Will Leighton
Biography
Will Leighton was born on March 9, 1908 in Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK. He was an actor, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), Broome Stages (1966) and First Night (1963). He was married to Carmen Hill. He died on May 3, 2001 in Surrey, England, UK.
Known For & Full Filmography19 Titles
Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes • as Mr. Wyecroft
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Seamus
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes • as Mr Keegan
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Peter Marston
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Joseph
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes • as Librarian
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • as Tutor
A six-episode dramatisation of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode, with a different writer, is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.
Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Sam Bocock
Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. D. James. It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Bowers
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Old Semple
Private Semple returns to his Antrim home after the Battle of the Somme, the village's sole survivor from all the 'brave boys of Ulster' who volunteered; but the battle scars go far deeper than anyone suspects.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Mr. Wyecroft
A schoolmaster invites a nineteen-year-old student to stay with him and his wife to cram for imminent exams.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Priest
Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With them it's all television. But she and Ray have the local library and The Observer. They keep abreast. They're different.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Old Man
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Librarian
Scholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester Cathedral library takes an eerie turn when he comes across the papers of the late Archdeacon, who plotted to gain his position through murder. However, he soon comes to discover something truly horrific about the wooden choir stalls in the church, which are tied to a famous local tree and a sinister local legend.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Clergyman
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.
Movie - 1972, 2h 15m • as Irish priest
The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Mr. Thomas
The death of a factory owner signals a change for all of the staff, none more so than a sheet metal worker called Watson, who is denied a promised promotion and finds his position as the unofficial leader of the sheet metal workers challenged by Gregg, a new apprentice who joins the factory and isn't willing to follow the accepted order.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Professor M'Hugh
One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Old Man
Late at night a gang of young men refuse to pay their bus fares, and assault the conductor. None of the other passengers or the driver intervene. After the incident everybody involved is interviewed in the studio about why they behaved as they did. Scene’s first play, specially commissioned for the series, was repeated late at night for an adult audience in December 1968, and shown again for schools to mark 25 years of Scene in 1993.