Jump to content

Leonard Sachs: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 35: Line 35:
Sachs married the actress [[Eleanor Summerfield]] in 1947. The couple had two sons, the actor [[Robin Sachs]] and Toby Sachs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/16/guardianobituaries|title=Obituary: Eleanor Summerfield|author=Eric Shorter|work=The Guardian|date=16 July 2001}}</ref>
Sachs married the actress [[Eleanor Summerfield]] in 1947. The couple had two sons, the actor [[Robin Sachs]] and Toby Sachs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/16/guardianobituaries|title=Obituary: Eleanor Summerfield|author=Eric Shorter|work=The Guardian|date=16 July 2001}}</ref>


In January 1984, he was fined £75 for "[[Cottaging|importuning men for an immoral purpose]]" at [[Notting Hill Gate tube station]].<ref name=CS51482161>{{cite news |title=Sachs fined |date=Jan 17, 1984 |page=3 |newspaper=The Times|url=http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/keywordsearch.arc?queryKeywords=News+in+Brief|ref=CS51482161 |quote=Leonard Sachs, aged 74, compere of the BBC's Good Old Days television show, was fined £75... for importuning men for an immoral purpose in Notting Hill Gate Station public lavatories.}}</ref>
In January 1984, he was fined £75 for "[[Cottaging|importuning men for an immoral purpose]]" at [[Notting Hill Gate tube station]].<ref name=CS51482161>{{cite news |title=Sachs fined |date=Jan 17, 1984 |page=3 |newspaper=The Times|url=http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/keywordsearch.arc?queryKeywords=News+in+Brief|ref=CS51482161 |quote=Leonard Sachs, aged 74, compere of the BBC's Good Old Days television show, was fined £75... for importuning men for an immoral purpose in Notting Hill Gate Station public lavatories.}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>


Sachs died from [[kidney failure]] on 15 June 1990 in [[Westminster]], [[London]], at the age of 80.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19900616/045/0003 Death of 'Good Old Days' Star] ''The Courier'', 16 June 1990, p. 3</ref>
Sachs died from [[kidney failure]] on 15 June 1990 in [[Westminster]], [[London]], at the age of 80.<ref>[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19900616/045/0003 Death of 'Good Old Days' Star] ''The Courier'', 16 June 1990, p. 3</ref>
Line 104: Line 104:
[[Category:South African male film actors]]
[[Category:South African male film actors]]
[[Category:South African male television actors]]
[[Category:South African male television actors]]
[[Category:South African male actors]]

Latest revision as of 13:04, 2 December 2024

For similarly named people, see Leonard Sax (disambiguation).

Leonard Sachs
Born
Leonard Meyer Sachs

(1909-09-26)26 September 1909
Roodepoort, Transvaal Colony
Died15 June 1990(1990-06-15) (aged 80)
Westminster, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1936–1983
Spouse
​
(m. 1947)​
Children2, including Robin

Leonard Meyer Sachs (26 September 1909 – 15 June 1990) was a South African-born British actor.[1]

Life and career

[edit]

Sachs was born in the town of Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal Colony, present day South Africa.[2] He was Jewish.[3] He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1929 and had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 BBC Television version of Richard II, John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in East Lynne from 1976.[4][5][6]

He founded an Old Time Music Hall, named the Players' Theatre, in Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London. He appeared as the Chairman of the Leeds City Varieties in the long-running BBC television series The Good Old Days, which ran from 1953 to 1983, and became known for his elaborate, sesquipedalian introductions of the performers.[7] Sachs was honoured in a 1977 episode of This Is Your Life.[citation needed]

Sachs appeared in Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan.[8] He had two appearances in the science fiction series Doctor Who: as Admiral Gaspard de Coligny in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve in 1966 and as Lord President Borusa in Arc of Infinity in 1983.[9] He appeared in the 1985 Royal Variety Performance in a tribute to The Good Old Days.

Personal life

[edit]

Sachs married the actress Eleanor Summerfield in 1947. The couple had two sons, the actor Robin Sachs and Toby Sachs.[10]

In January 1984, he was fined £75 for "importuning men for an immoral purpose" at Notting Hill Gate tube station.[11]

Sachs died from kidney failure on 15 June 1990 in Westminster, London, at the age of 80.[12]

Selected filmography

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Leonard Sachs". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Leonard Sachs". TV.com.
  3. ^ "British Jewry Hall of Fame". ukinformedinvestor.co.uk.
  4. ^ "The Tragedy of King Richard II (1950)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Leonard Sachs – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  6. ^ "East Lynne (1976)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015.
  7. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Good Old Days, The (1953–83)". screenonline.org.uk.
  8. ^ "Danger Man: The Coyannis Story". TV.com.
  9. ^ "Leonard Sachs". TV.com.
  10. ^ Eric Shorter (16 July 2001). "Obituary: Eleanor Summerfield". The Guardian.
  11. ^ "Sachs fined". The Times. 17 January 1984. p. 3. Leonard Sachs, aged 74, compere of the BBC's Good Old Days television show, was fined £75... for importuning men for an immoral purpose in Notting Hill Gate Station public lavatories.[dead link‍]
  12. ^ Death of 'Good Old Days' Star The Courier, 16 June 1990, p. 3
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Leonard_Sachs&oldid=1260753450"