Leo McKernFilmography

Dad and Dave on Our Selection

Synopsis: This Australian period comedy set at the turn-of-the-century, is based on the anecdotal books of Steele Rudd (the pen name for author Arthur Hoey) that described life on a rural "selection" (a small farm) in Queensland. Like the original written tales, the film is anecdotal and chronicles events Read More

Good King Wenceslas

Synopsis: Virtue battles treachery in this made-for-TV peroid drama. Prince Wenceslas (Jonathan Brandis) is the seventeen-year-old heir to the Czech crown, who has been pledged to marry the lovely Johanna (Charlotte Chatton), whose father, Duke Phillip (Leo McKern), is a man of no small power and wealth. Read More

A Foreign Field

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) have come back to Normandy together to revisit the site of their most harrowing wartime experiences, to look up the gravesite of a fallen comrade, and to Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 07

Actors: Leo McKern, Marion Mathie, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge, Peter Blythe

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of the seriocomic British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey offers the usual quota of six hour-long episodes, originally seen in the U.K. from October 29 through December 3, 1992, all starring Leo McKern as the immensely sloppy and irrefutably brilliant barrister Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 06

Actors: Leo McKern, Marion Mathie, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge, Peter Blythe

Synopsis: After an absence of two years, Rumpole of the Bailey returned to the British airwaves with a sixth season of six new episodes, initially telecast from from October 28 through December 2 1991. The delightfully dishevelled barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) starts things rolling by defending a Read More

Monsignor Quixote

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Graham Greene, Alec Guinness stars as the title character, a descendent of Don Quixote. After he is appointed monsignor, he sets off with a leftist politician (played by Leo McKern) on an adventure reminiscent of the Cervantes novel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prisoner: Video Companion

Synopsis: This is a video guide to the cult television show The Prisoner. Filmed in England, the series aired in 1968-1969, in 17 episodes, and is considered by many to be the best series ever to be shown on the medium of television. Patrick McGoohan was the show's creator and star. The story line follows a Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole's Return

Synopsis: Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole's Return is a feature film based on the British television series about a middle-aged barrister who is intent on finding justice. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

Actors: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, John Woodnut, Eric Porter, Roger Hammond

Synopsis: In "The Red-Headed League," an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle produced in the Britain for Granada), Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) reprises his excellent portrayal of the famed detective Read More

Travelling North

Actors: Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Graham Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Michelle Fawdon

Synopsis: Director Carl Schultz and screenwriter David Williamson's character study of an aging Australian man's second marriage boasts a robust performance by Leo McKern. McKern plays Frank, a man in his seventies, who used to be something of a firecracker, but who now, his best days behind him, prefers to Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 05

Actors: Leo McKern, Marion Mathie, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge, Peter Blythe

Synopsis: The fifth season of the iconoclastic British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey delivers six fresh new episodes, originally telecast over ITV1 from November 23 through December 28, 1988. In the opening episode "Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation" it is a libel case that keeps the irascible Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 04

Actors: Leo McKern, Marion Mathie, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge, Peter Blythe

Synopsis: A dry spell of nearly four years separated the third and fourth seasons of the internationally popular British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey. Not surprisingly, fans rejoiced when the series finally returned on January 19, 1987, with six new hour-long episodes in the docket. Leo McKern, as Read More

The Chain

Actors: Herbert Norville, Denis Lawson, Rita Wolf, Maurice Denham, Nigel Hawthorne, Billie Whitelaw, Leo McKern, Warren Mitchell, David Troughton, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters, another moves in, and so it goes all the way up to the lavish mansioned owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle starts all over again when McKern, wishing to be Read More

Murder With Mirrors

Actors: Dorothy Tutin, John Mills, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Helen Hayes makes her second TV appearance as Agatha Christie's female sleuth Miss Marple in Murder with Mirrors. Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie's stepson has been killed, and she fears that his won't be the Read More

Ladyhawke

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood

Synopsis: In medieval France, knight Rutger Hauer and lady fair Michelle Pfeiffer both run afoul of evil-bishop John Wood. Through the auspices of bishop's confessor Leo McKern, Hauer and Pfeiffer are placed under a curse. During the night, Hauer takes the form of a wolf, while Pfeiffer assumes the form of Read More

