
Acting
Leslie French
Born 1904-04-23 · Bromley, Kent, England, UK
Acting credits
6.5After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
The Living Daylights
1987
7.7As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
The Leopard
1963
7.2Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Death in Venice
1971
6.0Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
The Witches
1967
6.8An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
The Scapegoat
1959
6.7A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
Young Toscanini
1988
7.5The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.
The Dark Angel
1987
6.9Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
This England
1941
7.1The arrival of a mysterious comet heralds impending danger from enemies both old and new. As Ace helps the Doctor defend Earth, she is confronted with a dangerous question..."Doctor Who?"
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1988
7.0After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
The Malpas Mystery
1960
7.2A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Orders to Kill
1958
5.9A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
More Than a Miracle
1967
6.0An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Invitation to the Wedding
1983
6.4A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
The Singer Not the Song
1961
8.5The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Henry IV Part 2
1979
6.0A party of children playing on a moor lose their toy aeroplane which flies through the window of a lonely tower. A multitude of objects found in the town to help rescue the aeroplane prove very difficult to get out to the moor, involving them with barrows, traffic and the local hunt. At last they succeed in entering the tower only to get trapped themselves. Finally Neddy, the donkey, shows them the way out.
The Rescue Squad
1963
NRA docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
1980
6.8a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Peg of Old Drury
1935
8.0Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.
O Mary This London
1994
NREpisode of The Frighteners: It was meant to be a great day out for three veterans and the male nurse. But their uneasy friendship soon became savage enmity.
The Treat
1972
For years ex-ministers of an Eastern European state have met in London to live and dream of past powers and to make decisions about their forgotten country which they know are impossible to carry out. Usually the meetings are uneventful, but one day a young woman bursts in upon them and by her accusations forces this government in exile to make the first real decision which it can effect.
The Flag
1968
A mystery thriller intended for US TV.
The Wallet
1952
8.3Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.
Radio Pirates
1935
7.0A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
The Insect Play
1939