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Leslie French is a Actor British born on 23 april 1904 at Bromley (United-kingdom)

Leslie French

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 april 1904 at Bromley (United-kingdom)
Death 21 january 1999 (at 94 years) at Ewell (United-kingdom)

Leslie Richard French (23 April 1904 – 21 January 1999) was a British actor of stage and screen.

French was primarily a theatre actor, as well as a director, singer and dancer, with a varied career that included the classics, musical revue, pantomime and ballet. He became most associated with the role of Ariel in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and over the years he essayed many of Shakespeare's spirits and clowns, such as Puck, Feste and Touchstone.

Usually with

Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
(4 films)
Franco Rossi
Franco Rossi
(2 films)
Dino De Laurentiis
Dino De Laurentiis
(2 films)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
(2 films)
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leslie French (15 films)

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The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective (2004)

Directed by Jon Amiel, Keith Gordon
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Michael Gambon, Jim Carter, Robin Wright, David Dorfman, Mel Gibson
Rating53% 2.6988952.6988952.6988952.6988952.698895
Dan Dark, écrivain rongé par une lente maladie dégénérative du cerveau, ne peut trouver la guérison qu'en s'immergeant dans un monde onirique qu'il a créé pour les besoins de l'un de ses ouvrages. Toutefois ce monde onirique s'insinue au fil du temps dans le monde réel.
Young Toscanini
Young Toscanini (1988)
, 1h49
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward, Philippe Noiret, Franco Nero, John Rhys-Davies
Rating60% 3.048343.048343.048343.048343.04834
1886. Le jeune Arturo Toscanini, violoncelliste de Parme, auditionne à la Scala de Milan. Mais le jury ne s'intéresse guère à son talent et le renvoie. Furieux, Toscanini est approché par un impresario témoin de l'altercation, Claudio Rossi, qui lui propose de venir au Brésil afin de participer à la première locale de l'opéra Aïda. Egalement pianiste de formation, Toscanini connaît déjà un immense répertoire et accompagne les chanteurs de la troupe au piano. Sur le bateau, après avoir pris froid lors d'une tempête, il fait la connaissance de Sœur Margherita, qui fait partie d'une mission de religieuses en partance pour l'Amérique latine.
The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights (1987)
, 2h11
Directed by John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Spy films, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Desmond Llewelyn, Art Malik, John Rhys-Davies
Roles Lavatory Attendant
Rating66% 3.348333.348333.348333.348333.34833
James Bond—Agent 007—is assigned to aid the defection of a KGB officer, General Georgi Koskov, covering his escape from a concert hall in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia during the orchestra's intermission. During the mission, Bond notices that the KGB sniper assigned to prevent Koskov's escape is a female cellist from the orchestra. Disobeying his orders to kill the sniper, he instead shoots the rifle from her hands, then uses the Trans-Siberian Pipeline to smuggle Koskov across the border into Austria and then on to Britain.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice (1971)
, 2h10
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Films about viral outbreaks, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Björn Andrésen
Roles Travel Agent
Rating73% 3.6983053.6983053.6983053.6983053.698305
The protagonist, 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.
The Witches
The Witches (1967)
, 1h50
Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Alberto Sordi, Massimo Girotti, Totò, Clint Eastwood
Roles Industrialist (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Rating60% 3.002143.002143.002143.002143.00214
The film has a strong mold satirical denounces the status of women in the sixties in Italy. Through five episodes, it is the manner in which it is considered to be the woman in modern society, that is, as a real witch.
The Witches
The Witches (1967)
, 31minutes
Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Anthology film, Romance
Actors Annie Girardot, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Clint Eastwood
Roles Industrialist (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Rating60% 3.002143.002143.002143.002143.00214
