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Leo McKern - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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March 16, 1920 - July 23, 2002 - Australian-British theater, film and television actor.
Studied at Sydney Technical High School. At the age of 15, as a result of an accident, he lost his left eye. His first job was as an assistant engineer. During World War II he served in the Australian Army. First appeared on the theater stage in Sydney in 1944.
McKern, along with his beloved actress Jane Holland, moved to the UK, where they married in 1946. Despite his flaws such as his glass eye and Australian accent, a number of theaters became interested in him, and soon he was already playing at London's Old Vic and Shakespeare Memorial Theater (now the Royal Shakespeare Theater) in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He played a forester in Love's Labour's Lost (1949, Old Vic) and Iago in Othello (1952). He appeared as a common man in Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons", staged in the West End in 1960, but already in the Broadway production he played Thomas Cromwell, the prosecutor at the trial of Thomas More, later reprising this role in the movie. Of the most famous of his roles can be noted Suttle from the play "Alchemist" by Ben Johnson (1962). He last appeared on stage in 2000.
McKern made his film debut in 1951 with Murder in the Cathedral. Among his most famous films are "The Smell of Mystery" (1960), "Help!" (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Fisherman's Shoes (1968, Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Council of Film Critics), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Murder in Rome (1973) , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes's Dodgy Brother (1975, Professor Moriarty), The Omen (1976), The Omen 2: Damien (1978), The Blue Lagoon (1980), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Lady Hawk "(1984) and" Foreign Field "(1990). His most recent film work was as Maigret's father in Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999).
