- Nascido(a) em
- Falecido(a) em23 de julho de 2002 · Bath, Somerset, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (depois de uma longa doença)
- Nome de nascimentoReginald McKern
- Altura1,68 m
- Leo McKern nasceu o 16 de março de 1920 em Sydney, Nova Gales do Sul, Austrália. Era ator e diretor e foi conhecido pelo seu trabalho em O Feitiço de Áquila (1985), A Lagoa Azul (1980) e O Homem que Não Vendeu sua Alma (1966). Foi casado com Jane Holland. Morreu o 23 de julho de 2002 em Bath, Somerset, Inglaterra.
- CônjugeJane Holland(1946 - 23 de julho de 2002) (sua morte, 2 crianças)
- CriançasHarriet McKern
- PaisNorman Walton McKernVera McKern
- Gravelly voice
- He had a glass left eye as a result of an accident at the age of 15. He used to play "practical eye jokes" on the set of his famous TV series Rumpole of the Bailey (1978).
- Served as a corporal in the Royal Engineering Corps in Victoria during the Second World War.
- He was nearly killed during the filming of the storm sequence in A Filha de Ryan (1970), something he was inclined to blame on the negligence of director David Lean. The innumerable delays during the filming drove him to distraction, and, once his role was completed, he had what he later called a nervous breakdown. He seriously contemplated giving up acting altogether and made no films for about three years.
- Leo McKern went to England in 1946, spending three years with the Old Vic and two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- He was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the performing arts.
- After a year of shooting "Ryan's Daughter": "I don't like to be paid £500 a week for sitting down and playing Scrabble."
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