Leonard Fenton – “Bill”

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Leonard Fenton is a British actor, best known for his role as Dr. Harold Legg in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. Fenton originally trained to be a civil engineer at King's 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 and won a scholarship to drama school.

One of his earliest acting breaks came when he was offered a role by Orson Welles in his play Chimes At Midnight. His career in acting spans over fifty years and he continues to act occasionally on television and on stage and has performed numerous radio plays including The Hobbit for BBC Radio.