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Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was a British stage and film actor and barrister.
Genn was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, the son of Woolfe (William) Genn, a jewellery salesman, and Rachel Genn née Asserson. His parents were both Jewish.
Genn attended the City of London School and studied law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, qualifying as a barrister in 1928. He ceased practising as a lawyer soon after World War II. On 14 May 1933, Genn married Marguerite van Praag, a casting director at Ealing Studios. They had no children.
Genn's theatrical debut was in 1930 in A Marriage has been Disarranged at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne and then at the Royalty Theatre in Dean Street, London. Actor/manager Leon M. Lion had engaged him simultaneously as an actor and attorney. In 1933 he appeared in Ballerina by Rodney Ackland. Between September 1934 and March 1936, Leo Genn was a member of the Old Vic Company where he appeared in many productions of Shakespeare. In 1937 he was Horatio in Tyrone Guthrie's production of Hamlet, with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet, in Elsinore, Denmark. In 1938, Genn appeared in the theatrical hit, The Flashing Stream by Charles Langbridge Morgan and went with the show to America and Broadway. His many other stage performances included Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, 12 Angry Men, The Devil's Advocate, Maugham's The Sacred Flame. In 1959 Genn gave a reading in Chichester Cathedral.
The Wooden Horse 1950 War, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel Three British POW officers (Leo Genn, Anthony Steel, David Tomlinson) escape from a stalag by tunneling under an outdoor gym horse. Initial release: 1950 Director: Jack Lee Screenplay: Eric Williams Story by: Eric Williams Music composed by: Clifton Parker
Tank Force 1958War, Victor Mature, Leo Genn, Bonar Colleano, "No Time to Die" (original title) Allied soldiers escape from a desert prison camp and are chased across Libya by Arabs and Nazis. Daniel Thatcher is an American sergeant serving with a British tank corps in North Africa. He and most of his unit are captured by the Germans, who learn his identity as a man who once tried to assassinate Josef Goebbels, Hitler's right-hand man. Thatcher's wife was killed in the concentration camps, and now, after his failed attempt to kill the Nazi leader, Thatcher is a real prize for his captors. But Thatcher prefers not to go back to Germany as a prize, so he leads his fellow tankers in an escape attempt. Initial release: April 22, 1958 Director: Terence Young Music composed by: Kenneth V. Jones ...
1954 B&W; film Merle Oberon, Richard Todd,Leo Genn. Woman falls in love with gambling addict in Monte Carlo. http://www.mysterymoviesonline.com/2012/06/mystery-movie-61-affair-in-monte-carlo.html
Un omaggio a MARINA BERTI (troppo presto dimenticata), alla sua ineguagliabile bellezza mediterranea e alla sua intensità comunicativa, con immagini tratte dal film Quo Vadis dove interpreta il personaggio di Eunice, una schiava spagnola profondamente e incondizionatamente innamorata di Petronio (Leo Genn). Magica la musica del compositore ungherese Miklós Rózsa, magistralmente orchestrata dal Maestro Nic Rayne ed eseguita dalla Filarmonica di Praga e Coro.
Cayo Petronio, ha mandado adornar su casa con mucho cuidado, con ornamentos y flores, pues ha invitado a sus íntimos amigos a cenar con él, junto a su esclava, amada, y amante, Eunice (Marina Berti), quién permanece a su lado incondicionalmente. Llama a un médico, que, obedeciendo su orden le corta las venas del antebrazo, comienza a sangrar, Eunice se sorprende con aquella actitud aparentemente inesperada, y, rápida, toma también el instrumento cortante, y cercena, sin más ni más, las suyas propias. Petronio le reprende, mas, la joven está decidida a morir con su amado. El árbitro de la elegancia, llama a un escriba, para dictar una carta que será enviada a Nerón. En ella dice al emperador que él le perdona por haber incendiado Roma, por haber asesinado a su madre Agripina y a su esposa O...
The Red Beret (retitled Paratrooper for the US release) is a 1953 Technicolor British war film directed by Terence Young and starring Alan Ladd, Leo Genn and Susan Stephen. It is the fictitious story about an American who enlists in the British Parachute Regiment in 1940, claiming to be a Canadian. It is notable as the first film made by Irving Allen's and Albert R. Broccoli's Warwick Films, with many of the crew later working on various films for Warwick Films and Broccoli's Eon Productions. It is partly based on the 1950 non-fiction book with the same title, about the Parachute Regiment and its first operation, Operation Biting, in February 1942, written by Hilary Saint George Saunders.
