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Acting

Leo McKern

Career: Active from 1951 to 1999, busiest in 1964 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 32
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Monsignor Quixote
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 47 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Leo McKern Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0
Adrenaline
3.9, average 4.8
Uncanny
1.8, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 6
Character-Driven 3
Social Commentary 3
Quirky Characters 2
Legal Drama 2
Nostalgic 2
World War II 2
Intriguing Plot 2
Cozy Mystery 2
Historical Setting 2
Bleak 2
Melancholy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

90

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

8 titles · average score 68

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

66

as Bishop Maigret

Federation

as Henry Parkes

Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

as Alexander Petrov

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

64

as Dad Rudd

The Beatles Anthology

83

TV show · as Clang (archive footage)

Good King Wenceslas

53

as Duke Phillio

A Foreign Field

73

as Cyril

The Last Romantics

as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

1980s

16 titles · average score 66

Travelling North

63

as Frank

Ladyhawke

67

as Father Imperius

Monsignor Quixote

83

as Sancho Zancas

Murder with Mirrors

56

as Insp. Curry

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Chain

69

as Thomas

King Lear

68

as Gloucester

Reilly: Ace of Spies

76

TV show · as Zaharov

Country

as Sir Frederick Carlion

The French Lieutenant's Woman

71

as Dr. Grogan

The Blue Lagoon

39

as Paddy Button

Rumpole's Return

69

as Horace Rumpole

1970s

20 titles · average score 66

The House on Garibaldi Street

64

as David Ben-Gurion

The Last Tasmanian

as Narrator (voice)

Candleshoe

70

as Bundage

The Omen

72

as Carl Bugenhagen (uncredited)

Rumpole of the Bailey

77

TV show · as Horace Rumpole

Rumpole of the Bailey

as Horace Rumpole

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

59

as Moriarty

Space: 1999

73

TV show · as Companion

Massacre in Rome

56

as Gen. Kurt Maelzer

Great Performances

70

TV show · as Sancho Zancas

Ryan's Daughter

59

as Thomas Ryan

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Sir Frederic Carlion / Horace Rumpole

1960s

33 titles · average score 64

The Shoes of the Fisherman

57

as Cardinal Leone

On the Eve of Publication

as Robert Kelvin

The Prisoner

92

TV show · as Former Number Two

A Man for All Seasons

79

as Thomas Cromwell

Help!

74

as Clang

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

52

as Gauner Squint

King and Country

82

as Capt. O'Sullivan

A Jolly Bad Fellow

as Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery

The Horse Without a Head

as Roublot

Hot Enough for June

52

as Simoneva

The Inspector

69

as Brandt

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

79

as Bill Maguire

1950s

13 titles · average score 65

Yesterday's Enemy

75

as Max

The Mouse That Roared

79

as Benter

Web of Evidence

55

as McEvoy

Chain of Events

64

Writer

Time Without Pity

68

as Robert Stanford

X: The Unknown

63

as Inspector McGill

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Jerry McMahon / Sam Arlen

The Adventures of Robin Hood

46

TV show · as Herbert of Doncaster

All for Mary

as Gaston Nikopopoulos

The Wonderful World of Disney

81

TV show · as Roublot

Murder in the Cathedral

as Third Knight

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Kostylyov, Owner of the Dosshouse / Zdarov