In the minds of huge television audiences across the globe, Leo McKern will forever be associated with the role of the cigar-puffing, poetry-spouting, Rumpole of the Bailey. As Rumpole, McKern became ...

A great man. I enjoyed watching him no matter the genre for I knew an extraordinary performance was to be seen. I will miss his silent thoughts of she who must be obeyed. May God receive you with open ...

LONDON — Veteran character actor Leo McKern, best known internationally as the star of the long-running BBC TV series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” died at a nursing home near Bath in Somerset, England ...

(Reuters) - Footage of The Beatles on the set of their 1965 film "Help!" is being offered for sale after 50 years if being hidden in storage. The film was shot by Australian-born actor Leo McKern, who ...

Thirty years after Leo McKern vacated the role, it’s time to meet the new Number Two. AMC is bringing back Patrick McGoohan’s classic sixties paranoiafest The Prisoner with Jim “Passion of the Christ” ...

LONDON -- Leo McKern, 82, the Australian actor who gained fame as a curmudgeonly barrister in "Rumpole of the Bailey," died July 23 at a nursing home near his home in Bath in western England. The ...