Leo McKern Movies

Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a...

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept...

A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

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...

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to...

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.

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

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

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...

Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.

Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of...

When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.

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...

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

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

The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

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...

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...

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.