Leonard Fenton

Leonard Fenton is a British actor, director and painter, best known for his role as Dr. Harold Legg in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders.

Fenton was born Leonard Feinstein in the East End of London, where he was raised, the son of Jewish parents with ancestral roots in Eastern Europe . He attended Raine Foundation Grammar School from 1937 to 1944. Fenton originally trained to be a civil engineer at Kings College London and during World War II he was conscripted as an army engineer. He worked in this profession for five years after leaving the army, but eventually decided on a career change. He took up acting and won a scholarship to attend the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

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