Leslie Randall

Acting

Leslie Randall

Born 1924-10-19 · South Shields, County Durham (now South Shields, Tyne & Wear), England, UK

Leslie Randall is a film and television actor who has worked in both Britain and America. His wife was Joan Reynolds, whom he met when they were both in repertory theatre in Darlington after the war. They married in 1951 and were the stars of ITV's first ever sitcom, Joan and Leslie. They had two children together and divorced in 1978. Randall worked in the UK, the US and Australia, one of his most famous roles is as the comedian Danny 'It's All Happening' Boon in 1963's Billy Liar.

Acting credits

Last Chance Harvey poster
6.3

In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.

Last Chance Harvey

2008

Goal! poster
6.8

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

Goal!

2005

Goal II: Living the Dream poster
6.0

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.

Goal II: Living the Dream

2007

Billy Liar poster
6.8

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.

Billy Liar

1963

The Garden poster
5.7

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.

The Garden

1990

The Red Peppers poster
NR

Set in 1936 during the dying days of music hall, "The Red Peppers' is the poignant story of George and Lily Pepper, a husband and wife comedy double act whose failing marriage is all but over. When a backstage row develops one night it unearths painful truths, which prove to have disastrous consequences

The Red Peppers

2001

Just Joe poster
10.0

A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.

Just Joe

1960