Leonard Smith

Leonard Smith was born in Fordwich, Kent in 1934 to his father Aurther Henry Smith and his mother Carrie Apps. He is a younger brother to Myrtle Todd (1930). At the young age of 9, he was walking to school one morning, eating an apple, when a camera man took his picture. He was then given the part of Leslie in the film 'A Canterbury Tale'. When Leonard left school he became a Dental Technician and apart from serving three years in the Royal Air Force (1954-1957) he remained so until his retirement. He married Jean Thompson, in Scotland in 1960 and lived with her in the outskirts of Glasgow for 18 years. He has two children, Derek Smith (1965) and Norma Smith (1968), and four grandchildren, Oliver, Francesca, Kieran, and Megan. He now lives in Herne Bay, Kent, with his wife and his family close by.