16 Facts About Leslie Fuller

Albert Leslie Fuller was born in 1888 at 14 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London.

Leslie Fuller's father was Albert Fuller and his mother was Amelia Lipley.

From an early age Leslie Fuller became obsessed with show business, and started performing in a small schoolboy minstrel troupe.

Leslie Fuller then moved on to join a troupe in Maidenhead, playing in a small marquee by the river and during the regatta on the river itself in a small punt.

In 1914 at the end of a summer season in Weston-super-Mare, Leslie Fuller married one of his fellow entertainers, the 26-year-old dancer and male impersonator Beatrice Witham.

Leslie Fuller was a keen cyclist, and held various cycling records.

Leslie Fuller became one of the leading comedians on the British Army concert party circuit.

Leslie Fuller's wife Beatrice was a talented clothes designer and seamstress, and together they set about putting the Ped'lers onto a commercial footing.

Leslie Fuller was becoming noticed, and was offered a part in a film by producer Joe Rock, who had produced some of Stan Laurel's comedies.

Leslie Fuller leased the old Neptune Studios at Elstree and produced his own movies under the name "Leslie Fuller Pictures Ltd".

Leslie Fuller continued to work, and while he was filming The Pride of the Force in 1932, he met his second wife, Anne Bates, who was appearing as a bare-back elephant rider in a circus.

Leslie Fuller had appeared in concert parties doing tap routines together with her sisters Helen and Cecilia and her brother John, so had much in common with Leslie.

Leslie Fuller sold up his Teddington house and moved back to Margate, taking up residence at 20 Cornwall Gardens.

Leslie Fuller busied himself in local affairs, and often turned out to play in charity cricket matches.

Leslie Fuller successfully revived the Ped'lers again for the 1946 summer season at the Lido Theatre, Cliftonville.

Leslie Fuller died at home in 1948 aged 59 after a suffering a severe brain haemorrhage.