Leo McKern Movies

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at...

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.

A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the...

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being...

Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion...

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter....

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked...

An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...

Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … ....

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their...

TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a...