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Edward "Monks" Leeford is a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He is actually the criminally-inclined half-brother of Oliver Twist, but he hides his identity. Monks's parents separated when he was a child, and his father had a sexual and romantic relationship with a young woman, Agnes Fleming. This resulted in Agnes's pregnancy. She died in childbirth after giving birth to the baby that would be named Oliver Twist.Played by the actors
Filmography of Edward "Monks" Leeford (3 films)
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, 6h26Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Lindsay, Keira Knightley, Michael Kitchen, Andy Serkis, Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong
Rating73%
The first episode revolved around Oliver's parents (Agnes Fleming and Edwin Leeford) as they struggled to fight their love for each other. Edwin struggled with his estranged wife Elizabeth Leeford, mother of his son Edward Leeford (later also "Monks"), and Agnes struggled with her family's life. When it came to them both being together, Elizabeth murdered Edwin and planned on murdering Agnes. She made Monks kill her, but Agnes ran away; her sister Rose (Keira Knightley) witnessed this and was left traumatized. Agnes was pregnant with Oliver when she ran away. She ran into the main streets of London and collapsed; she was then taken into the workhouse where she gave birth, and she died shortly after.
Oliver Twist (1948)
, 1h56Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime, Melodrama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan
Rating77%
A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and matron Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws; Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, I want some more").
Oliver Twist (1922)
, 1h14Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Lon Chaney, James A. Marcus, Jackie Coogan, Aggie Herring, Lionel Belmore, Lewis Sargent
Rating65%
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver's family history waiting to come to light.