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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.
Leo McKern was an Australian actor who became a British star on stage and screen. He played diverse roles, from Shakespearean characters to sci-fi villains, but was best known as the crusty barrister Horace Rumpole in the TV series of the same name.
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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...
- Louise Jury
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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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.
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 natural...
Jul 24, 2002 · Veteran actor Leo McKern, most famous for his roles as the curmudgeonly barrister Rumpole in the Rumpole of the Bailey television series, died yesterday.