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Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (1987) Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.
Overview. Born. March 16, 1920 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died. July 23, 2002 · Bath, Somerset, England, UK (following a long illness) Birth name. Reginald McKern. Height. 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) Mini Bio. Although he sounded very British, Leo McKern was an Australian.
- March 16, 1920
- July 23, 2002
Leo McKern, the Australian-born actor who became famous for the most English of roles in Rumpole of the Bailey, has died aged 82. He had been ill for some time and died at a nursing home near his...
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Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.
Jul 24, 2002 · Leo McKern, a distinguished character actor who was indelibly identified with the short, round and irascible English barrister of television’s “Rumpole of the Bailey” series, died Tuesday in...
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Jul 24, 2002 · Wed 24 Jul 2002 05.49 EDT. Leo McKern, who was told as a young man that his glass eye and ugly face left him no chance as an actor, died yesterday after nearly 50 years of success, acclaim...
Jul 23, 2002 · Leo McKern, who has died aged 82, was best known and admired for his most famous character the crumpled, combative defence barrister Rumpole of the Bailey in the television series by John...
