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Full Name
  
Leonard Whiting

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Leonard Whiting

Years active
  
1962–present

Occupation
  
Actor


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Born
  
30 June 1950 (age 73) (
1950-06-30
)

Children
  
Charlotte Westenra, Sarah Whiting

Spouse
  
Lynn Presser (m. 1995), Cathee Dahmen (m. 1971–1977)

Parents
  
Arthur Leonard Whiting, Peggy Joyce O'Sullivan

Siblings
  
Linda Whiting, Anne Whiting

Movies
  
Similar People
  
Olivia Hussey, Franco Zeffirelli, Cathee Dahmen, John McEnery, India Eisley

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Leonard Whiting (born 30 June 1950) is an English actor and singer who is best known for his role as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey's Juliet, a role which earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor. He was touted as a star in the making, the next Laurence Olivier and the next great British actor.

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Leonard whiting


Early life

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Whiting was born in the Wood Green area of London, England, the only son of Arthur Leonard Whiting and Peggy Joyce O'Sullivan. He has English, Irish and some Romani/Gypsy ancestry. Whiting attended the St. Richard of Chichester School, Camden Town, leaving just a week or two before beginning work on Romeo and Juliet (1968).

Career

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Whiting was spotted by an agent at the Connaught Rooms where he was performing at a Jewish wedding at the age of 12. He only sang one song ("Summertime") which he had rehearsed as a one-off song with the group Teal Lewis and the Fourtunes, who were the entertainment for the evening. This was set up by his father to get him noticed. After hearing him sing, the agent suggested he try out for Lionel Bart's Oliver! which constantly needed replacements for its child performers. Whiting played the Artful Dodger in the long-running London musical for 18 months, and for 13 months appeared at Laurence Olivier's National Theatre in the production of Congreve's Love for Love opposite Olivier, which toured Moscow and Berlin.

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Director Franco Zeffirelli described his discovery, made from 300 youngsters who auditioned during more than three months: "He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be."

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He is also renowned for his on-stage part as the Artful Dodger in the original London cast of Oliver!, where he replaced Davy Jones when Jones and most of the London cast were transferred to New York City for the play's Broadway run.

In the mid-1970s, his voice caught the attention of Abbey Road and The Dark Side of the Moon engineer Alan Parsons, who was in the process of recording what was to be the first album by the Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Whiting performed lead vocals on the song "The Raven".

In 2014, he reunited with Olivia Hussey for the film Social Suicide (2015), their first work together in the 46 years since Romeo and Juliet.

Personal life

Whiting ended his film career, for the most part, in the mid-'70s and subsequently placed his focus upon his theatrical career as an actor and writer. He now lives in London.

Filmography

Actor
2015
Social Suicide as
Julia's Father
1990
The Dreamstone (TV Series) as
Urpgor
- The Spider-Mobile (1995) - Urpgor (voice)
- Planet Prunus (1995) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Jolly Bird (1995) - Urpgor (voice)
- Megaattack (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- Agorrible Attack (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Statue Collection (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Daydream Bubble (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- Too Hot to Handle (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- Blob's Incredible Plan (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Shrinking Stone (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- Albert Is Fishnapped (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Voice of Zordrac (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- Invisible Blob (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Knitted Balloon (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- Into Viltheed (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
- The Dreamstone (1990) - Urpgor (voice)
1975
Rachel's Man as
Jacob
1973
Smike! (TV Movie) as
Nicholas Nickleby
1973
Frankenstein: The True Story (TV Movie) as
Dr. Victor Frankenstein
1973
Love Story (TV Series) as
Nicholas Miller
- My Brother's House (1973) - Nicholas Miller
1972
War Is Hell as
Franz Keller
1971
Say Hello to Yesterday as
Boy
1969
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence as
Giacomo Casanova
1969
The Royal Hunt of the Sun as
Young Martin
1968
Romeo and Juliet as
Romeo
1966
The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) as
Jimmy the Dip
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) - Jimmy the Dip
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) - Jimmy the Dip
1965
Laughter from the Whitehall (TV Series) as
Albert Butch
- Women Aren't Angels (1965) - Albert Butch
1965
A Poor Gentleman (TV Series) as
The Page
- Part Two (1965) - The Page
- Part One (1965) - The Page
1965
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin as
Jimmy the Dip
Producer
1985
Grave's End (co-producer)
Soundtrack
1978
Rings on Their Fingers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Party Mood (1978) - (performer: "Just With You")
Self
1968
The Teen-Age Lovers of Verona (TV Short documentary) as
Self / Romeo
1968
The Donald O'Connor Show (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 17 November 1968 (1968) - Self
1968
Royal Film Performance 1968: "Romeo and Juliet" by Franco Zeffirelli. London as
Self
1967
Now and Then (TV Series documentary short) as
Self (1967)
1967
Our World (TV Special documentary) as
Self / Romeo (Italien segment)
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #6.3 (1963) - Self - Guest
Archive Footage
2021
Les liaisons scandaleuses (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2016
Arena (TV Series documentary)
- All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film (2016)
2016
Shakespeare: The Legacy (TV Movie documentary) as
Romeo (uncredited)
2015
Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) as
Romeo
- Romeo and Juliet (2015) - Romeo
2002
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)

References

Leonard Whiting Wikipedia