Editing Leo McKern (section)

===Theatre===
McKern fell in love with Australian actress Jane Holland, moved to the United Kingdom to be with her, and married her in 1946. Despite the difficulties posed by his [[Ocular prosthesis|glass eye]] and Australian accent, he soon became a regular performer at London's [[Old Vic]] theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now the [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre]]) in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].<ref name="film"/> 

McKern's most notable Shakespearean role was as [[Iago]] in ''[[Othello]]'', in 1952.<ref name="film"/> In 1955 he appeared in ''The Burnt Flower Bed'' by Ugo Betti directed by [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]] at the Arts Theatre Club in London.<ref name="film"/> He played Big Daddy in Peter Hall's production of ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' at the Comedy Theatre in 1958,<ref name="film"/> and went on to play the German ambassador in another Peter Hall production, ''Brouhaha'' starring Peter Sellers at the Aldwych Theatre.<ref name="film"/> He originated the role of Common Man in [[Robert Bolt]]'s ''[[A Man for All Seasons (play)|A Man for All Seasons]]'' in the [[West End of London|West End]] in 1960,<ref name="film"/> but for the show's [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] production appeared as [[Thomas Cromwell|Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex]], a role he would reprise for the [[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|1966 film version]].<ref name="film"/> He also portrayed Subtle in [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]'' in 1962. In 1965, he played the lead in Bolt's ''The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew'', and Disson in [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[Tea Party (play)|Tea Party]]''.<ref name="film"/>

He appeared at the [[Royal Exchange, Manchester]] in ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' in 1977 and in ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' in 1978.<ref name="film"/>

In 1989, he played [[James Boswell]] in the one-man show, ''[[Boswell for the Defence]]'' in theatres in Melbourne, Hong Kong and London.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122273108 |title=Sippets |date=29 June 1989 |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |access-date=15 May 2019 |page=11}}</ref>