King Lear

Actors: Diana Rigg, Dorothy Tutin, Laurence Olivier, Anna Calder-Marshall

Synopsis: Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in the title role and a stellar cast to support him, in the tale of a king torn apart by the ambition and treachery within his family and by his own pride. ~ Mark Hockley, All Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 03

Actors: Leo McKern, Peggy Bates-Thorpe, Peter Bowles, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge

Synopsis: After a three-year hiatus, the internationally popular British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey returns for a third season of six hour-long episodes, which originally aired in the U.K. from October 11 through November 15, 1983. Leo McKern likewise returns as the equisitely slovenly barrister Read More

Reilly: The Ace of Spies

Synopsis: Sam Neill stars as British super spy Sidney Reilly, the United Kingdom's top espionage agent during the Russian Revolution who found himself serving many sides in the line of duty, in this collection of the complete run of the acclaimed British television series Reilly: Ace Of Spies. This set Read More

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz Read More

The Blue Lagoon

Actors: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson

Synopsis: This 1980 version of the oft-filmed Henry Devere Stackpoole novel The Blue Lagoon was the first to be stamped with an "R" rating. The basic story remains unchanged. Two very small children, a boy and a girl, are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. They are cared for by fellow castaway Leo Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 02

Actors: Leo McKern, Peggy Bates-Thorpe, Peter Bowles, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge

Synopsis: Season Two of the British legal comedy-drama series Rumpole of the Bailey serves up six new episodes, initially telecast by ITV1 from May 29 through July 3, 1979. First on the docket is "Rumpole and the Man of God", in which gloriously irreverent barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) defends a Read More

The House on Garibaldi Street

Actors: Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-TV spy movie chronicles the 1960 capture of a Nazi in South America. When Israeli agents find out that Nazi Adolph Eichmann survived the war and is living in Argentina, they hatch a plan to kidnap him and bring him to trial for his crimes. Martin Balsam Read More

The Last Tasmanian

Actors: Jim Allen

Synopsis: This detailed documentary traces the extermination of the Tasmanian aborigines through the greed and superior weapons of British colonialists. Anthropologist Dr. Rhys Jones provides newly discovered information about the people, shedding insight on their lives and culture. The aborigines were Read More

Damien: Omen II

Actors: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Lucas Donat

Synopsis: Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an ancient crypt that depicts the face of the Antichrist -- that of Damien Thorn (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), recently orphaned scion of a wealthy industrialist. Before they can Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: Season 01

Actors: Leo McKern, Peggy Bates-Thorpe, Peter Bowles, Julian Curry, Patricia Hodge

Synopsis: Three years after the property was introduced as a one-shot on BBC's Play for Today, the seriocomic British legal series Rumpole of the Bailey officially launched its first season of six weekly episodes on April 3, 1978. In the opener "Rumpole and the Younger Generation", iconoclastic barrister Read More

The Nativity

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: The Nativity is just what it says it is. This low-key retelling of the Biblical story of the birth of Christ stars Madeline Stowe as Mary and John V. Shea as Joseph. The network publicists assured the viewers that there would be as much emphasis on the "human love story" as the Birth itself. Also Read More

Candleshoe

Actors: David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan

Synopsis: Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if she cannot raise the money needed to pay taxes on the estate, she and the large crew of orphans she has taken in will be thrown out. Legend has it that one of her ancestors, a Read More

The Omen

Actors: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: Satan's son has arrived on Earth and He's not about to let human parents get in the way. When his wife Katherine's (Lee Remick) pregnancy ends in a stillbirth in a Rome hospital, U.S. diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) substitutes another baby, whose mother died. Little Damien (Harvey Stephens) Read More

Rumpole of the Bailey: The Lost Episode

Synopsis: Rumpole of the Bailey: The Lost Episode first aired in 1975 as part of the BBC anthology series Play for Today. In 2004, it was released on home video by Acorn Media with the title "Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt." Barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) defends a young black man who has been Read More

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Actors: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Leo McKern

Synopsis: Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes, the older bother of famous detective Sherlock Holmes. For years, Sigerson has been living in his little brother's shadow, and he is convinced that he must constantly prove his Read More

Rappresaglia

Actors: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: On March 24, 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, one of the most infamous atrocities of World War II occurred -- the mass execution of 330 Italians in retaliation for the deaths of 33 Germans. The book Death in Rome contends that Pope Pius XII knew of the German plan but did nothing to stop Read More

