Leo McKern Movies

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

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

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...

A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.

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...

The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.

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.

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

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

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

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

A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.

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....

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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