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Suffering in his final years from ill health, McKern moved into a nursing home near Bath in Somerset in 2002, where he died a few weeks later, on 23 July, at the age of 82; his body was cremated at Haycombe Cemetery in Bath.
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...
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Leo McKern. Actor: Ladyhawke. Although he sounded very British, Leo McKern was an Australian. By the time he was 15 years old, he had endured an accident that left him without his left eye.
- March 16, 1920
- July 23, 2002
Jul 24, 2002 · Leo McKern, the rubbery-face character actor who won fans for playing the TV role of the tobacco-loving, blustery barrister, "Rumpole of the Bailey," died July 22 in Bath, England, of...
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 Bath,...
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Jul 24, 2002 · Leo McKern, the veteran stage and screen actor who became best known for his television role as the shrewd and exasperating British barrister ''Rumpole of the Bailey,'' died yesterday at a nursing...
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Jul 23, 2002 · Actor Leo McKern, who played the TV barrister Rumpole of the Bailey, has died aged 82. He had been ill for some time and died at a nursing home near Bath, Somerset, where he had lived,...