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- Birth nameDesmond Arthur Peter Leslie
- Desmond Leslie was born on June 29, 1921 in Castle Leslie, Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was a writer and composer, known for Yellow Submarine (1968), Stranger at My Door (1950) and Stranger from Venus (1954). He was married to Jennifer Helen Strong and Agnes Bernelle. He died on February 24, 2001 in Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- SpousesJennifer Helen Strong(1970 - ?) (2 children)Agnes Bernelle(August 18, 1945 - 1969) (divorced, 3 children)
- Son of the late Shane Leslie, and brother of the late Anita Leslie and Sir John Norman Ide Leslie. Second cousin of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Married twice, and survived by his second wife and his 6 children from both marriages.
- His youngest child is the screenwriter Camilla Leslie, writer of Un bébé à tout prix (2008).
- On a live television broadcast in 1962 (on BBCTV's That Was the Week That Was (1962)), he punched the drama critic Bernard Levin because the latter had given a bad review to his wife, Agnes Bernelle. Levin refused to press charges against him, and the producer of the show, Ned Sherrin, claimed, years later, that he had subsequently seen the two men having a convivial drink together.
- Grandson via his son Christopher is Luke Leslie.
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