Leo McKern with Australian actress Jane Holland, McKern moved to the United Kingdom to be with her; they married in 1946. He soon became a regular performer at London's Old Vic theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon, despite the difficulties posed by his glass eye and Australian accent. McKern's most notable Shakespearean role was as Iago in "Othello", in 1952. In 1955 he appeared in "The Burnt Flower Bed" by Ugo Betti directed by Peter Hall at the Arts Theatre Club in London. He played Big Daddy in Peter Hall's production of "Cat on a
Leo de Berardinis Leo de Berardinis Leo de Berardinis (3 January 1940 in Gioi – 18 September 2008 in Rome) was an Italian stage actor and theatre director. He was an important exponent of the Italian "avant-garde" theatre. Born in Gioi, a village in southern Campania, de Berardinis grew up in the Apulian city of Foggia. After his first experiences as stage actor in the company of Carlo Quartucci, he started his collaboration with Perla Peragallo and, in 1968, he collaborated to the play "Don Quixote" of Carmelo Bene. During the 1970s, he moved to Marigliano, near Naples, with Perla Peregallo, in which