Leo Genn
Popularity:0.187
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1905-08-09
Place of Birth:London, England, UK
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Also Known As:Leo John Genn

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the...

Moby Dick (1956)
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...

Ten Little Indians (1965)
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...

Quo Vadis (1951)
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical...

The Longest Day (1962)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

55 Days at Peking (1963)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...

Blackmail (1955)
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.

The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

The Way Ahead (1944)
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...

Green for Danger (1946)
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

The Bloody Judge (1970)
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord...

Circus of Fear (1966)
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

The Snake Pit (1948)
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions...

The Wooden Horse (1950)
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

The Magic Box (1952)
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...

The Silent One (1973)
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...

Life of Adolf Hitler (1961)
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage...

Plymouth Adventure (1952)
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William...

The Red Beret (1953)
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...

Die Screaming Marianne (1971)
After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely...

Escape by Night (1960)
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian...

The Steel Bayonet (1958)
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation...

Personal Affair (1953)
A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.

Mrs. Miniver (1960)
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
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...

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955)
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...

The Green Scarf (1954)
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense...

24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

I Accuse! (1958)
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...

Connecting Rooms (1970)
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.

Tank Force! (1958)
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

The Rat (1937)
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...

Tunisian Victory (1944)
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.

The Miniver Story (1950)
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and...

Too Hot to Handle (1960)
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...

The Return of the Vikings (1944)
British war documentary

No Place for Jennifer (1950)
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

London Belongs to Me (1948)
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

When Thief Meets Thief (1937)
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

Kate Plus Ten (1938)
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

Frightmare (1974)
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...

Endless Night (1972)
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...

The MacKintosh Man (1973)
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate...

I Went Back (1950)
Leo Genn revisits some of the cities he served in during WWII.

Elizabeth Is Queen (1953)
This spectacular 1953 documentary, released in cinemas, records the events of Elizabeth II's coronation day in glorious colour.

The Immortal Land (1958)
Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

The Undefeated (1950)
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.

Girl in the News (1940)
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...

Contraband (1940)
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

The Delhi Way (1964)
A documentary about Delhi.

Ten Days in Paris (1940)
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...

Beyond Mombasa (1956)
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Attack: The Battle for New Britain (1944)
War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the...

Henry V (1944)
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

The Titanic Incident (1955)
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...

Accused (1936)
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...

Dangerous Medicine (1938)
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.

Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
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...

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
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...

The Dream Doctor (1936)
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2 (1945)
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...

Khartoum (1966)
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...

French Communique (1940)
Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Theirs Is the Glory (1946)
Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.

The Bells Go Down (1943)
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...

Pygmalion (1939)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

Law and Disorder (1940)
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...

Tonight in Britain (1954)
A short survey of British entertainment and London attractions photographed at Edinburgh, Stratford and in London.

Power for All (1951)
Part of a six part series, this BAFTA Special award nominated documentary looking at the building of hydro-electric power schemes in the Alps of...

The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
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The Persuaders! (1971)
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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The Virginian (1962)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

Your Show of Shows (1950)
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
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The Expert (1968)
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The Defenders (1961)
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Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
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