Leonard sachs biography

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

Sachs was born in South Africa in the town of Roodepoort, Transvaal (now Gauteng).^[2] He had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 version of Richard II, John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in East Lynne from 1976.^[3][4][5]

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 well known for his elaborate, erudite introductions of the performers.^[6] Sachs was honoured in a 1977 episode of This is Your Life.^[7]

Sachs appeared in Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan.^[8] He had two appearances in the science fic