Leonard Maguire

Acting

Leonard Maguire

Born 1924-05-26 · Manchester, England

Acting credits

The Doctor and the Devils poster
6.2

In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.

The Doctor and the Devils

1985

The Honorary Consul poster
5.8

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

The Honorary Consul

1983

The Awakening poster
5.4

When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

The Awakening

1980

A Dry White Season poster
6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

A Dry White Season

1989

The Girl in a Swing poster
4.9

A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them without destroying their relationship.

The Girl in a Swing

1988

The Law Lord poster
9.0

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard

The Law Lord

1992

Memento Mori poster
6.3

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Memento Mori

1992

The Day Christ Died poster
6.3

A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.

The Day Christ Died

1980

Doctor Who: Full Circle poster
6.6

On the planet Alzarius in the alternate universe of E-Space, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find survivors of a crashed starliner, strange creatures lurking in the marshes and a genetic riddle which stretches back centuries.

Doctor Who: Full Circle

1980

Victory poster
5.2

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.

Victory

1996

New Day poster
NR

Life in the Scottish new town of Glenrothes in the Kingdom of Fife, including a royal visit.

New Day

1959

The Master of Ballantrae poster
6.3

The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.

The Master of Ballantrae

1984

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden poster
7.0

Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Smeddum’ is the story of a matriarch’s attempt to control her brood. ‘Greenden’ is the story of a city woman moving to the country with her husband.

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

1976

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne poster
6.6

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

1987

OcchioPinocchio poster
4.3

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

OcchioPinocchio

1994

No artwork available
NR

A dramatised account of the manufacture of a woollen garment.

The Great Mill Race

1975

No artwork available
NR

Dramatic account of the deputy fuhrer's infamous flight to Scotland during World War II.

Hess

1978

The Shutter Falls poster
9.0

A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.

The Shutter Falls

1987

The Bevellers poster
NR

An ambitious apprentice glassmaker clashes with his new colleagues in a Glasgow workshop.

The Bevellers

1974

A Gift from Nessus poster
NR

Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.

A Gift from Nessus

1980

Glasgow’s Docklands poster
NR

Glasgow's docklands; its workers, transportation and daily life. Filmed by Enrico Cocozza for Educational Films of Scotland.

Glasgow’s Docklands

1956