Leon Lissek

Acting

Born January 1, 1927, Australia

Leon Lissek is an Australian born actor who primarily works in the UK. He has appeared in over 80 films in a career that stretches back to the 1960s and has done extensive work in television both in the UK and Australia.

Filmography

• 2007I Really Hate My Job — Old Man #1
• 2005Song of Songs — Rabbi Berg
• Cambridge Spies — Prof. Bruno Klein
• Foyle's War — Isaac Rothstein
• 2002The Book of Eve — Sam
• 2001The Discovery of Heaven — Hotel Owner
• Arabian Nights — Dr. Ezra
• 2000Breathtaking — Dr. Horowitz
• 2000Esther Kahn — Theatre manager
• 2000For My Baby — Sam Marx
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure — Sheik Es-Salih
• McCallum
• 1997Paul: The Emissary — Annas
• 1997Sharpe's Revenge — Juliot
• Our Friends in the North — Walensky
• 1996Surviving Picasso — Testicle
• The Final Cut — Evanghelos Passolides
• 1994Nobody's Children — Dr. Preda
• 1994Nostradamus — Inquisitor
• Sharpe — Juliot
• 1993The Trial — Second Stairman
• 1992Running Late — Harold Zec
• 1991Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady — Stage Door-Keeper
• 1990Bloodmoon — Myles Sheffield
• 1990Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files — Faruk
• 1990Small Zones — Yershov
• Shadow of the Noose — Count Festetics
• Twist of Fate — Ginzberg
• Noble House — Christian Toxe
• 1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Bold Man in Bar
• 1988Young Toscanini — M° Superti
• 1987Personal Services — Mr. Popozogolou
• 1986God's Outlaw — Herman Rincke
• 1986The Fools on the Hill — Isaac Shoenberg
• 1986Whoops Apocalypse — Politburo Member
• Screen Two — Second Stairman
• Freud — Wittels
• 1984Squaring the Circle — 3rd Witness
• 1984The Tragedy of Coriolanus — Third Citizen
• 1983Enemies of the State — Vaclav Benda
• 1982Baal — Mjurk
• Remington Steele — Smuggler
• Take a Letter, Mr Jones — Roberto
• 1981The Island of Adventure — Jo
• 1981Time Bandits — Refugee #1
• Shōgun — Father Sebastio
• 1979The Saint and the Brave Goose — Pancho
• Return of the Saint — Pancho
• 1978Sweeney 2 — Cardona Alexandros
• The Famous Five — Hunchy
• Wilde Alliance — Hank
• The Professionals — Pole
• Power Without Glory
• 1976The Adventures of Eliza Fraser — Sergeant
• The Sullivans — Hans Kauffman
• Ten from the Twenties — Monsieur Rudolphe
• 1974Murder on the Orient Express — Dining Car Steward (uncredited)
• Not on Your Nellie — Rachmaninoff Landlord
• Roberts Robots — Marken
• 1973Tales That Witness Madness — Keoki (segment "Luau")
• 1973The Blockhouse — Kozhek
• Crown Court — Edward Lippett
• The Protectors — Pannides
• Van der Valk — Frans
• 1971Countess Dracula — Sergeant of Bailiffs
• 1971Nicholas and Alexandra — Avadayev
• 1971The Horsemen — Chikana Proprietor
• 1971The Last Valley — Czeraki
• 1970Underground — Sergeant in Bistro
• 1969Journey to the Unknown — Andros Matakitas
• 1969Where's Jack? — Deeley
• 1968Inspector Clouseau — French Taxi Driver
• 1968Isadora — Bohemian (uncredited)
• Journey to the Unknown — Andros Matakitas
• 1968Tell Me Lies — Party Guest
• 1967The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade — Lavoisier
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Warder
• The Avengers — Taxi Driver