Leonard Whiting
Leonard Whiting (* June 30, 1950 in London, England ) is a British film and stage actor.
Biography
Whiting grew up as the oldest of three children of Arthur Leonard Whiting ( manufacturer of exhibition furniture ) and Peggy Joyce O'Sullivan (call center agent ) in North London, in the room at Hampstead. He also has two younger sisters, Linda and Anne.
Whiting attended the St. Richard of Chichester School, Camden, and took in 1962, at the age of 12 years, for the first time at a casting part. Here an agent was aware of him, who took him under contract and him for the role of the Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! committed. 18 months Whiting should be on stage in London before he went 13 more months with William Congreve's Love for Love on tour, and so also in Moscow and Berlin halted. In 1965 also Whiting's film debut in the adventure film The Legend of Young Dick Turpin.
But the role that helped him to break through should make 1968 the then 18 -year-old Whiting famous overnight. He embodied in Franco Zeffirelli's " Romeo and Juliet" the male title role and won the Golden Globe in 1969 even.
After " Romeo and Juliet" But Whiting was to make only eight other films; In 1974, he stood in the Bible filming Rachel's husband for the last time in front of the camera. 1990 - to date his last film work - he spoke in the animated series "The Dream Stone " one of the lead roles.
Private Leonard Whiting was married twice, and had with his late wife Cathy a daughter. A second daughter from a relationship with Valerie Tobin. Whiting is married in second marriage with the South African Lynn Presser.