Too Hot to Handle Full Hollywood Movie. In London's Soho, Johnny Solo runs the Pink Flamingo Club. He's tough to intimidate. So when he starts getting threats and demands for protection, he fights back. Behind the takeover plot is a competitor, Diamonds Dielli. Midnight Franklin, who's Johnny's girlfriend and one of the club's headliners, wants to get Johnny out of the business. In the background are a sadistic client, an underage chorus girl, a wisecracking siren who's not averse to rough trade, a visiting journalist, and a dancer who guards her past. Can Johnny win the struggle with Diamonds, and can Midnight get him out of harm's way? Movie Name : Too Hot to Handle (1960) Director : Terence Young Stars : Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm Genre : Drama Note : Global Media Movie...
At the Odeon, Marble Arch, "The Snake Pit" had its Premiere, there were many personalities there including Derek Bond, Jean Kent, Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, Anne Crawford, Leo Genn and Producer Anatole Litvac. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/da95894b585147639f1008a91622663f Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, London. SV. Exterior, people entering theatre - arriving to film premiere "A Star is Born" . STV. & CU. Jeanette Scott and mother Thora Hird arriving in foyer. SV. Sir John Gielgud arriving. STV. Personalities watching arrivals. CU. Leo Genn. SV. & CU. Sir Laurence Olivier talking to Diana Dors. SV. Finlay Currie arriving (in kilt). STV. Personalities watching. CU. Kay Kendall. SCU. Richard (Dickie) Attenborough with wife. SV. Jack Hawkins and wife Sheila Sim. SV. Jack Hawkins with arm in sling accompanied by wife. SV. Kenneth More talking to Laurence Olivier. SV. & LV. Girls with boxes collecting money for two Charities - Actor's Orphanage and Variety Club's Heart Fund. SCU. Girls with boxes. (Orig.Neg.) (Title scene B.) FILM ID:509.29 A VIDEO F...
What is fight all about? What does it mean to fight? A series of amazing interviews made by Gregorio Di Leo, Psychologist, with some of the best fighter and master all over the world. FOR FIGHTERS ONLY- THE BOOK preview
.....American actress Jayne Mansfield is interviewed by Robert Robinson....
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Documentary (14 mins long) about the premiere for the Judy Garland / James Mason film "A Star is Born" - most of the action takes place at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, London. Commentary by Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim. SV. Exterior, people entering theatre - arriving at the film premiere "A Star is Born". Flashback to preparations for the premiere during the daytime - neon lights and signs erected, flowers are delivered, polishing and cleaning etc. Organising committee look at a plans for the evening. Stars are seen preparing for the evening. Diana Dors looking super glamorous leaves a film studio (Pinewood?) in an amazing car. Janette Scott has a dress fitting by Michael Whittaker (?), Sheila Sim and Richard Attenborough get ready together and rush out of a room ...
Jayne Mansfield featuring on a popular Belgium TV program. Her interviewer is speaking Dutch. Jayne gives a very insightful look at how she became famous.
Режиссер: Марк Аллегре / Marc Allegret В ролях: Даниэль Даррье / Danielle Darrieux, Лео Генн / Leo Genn/, Эрно Криза / Erno Crisa/, Жан. Режиссер: Бетсан Моррис Эванс / Betsan Morris Evans В ролях: Нив МакИнтош, Джульетт Кэтон, Мелани Кларк Пуллен, Кеннет. Режиссер: Клод Уотхем / Claude Whatham В ролях: Джереми Айронс, Гила Фон Уайтершаузен, Джейн Лапотейр, Ли Лоусон,.
Moby Dick (1956) Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, and Leo Genn
With my pale eyes, I watch with delight
Beyond the horizon on the everlasting night
A heart so black and cold as ice
A soul in fire blessed and baptized
Lucifer is the fallen light-bearer
For his glory we must all burn!
Children of darkness...
Raise your blood-filled cups to our father with horns
In eternity, we shall blaspheme the one who was tormented with thorns
A new era will arise as I see the black angels of the abyss fly
And the demons come storming in the silent cloud-less sky
With their burning eyes of ripping evil...
I am given strength from a thousand sinners
That dwell in the everlasting, burning, roaring depths of Hell
With the demons the possess my blackened heart and soul
I shall strive for Satan's triumph and reach infernal goals
Children of darkness...
Raise your blood-filled cups to our father with horns
In eternity, we shall blaspheme the one who was tormented with thorns
Feel the darkness growing when we draw near
My name is legion, for we are many in here
Heaven shall burn accompaigned by the angels' cries
We shall invert paradise