Leo McKern "The Omen" (1976), "The Blue Lagoon" (1980), "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981) and "Ladyhawke" (1985). He was presented with the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for "Travelling North" (1987). In "Monsignor Quixote" (1985), he co-starred as Sancho Zancas opposite Alec Guinness as Father Quixote. One of McKern's earliest television roles was in the 1950s black-and-white series "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (as Sir Roger DeLisle, usurper of the Locksley manor and lands, and Herbert of Doncaster, a corrupt moneylender). During the 1960s, he was one of several Number Twos in the groundbreaking and critically
A Son Is Born was a 22-year-old radio actor who later moved to England and married Leo McKern. Kitty Bluett was a musical comedy star, the daughter of comedian Fred Bluett. The film was shot in the Supreme Sound System studio in early 1945. Filming was scheduled to allow the actors to take radio and stage jobs, and sometimes would start at midnight. War footage shot by Damien Parer is used in the New Guinea sequences. The movie was shot prior to "Smithy" (1946), also starring Randell and Steinbeck, but its release was held off until after that bigger budget movie to take advantage