Ryan's Daughter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, John Mills

Synopsis: The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been "When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular." Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to Robert Bolt) stars as Rosy, the daughter of Irish pub keeper Tom Ryan Read More

The High Commissioner

Actors: Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Camilla Sparv, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: A police investigator is forced to rely on the man he's been instructed to apprehend in this cold war thriller. Sir James Quentin (Christopher Plummer) is a high level negotiator with the British government who is approached by Scobie Malone (Rod Taylor), an Australian detective who has been Read More

The Prisoner: Once upon a Time

Actors: Leo McKern

Synopsis: Written and directed by series star Patrick McGoohan, "Once Upon a Time" was the first of two episodes of The Prisoner designed to "explain" (more or less) several of the questions posed by the previous episodes, and to bring the saga to a conclusion --- albeit not a logical one. Leo McKern Read More

The Shoes of the Fisherman

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier Read More

Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher

Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier

Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More

The Prisoner: Fallout

Actors: Leo McKern

Synopsis: Perhaps one of the most fascinating and maddening 48 minutes ever committed to television broadcast, "Fall Out" was the 17th and final episode of the British sci-fi/fantasy series The Prisoner. Having survived the ordeal of Degree Absolute in the previous episode "Once Upon a Time", Number Six is Read More

The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben

Actors: Leo McKern, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: In this episode of the cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner, Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) appears to be developing an artistic side when he begins work on a series of sculptures for an art exhibit. What his captors do not realize is that they can be assembled into a boat, and Number 6 uses them to Read More

Assignment K

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This lugubrious spy yarn finds Philip Scott (Stephen Boyd) posing as a toy manufacturer to hide his real purpose in life. He and his faithful operative Harris (Michael Redgrave) battle the evil Smith (Leo McKern) in Austria, England and West Germany. Toni Peters (Camilla Sparv) is the love Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Anne-Marie Mallik

Synopsis: You've seen the Disney classic, now experience the tale of Alice in Wonderland as never before in this live-action adaptation of the timeless tale from the BBC and director Jonathan Miller. Capturing all of the menace and wonder of Lewis Carroll's age-old classic while injecting the story with a Read More

A Man for All Seasons

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage role as Sir Thomas More. The crux of the film is the staunchly Catholic More's refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw)'s break from the Read More

Help!

Actors: The Beatles, Leo McKern

Synopsis: In their second feature with director Richard Lester, who oversaw the massive hit A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles again aim for a mix of goofy comedy and sterling pop music. There is slightly more of a plot this time, though it is a patently ridiculous one: a sacred ruby ring comes into Ringo's Read More

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Actors: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Leo McKern, Lilli Palmer, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This rambunctious filmization of Daniel Defoe's "naughty" novel stars Novak as a poverty-stricken 18th century damsel who rises to the top of society surrendering her virtue--time Read More

A Jolly Bad Fellow

Actors: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Maxine Audley, Duncan MacRae, Dennis Price

Synopsis: They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of Read More

King and Country

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, James Villiers

Synopsis: King and Country was adapted by Evan Jones from John Wilson's play Hamp. Misfit World War I British soldier Tom Courtenay, on trial for desertion, is defended by martinet officer Dirk Bogarde. Disgusted by the assignment, Bogarde wearily asks the dullwitted Courtenay the reasons for his actions. Read More

The Horse Without a Head

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Paris, Disney's Horse Without a Head stars Jean-Pierre Aumont as police-inspector Sinet. The inspector's well-ordered existence is turned upside down by a group of youngsters who insist upon racing their headless toy horse up and down the streets of Paris. Villainous Herbert Lom Read More

Doctor in Distress

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Samantha Eggar, Barbara Murray, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: After several years' absence, Dirk Bogarde returns to the popular British "Doctor" film series in Doctor in Distress. Where once Bogarde's Dr. Simon Sparrow was naive and wide-eyed, he is a bit more urbane in this edition. He even manages to offer romantic advice to his old mentor/nemesis Sir Read More

Agent 8 3/4

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley, Leo McKern, Roger Delgado

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author, Bogarde is sent to Czechoslovakia by the British government as an unofficial "goodwill ambassador" to an industrial firm. It soon dawns upon him that his real assignment is to Read More

