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Leslie Lincoln Henson (3 August 1891 - 2 December 1957) was an English comedian, actor, producer and director.

Leslie Henson was born in London, England, where he was educated at Emanuel School. He was a popular music hall comedian who enjoyed a long stage career and occasionally appeared in the cinema and television. He was married three times, including the actresses Madge Saunders and Gladys Henson. His son from his third marriage Nicky Henson also became an actor. He died in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, aged 66.

On the 23 July 1956, while in Dublin performing, Henson heard that his close friend Bobbie Hullett had died in Eastbourne. He was suspicious because her husband had died just four months earlier and their doctor was John Bodkin Adams, about whom there had been many rumours. He phoned the Eastbourne police anonymously to warn them of his fears, instigating an investigation that would lead to the trial of Adams on two counts of murder. Adams was controversially acquitted on 11 April 1957 but the Home Office pathologist at the time, Dr. Francis Camps, noted 163 suspicious deaths among Adams' patients between 1946 and 1956.^[1]

• Wanted: A Widow (1916)
• The Lifeguardsman (1916) ... as Lt Spiff
• The Real Thing at Last (1916) ... as Charlie Chaplin
• Broken Bottles (1920) ... as Battling Barrows (also writer and director)
• Alf's Button (1920) ... as Alf Higgins
• Tons of Money (1924) ... as Aubrey Allington (also producer)
• On with the Dance (1927)
• A Warm Corner (1930) ... as Mr Corner
• The Sport of Kings (1931) ... as Amos Purdie
• It's a Boy (1933) ... as James Skippett
• The Girl from Maxim's (1933) ... as Dr Petypon
• Oh, Daddy! (1935) ... as Lord Pye
• The Demi-Paradise (1943) ... as Himself
• Home and Away (1956) ... as Uncle Tom

• The Vise: Six Months to Talk (#5.19) (1958) (TV Episode) ... as a Police Sergeant

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