Leonard Sachs
Biography
Leonard Sachs was a South African-British actor, born in Roodepoort, Transvaal Colony, who moved to Britain in 1929 and worked in television and film from the 1930s to the 1980s. He played Mowbray in a 1950 BBC production of Richard II, took the lead in John Wesley (1954), and appeared as Lord Mount Severn in East Lynne, beginning in 1976. He founded the Players' Theatre, an Old Time Music Hall in London's Villiers Street, Charing Cross, and later chaired the Leeds City Varieties on the BBC series The Good Old Days. In that long-running variety show, which lasted from 1953 to 1983, he was known for his elaborate, learned introductions of performers. His credits also included Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan, two Doctor Who stories in 1966 and 1983, and the 1985 Royal Variety Performance, where he paid tribute to The Good Old Days. A 1977 This Is Your Life episode honored him.
80years old at death
- Born Roodepoort
- Died London
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Leonard Meyer Sachs
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 15 years1950 to 1965
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In Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London, Leonard Sachs founded an Old Time Music Hall that he named the Players' Theatre.
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