Leonard Whiting

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Leonard Whiting (born June 30, 1950 in London , England ) is a British film and stage actor .

life and career

Leonard Whiting grew up as the eldest of three children of Arthur Leonard Whiting, a manufacturer of exhibition furniture, and his wife Peggy Joyce O'Sullivan in Hampstead . He has two younger sisters, Linda and Anne.

Whiting attended St. Richard of Chichester School in Camden and first appeared in a casting in 1962, at the age of 12 . It was here that he was discovered by an agent who signed him and him for the role of Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! committed. A total of 18 months Whiting should be in London on the stage, before 13 more months with William Congreve's Love for Love on tour went so well in Moscow and Berlin stopped. In 1965 Whiting made his television debut with a role as a page in the television series A Poor Gentleman .

The then 18-year-old Whiting became known overnight in 1968: In Franco Zeffirelli 's Shakespeare film Romeo and Juliet , he embodied the male title role and in 1969 even won the Golden Globe in the category of best young actor . At that time, some critics compared him to a young Laurence Olivier , but he did not see lasting success. Later Whiting turned only a few films, also because he was dissatisfied with the romantic roles he was offered after Romeo and Juliet . In the following decades Whiting worked mainly as a stage actor and tried his hand at writing. From 1990 he spoke the character of Urpgor in the cartoon series The Dream Stone . In 2015 he stood next to Olivia Hussey in the film Social Suicide , a modern adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet theme, for the first time in decades.

Leonard Whiting was married twice, both marriages were divorced: from 1971 to 1977 with Cathee Dahmen and from 1995 to 2011 with Lynn Presser. He has a daughter from his first marriage, and a second comes from a relationship with Valerie Tobin.

Filmography

  • 1965: A Poor Gentleman (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1965: Laughter from the Whitehall (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1965: Disney-Land ( Disney-Land ; TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1968: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo e Giulietta)
  • 1969: The Fall of the Sun (The Royal Hunt of the Sun)
  • 1969: Childhood, calling and first experiences of the Venetian Giacomo Casanova (Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova)
  • 1971: Say Hello To Yesterday
  • 1972: how can I become a hero? (À la guerre comme à la guerre)
  • 1973: Love Story (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972: Frankenstein - As He Really Was ( Frankenstein: The True Story ; TV Movie)
  • 1973: Smike! (TV movie)
  • 1975: Rachel's Man
  • 1990–1995: Der Traumstein ( The Dreamstone ; TV series, 16 episodes) (voice only)
  • 2015: Social Suicide

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Leonard Whiting in People-Magazine 1992
  2. ↑ Interview with Leonard Whiting in People-Magazine 1992
personal data
SURNAME Whiting, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London