Un vieil homme, accompagné de son grand nigaud de fils, est agenouillé devant la tombe de son épouse, morte après avoir mangé des champignons empoisonnés. Aussitôt, ils se mettent à la recherche d'une femme pour remplacer cette mère et épouse. Avant tout, ils se mettent d'accord pour qu'elle ne soit pas rousse! Au bout d'un an, ils finissent par trouver une très jolie jeune femme, sourde et muette. Pour réunir plus d'argent et améliorer leur habitation (une pauvre baraque en zone industrielle), ils organisent un faux suicide de la jeune épousée, du sommet du Colisée. Malheureusement, celle-ci glisse sur une peau de banane et meurt réellement.
More Than a Miracle
More Than a Miracle (1967)
, 1h44
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Omar Sharif, Sophia Loren, Georges Wilson, Leslie French, Dolores del Río, Marina Malfatti
Roles Giuseppe da Copertino
Rating59% 2.99952.99952.99952.99952.9995
The film recounts the misadventures of a beautiful and temperamental Neapolitan village girl Isabella (Sophia Loren) and an ill-tempered Spanish prince, Rodrigo (Omar Sharif). The prince was a risk taker, avoiding his parents' wishes for him to marry. One day while riding a horse in the countryside, he becomes distracted by a noise and sees someone flying across the sky! This person predicts his future and gives him a donkey to take him in the right direction if he pats its back and feeds him flour. On the way back, he meets Isabella. He is very much attracted to her, but she rejects him.
The Leopard
The Leopard (1963)
, 2h33
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Serge Reggiani, Terence Hill, Paolo Stoppa
Roles Cavalier Chevalley
Rating78% 3.9468153.9468153.9468153.9468153.946815
Sicily, 1860. The corpse of a Royalist soldier is found in the garden of the villa of Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina (the gardener quips that these soldiers stink as much in death as they do in life). As the Prince's large family enjoys the customary comforts and privileges of an ancient and noble name, including private services with their Jesuit priest, war has broken out between the King's army and the insurgent volunteer redshirts of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Among the rebels is the Prince's remarkably handsome and dashing nephew, Tancredi, with whose romantic politics the Prince shares some whimsical sympathy (and a good deal of material support—Tancredi is a notorious spendthrift).
The Singer Not the Song
The Singer Not the Song (1961)
, 2h12
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylène Demongeot, Laurence Naismith, John Bentley, Leslie French
Roles Father Gomez
Rating62% 3.1019853.1019853.1019853.1019853.101985
A priest, Father Michael Keogh (John Mills), is sent by Rome to Quantana, a remote Mexican town which is under the control of a ruthless bandito, Anacleto Komachi (Dirk Bogarde). Anacleto is educated and intelligent, and has a "down" on the Church, but he finds in Keogh a man he strangely admires and with whom he can have intelligent conversation. However, he does not allow this to distract him from his goal: to expunge the priest from his fiefdom at any cost.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat (1959)
, 1h31
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Keen
Roles Lacoste
Rating67% 3.3975953.3975953.3975953.3975953.397595
John Barratt (Alec Guinness), a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British university, vacations in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué (Guinness again). They become acquainted. Barratt becomes drunk and accepts De Gué's invitation to share his hotel room. When he wakes up the next morning, Barratt finds himself alone in the room, with his clothes and passport missing. De Gué's chauffeur Gaston (Geoffrey Keen) shows up to take his master home, and Barratt is unable to convince him that he is not the nobleman. Gaston calls Dr. Aloin (Noel Howlett), who diagnoses the Englishman as suffering from schizophrenia.
Orders to Kill
Orders to Kill (1958)
, 1h52
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth, Philip Bond, Leslie French
Roles Lafitte
Rating70% 3.5384253.5384253.5384253.5384253.538425
A young American bomber pilot Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is selected by Maj. Kimball (John Crawford) to go on a mission to Nazi-occupied Paris and there kill a man believed to be a double agent working in the French Resistance. He is picked because of his fluency in French and military experience. Summers receives rigorous training by his handler Maj. MacMahon (Eddie Albert) and a British Naval Commander (James Robertson Justice). Summers is enthusiastic, and remembers all of the information he needs by setting his instructions to melodies of childhood songs.