LONDON -- Leo McKern, 82, the Australian actor who gained fame as a curmudgeonly barrister in "Rumpole of the Bailey," died July 23 at a nursing home near his home in Bath in western England. The ...
television series, Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at the age of 82. One of Britain's most resourceful, much-loved actors, McKern, who suffered from diabetes, had been ill for some time. But as the ...