/22
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
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A Tale of Two Cities
1980
The Blue Lagoon
6.137/2058
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy...
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The Blue Lagoon
1985
Murder with Mirrors
6.458/24
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea...
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Murder with Mirrors
1959
The Mouse That Roared
6.358/141
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign...
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The Mouse That Roared
1956
X: The Unknown
6.1/74
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An A...
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X: The Unknown
1966
Alice in Wonderland
6/47
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th...
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Alice in Wonderland
1961
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
6.799/172
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world aft...
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1995
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
6.75/4
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament
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Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1977
Candleshoe
6.864/122
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal...
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Candleshoe
1965
Help!
6.857/357
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off)....
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Help!
1957
Time Without Pity
6.538/52
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
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Time Without Pity
1973
Massacre in Rome
6.3/30
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of...
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Massacre in Rome
1970
Ryan's Daughter
7.092/180
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
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Ryan's Daughter
1978
The Last Tasmanian
7/4
The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.
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The Last Tasmanian
1961
Mr. Topaze
5.9/9
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing...
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Mr. Topaze
1959
Yesterday's Enemy
7.205/39
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem...
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Yesterday's Enemy
1964
King and Country
7.1/64
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Cap...
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King and Country
1959
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
5.597/31
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1967
Mafia No!
0/0
A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression of his fight against poverty, corruption and violen...
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Mafia No!
1960
Scent of Mystery
6/8
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
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Scent of Mystery
1987
Travelling North
5.778/9
Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion trave...
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Travelling North
1959
Web of Evidence
4.667/6
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Web of Evidence
1965
Tea Party
7/2
Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … . Why does...
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Tea Party
1985
Monsignor Quixote
8.75/2
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r...
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Monsignor Quixote
1962
The Inspector
7.136/11
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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The Inspector
1984
The Chain
7/7
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
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The Chain
1968
Assignment K
6.3/9
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap...
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Assignment K
1960
Jazz Boat
6.4/5
An electrician boasts about being a cat burglar to impress his comrades, but his lie spins out of control when he's sought to participate in a jewel h...
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Jazz Boat
1974
The Sun Is God
0/0
A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.
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The Sun Is God
1975
Rumpole of the Bailey
8/3
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
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Rumpole of the Bailey
1968
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
6/4
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
1992
The Last Romantics
0/0
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
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The Last Romantics
1964
A Jolly Bad Fellow
5/4
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least...
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
1951
Murder in the Cathedral
6.5/8
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to hi...
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Murder in the Cathedral
1964
Children of the Damned
6.138/112
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to ea...
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Children of the Damned
1978
The Nativity
7.5/2
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
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The Nativity
1980
Rumpole's Return
5.818/11
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.
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Rumpole's Return
1973
An Afternoon at the Festival
0/0
Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his broth...
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An Afternoon at the Festival
1981
Country
7.5/2
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the famil...
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Country
1961
Danger! Men Working
0/0
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked forem...
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Danger! Men Working
1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.841/88
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
1983
King Lear
6.65/10
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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King Lear
1964
The Life of Galileo
0/0
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
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The Life of Galileo
1982
The Boxwallah
0/0
Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.
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The Boxwallah
1963
Doctor in Distress
6.3/16
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and som...
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Doctor in Distress
1976
The Omen
7.4/2452
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t kno...
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The Omen
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
5.733/15
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1988
The Master Builder
0/0
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpa...
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The Master Builder
1978
Damien - Omen II
6.415/838
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military sc...
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Damien - Omen II
1975
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
5.98/175
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help sol...
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1979
The House on Garibaldi Street
6.333/3
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
1994
Good King Wenceslas
4.4/5
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
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Good King Wenceslas
1993
A Foreign Field
7/2
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They...
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A Foreign Field
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
6.478/246
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1999
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
6.237/19
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
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Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
1955
All for Mary
6.667/6
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. Wh...
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All for Mary
1968
Nobody Runs Forever
6/24
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But wh...
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Nobody Runs Forever
1968
On the Eve of Publication
7/1
TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summ...
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On the Eve of Publication
1965
The Drinking Party
0/0
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love b...
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The Drinking Party
1964
The Horse Without a Head
6/1
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,...
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The Horse Without a Head
1999
Federation
0/0
An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of the people in six separate colonies in the decades l...
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Federation
1975
The Christmas Messenger
9/1
An angel, present at the birth of Jesus, returns to Earth each year to listen to the Christmas carols and these carols are illustrated in short animat...
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The Christmas Messenger
1996
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
0/0
MI5 operative Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov, who has approached MI5 claiming that he has highly classified informati...
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Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1966
The Death of Socrates
0/0
A modernized depiction. In his last few hours alive, Socrates discusses life, death, and the soul.
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