The Inspector

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: The British The Inspector was released in the U.S. as Lisa. Dolores Hart plays Lisa Held, a Dutch Jewish girl who has survived the horror of Auschwitz. Anxious to leave Holland for Israel, Lisa enlists the aid of Dutch police inspector Stephen Boyd. He does all he can to help Lisa, hoping in this Read More

I Like Money

Actors: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Mr. Topaze was based on a play by Marcel Pagnol, previously filmed twice before with John Barrymore and Fernandel. Peter Sellers stars as a French college professor, known far and wide for his integrity. He refuses to improve a grade on the paper of one student, whose influential father sees to it Read More

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Actors: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Bernard Braden, Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis: Despite its come-on title, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an intelligent, disturbing piece of speculative fiction. Through the eyes of British reporter Peter Stenning (Edward Judd), we learn that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have simultaneously set off nuclear explosions to test their Read More

Jazz Boat

Actors: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge, Bernie Winters

Synopsis: This is a crime-comedy-musical romance by director Ken Hughes that has an identity problem. Bert (Anthony Newley) is an electrician who gives the wrong people a "song and dance" about his supposed expertise as a cat burglar and now he has to pay the piper. The gang of young thieves brings him into Read More

Scent of Mystery

Actors: Denholm Elliott, Liam Redmond, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Peter Arne, Beverly Bentley

Synopsis: Produced by Mike Todd Jr., Scent of Mystery was a misguided attempt to introduce a new gimmick to motion pictures. The plot involved the apparent murder of a mystery woman (Beverly Bentley, at one time the wife of writer Norman Mailer) and the disappearance of several valuables. Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre Read More

The Mouse That Roared

Actors: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Leo McKern, Timothy Bateson

Synopsis: The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United Read More

Web of Evidence

Actors: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee, Jean Kent

Synopsis: Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose British father has supposedly been dead for years. On a visit to London, Johnson discovers that his father is very much alive, serving a life sentence for murder. Johnson Read More

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

Yesterday's Enemy

Actors: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley

Synopsis: The scene is Burma during World War II. A small British brigade led by Stanley Baker comes upon a Burmese village controlled by the Japanese. The brigade wipes out the enemy, whereupon Baker discovers that the late Japanese commandant has a coded map secreted on his person. When a Burmese prisoner Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Marie Versini, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke, the writer of such fifties British comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob and Passport to Pimlico, dips his pen into a more stately inkwell in this stilted adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dirk Bogarde takes the lead role of worn-down Read More

Chain of Events

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: A little white lie sets off a harrowing series of increasingly catastrophic events in this thriller. The trouble begins when a bank clerk tells a fib to avoid paying his bus fare. The lie quickly becomes the basis for extortion and finally murder. The story is based on a radio play written by Read More

Time Without Pity

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted director was permitted to use his own name on a film. This British-made suspense film was based on a play by Emlyn Williams. Michael Redgrave stars an anguished father whose son (Alec McCowan Read More

X the Unknown

Actors: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Marianne Brauns, William Lucas, Peter Hammond

Synopsis: X the Unknown is a well-crafted imitation of the Quatermass British sci-fi pictures of the 1950s. A group of soldiers on maneuvers in Scotland stumble across a gravel pit which emanates an unusual amount of radiation. Several deaths occur before the radioactive material is mysteriously stolen. Read More

All for Mary

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson, David Hurst

Synopsis: Jill Day plays Mary in this frolicksome British comedy. While on vacation in Switzerland, Mary finds herself the object of several tourists' affection. Two of the men, Nigel Patrick and David Tomlinson, are British. The third, Leo McKern, is a wealthy, boorish Greek. Throughout the film, the Read More

Robin Hood: The Movie

Synopsis: The exploits of Robin Hood, as gleaned and combined from the classic British television series, are presented in this adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder in the Cathedral

Actors: Fr. John Groser, Alexander Gauge, David Ward, George Woodbridge, Basil Burton

Synopsis: T.S. Eliot's readers-theatre verse piece Murder in the Cathedral was never truly designed to be a fully staged play, but try telling that to the many amateur groups who've produced it in the past five decades. This 1952 film adaptation valiantly attempts to open up the piece to full cinematic Read More