Leo Genn
Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. Signified by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television, and radio; often playing aristocratic or gentlemanly, sophisticate roles.
Born to a Jewish family in London, Genn was educated as a lawyer and was a practicing barrister until after World War II, in which he served in the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He began his acting career at The Old Vic and made his film debut in 1935, starring in a total of 85 screen roles until his death in 1978. For his portrayal of Petronius in the 1951 Hollywood epic Quo Vadis, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.642 |
| Birthday | 1905-08-09 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Leo John Genn, |
1968
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.1/9
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the h...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1956
Moby Dick
7/411
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a s...
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Moby Dick
1965
Ten Little Indians
6.3/120
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in unique...
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Ten Little Indians
1951
Quo Vadis
7.078/400
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...
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Quo Vadis
1962
The Longest Day
7.6/920
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
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The Longest Day
1963
55 Days at Peking
7/162
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebe...
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55 Days at Peking
1955
Blackmail
0/0
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.
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Blackmail
1948
The Velvet Touch
6.1/27
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
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The Velvet Touch
1944
The Way Ahead
6.4/35
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...
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The Way Ahead
1946
Green for Danger
6.8/85
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Green for Danger
1970
The Bloody Judge
4.9/41
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord C...
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The Bloody Judge
1966
Circus of Fear
5.2/32
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
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Circus of Fear
1948
The Snake Pit
7/99
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...
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The Snake Pit
1950
The Wooden Horse
6.7/25
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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The Wooden Horse
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box
1973
The Silent One
7.2/43
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another...
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The Silent One
1961
Life of Adolf Hitler
7.1/3
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documen...
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Life of Adolf Hitler
1952
Plymouth Adventure
5.4/18
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bra...
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Plymouth Adventure
1953
The Red Beret
6.9/11
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian...
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The Red Beret
1971
Die Screaming Marianne
6/26
After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death...
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Die Screaming Marianne
1960
Escape by Night
6.8/18
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergea...
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Escape by Night
1958
The Steel Bayonet
5.2/4
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post...
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The Steel Bayonet
1953
Personal Affair
6.2/13
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
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Personal Affair
1960
Mrs. Miniver
0/0
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.
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Mrs. Miniver
1953
The Girls of Pleasure Island
5/5
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his thr...
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The Girls of Pleasure Island
1955
Lady Chatterley's Lover
5.9/13
Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
1954
The Green Scarf
5.3/3
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense at...
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The Green Scarf
1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
4.7/3
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1958
I Accuse!
6.1/5
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...
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I Accuse!
1970
Connecting Rooms
6/8
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.
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Connecting Rooms
1958
Tank Force!
6/8
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
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Tank Force!
1937
The Rat
7.5/2
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "r...
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The Rat
1944
Tunisian Victory
6.2/15
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.
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Tunisian Victory
1950
The Miniver Story
6/11
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing...
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The Miniver Story
1960
Too Hot to Handle
4.5/19
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner a...
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Too Hot to Handle
1975
You Are Free, Dr. Korczak
0/0
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You Are Free, Dr. Korczak
1944
The Return of the Vikings
0/0
British war documentary
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The Return of the Vikings
1950
No Place for Jennifer
5.8/4
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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No Place for Jennifer
1948
London Belongs to Me
6.7/13
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot...
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London Belongs to Me
1937
When Thief Meets Thief
5/2
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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When Thief Meets Thief
1938
Kate Plus Ten
0/0
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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Kate Plus Ten
1974
Frightmare
6.3/63
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for coveri...
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Frightmare
1973
The MacKintosh Man
6.1/89
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate...
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The MacKintosh Man
1972
Endless Night
6.058/52
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famo...
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Endless Night
1950
I Went Back
6/1
Leo Genn revisits some of the cities he served in during WWII.
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I Went Back
1953
Elizabeth Is Queen
7/1
This spectacular 1953 documentary, released in cinemas, records the events of Elizabeth II's coronation day in glorious colour.
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Elizabeth Is Queen
1958
The Immortal Land
0/0
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.
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The Immortal Land
1950
The Undefeated
0/0
Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
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The Undefeated
1940
Girl in the News
6.5/5
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...
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Girl in the News
1940
Contraband
6.9/17
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...
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Contraband
1964
The Delhi Way
5.7/3
A documentary about Delhi.
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The Delhi Way
1940
Ten Days in Paris
7.5/4
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true b...
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Ten Days in Paris
1956
Beyond Mombasa
7.1/5
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
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Beyond Mombasa
1944
Attack: The Battle for New Britain
6/2
War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the Sout...
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Attack: The Battle for New Britain
1944
Henry V
6.6/110
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Henry V
1955
The Titanic Incident
0/0
A married pair of gamblers try to fleece a wealthy British nobleman while sailing on the Titanic's fateful cruise, but she begins to have misgivings a...
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The Titanic Incident
1936
Accused
0/0
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later...
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Accused
1938
Dangerous Medicine
0/0
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
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Dangerous Medicine
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
6.3/16
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conn...
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Mourning Becomes Electra
1942
The Young Mr. Pitt
5.4/6
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
1971
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
6.5/154
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up...
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
1936
The Dream Doctor
6.5/2
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman
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The Dream Doctor
1964
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
5.8/10
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1945
Caesar and Cleopatra
6.1/56
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
0/0
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to ass...
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Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
1966
Khartoum
6.2/107
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
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Khartoum
1940
French Communique
0/0
Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."
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French Communique
1946
Theirs Is the Glory
6.7/11
Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.
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Theirs Is the Glory
1943
The Bells Go Down
6.8/8
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...
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The Bells Go Down
1939
Pygmalion
6.993/134
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...
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Pygmalion
1940
Law and Disorder
0/0
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by...
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