13 Facts About Leonard Whiting

1.

The only son of Peggy Joyce and Arthur Leonard Whiting, he has English, Irish and some Romani ancestry.

2.

Leonard Whiting went on to attend St Richard of Chichester School, Camden Town, leaving in 1967, before his 17th birthday, to begin work on Romeo and Juliet.

3.

Leonard Whiting had some success as a child singer, almost winning Butlin's Talent Contest hosted in the holiday camp's packed out Gaiety Theatre.

4.

Leonard Whiting was later spotted by a theatrical agent at the Connaught Rooms Holborn, where he was performing at a Jewish wedding at the age of 12.

5.

Leonard Whiting only sang one song which he had rehearsed as a one-off song with the group Teal Lewis and the Fourtunes, who provided the evening's entertainment.

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Leonard Whiting played the male lead, opposite Jean Simmons in the 1971 film, Say Hello to Yesterday, a romantic comedy, filmed on location in and around London, set over one day, with him pursuing a bored housewife, twice his age storyline.

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Leonard Whiting performed lead vocals on the song "The Raven" and he narrated the introduction of the five part musical rendition of The Fall of the House of Usher on the original 1976 album, which was then replaced by Orson Welles on the 1987 remixed version.

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8.

Leonard Whiting was cast as the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in London's Westminster Theatre between 27 November 1978 and 17 January 1979.

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In 1990, Leonard Whiting provided the voice of the Urpney scientist Urpgor in the children's animated television series The Dreamstone.

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Leonard Whiting dated his teenage co-star Olivia Hussey for a time and the two have remained close.

11.

In 1971, he married US model Cathee Dahmen and in 1972, they had a daughter, Sarah Beth Leonard Whiting, who died in America in 2014 from cervical cancer.

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Leonard Whiting ended his film career, for the most part, in the mid-1970s and subsequently focused on his theatrical career as an actor and writer.

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Paramount Pictures have reportedly earned up to $500 million from the production, and Leonard Whiting, according to business manager Tony Marinozzi, wants Paramount held accountable for the mental and emotional abuse suffered over the intervening years.