Leslie Grantham(1947-2018)

Actor
Producer
Writer

A former hitman and down-on-his-luck debt collector known only as Requiem rescues a young girl after her parents are murdered by an international child trafficking gang, igniting an violent game of cat-and-mouse.

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Trafficking (2023)

Best remembered as Dirty Den in Eastenders. While serving in the army in Germany, he murdered a taxi driver and was sentenced to life, serving ten years in Wormwood Scrubs. While there, a touring company put on a show which transformed him. He joined the prison theatre group and was in every play they put on while he was there. On release, he took up acting and married actress Jane Laurie.

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Known for

EastEnders

4.8

TV Series

Den Watts

The Uninvited

6.3

TV Series

Chief Supt. Philip Gates

Doctor Who

8.4

TV Series

Kiston

Waiting for Godot

6.6

Estragon

1991

Credits

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Actor

Vengeance
3.6
- Ronnie
- 2020
Touching the Blue
- Max Langton
- 2020
Search and Destroy
2.8
- Anderson
- 2020
The Krays: Dead Man Walking
3.1
- Nipper Read
- 2018
Jack Southeast
3.8
- The Boss
- 2018
Mob Handed
2.4
- The Detective
- 2016
Leslie
4.8
Short
- Leslie
- 2013
The Factory
6.1
- Gene
- 2013
Acceptance
4.3
- Ronnie
- 2012
Deadtime
2.3
- Mr LaRoux
- 2012
Dead Trust: Prequel
8.2
Short
- Dobson
- 2011
The Bill
6.7
TV Series
- Jimmy Smith
- Jimmy Collins
- 1998–2007
EastEnders
4.8
TV Series
- Den Watts
- 1985–2005
Charlie
5.5
- Richard Waldeck
- 2004
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2003
TV Special
- Den Watts
- 2003

Producer

Writer

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Personal details

Alternative names
- Lesley Grantham
Height
- 6′ (1.83 m)
Born
- April 30, 1947
- Camberwell, London, England, UK
Died
- June 15, 2018
- Kensington, London, England, UK(lung cancer)
Spouse
- Jane Laurie1981 - 2013 (divorced, 3 children)
Children
- Daniel Laurie
Other works
He acted in the play, "Rick's Bar 'Casablanca,'" at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent, England with Shelley Thompson, Edward De Souza, and Ken Bones in the cast.
Publicity listings
- 3 Interviews
- 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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Trivia
Like his character Colonel Mustard in the fourth season of Cluedo (1990), Grantham was a convicted murderer. While he was in the army, he shot West German taxi driver Felix Reese in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony on December 3, 1966, in the back of the head while attempting to rob him. He was convicted of murder in 1967 and sentenced to life imprisonment but only served ten years. While at Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire, he met Louise Jameson who was working as a prison visitor in her spare time. She persuaded him to become an actor.