English actor is best known for playing Romeo in the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film Romeo and Juliet. He also portrayed Victor Frankenstein in NBC’s Frankenstein: The True Story. In 2015, he appeared with Romeo & Juliet costar Olivia Hussey for the film Social Suicide. Leonard Whiting was born on June 30, 1950, in England. His singing caught the attention of musician Alan Parsons, who featured Whiting’s vocals on the song “The Raven.” He was scouted by an agent at age 12 at a recording studio and given an audition for the musical Oliver! Scroll below and check our most recent updates about Leonard Whiting Net Worth, Salary, Biography, Age, Career, Wiki. Also discover more detailed information about Current Net worth as well as Monthly/Year Salary, Expense, Income Reports!

His first marriage to Cathee Dahmen lasted from 1971 to 1977. He has two daughters named Sarah and Charlotte. He has not shared about He’s parent’s name. We will update Family, Sibling, Spouse, and Children’s information. Right now, we don’t have much information about Education Life.

Leonard Whiting Career

Whiting had some success as a child singer, winning a Butlin’s Talent Contest held in the Gaiety Theatre at the holiday camp.

His father set this up to get him noticed. After hearing him sing, the agent suggested he audition for Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, which was always in need of replacements for its child actors.

Whiting appeared for 15 months as the Artful Dodger in the long-running London musical, and for 13 months in 1965–1966 opposite Laurence Olivier in the production of William Congreve’s Love for Love, which toured Moscow and Berlin.

“He has a magnificent face, gentle melancholy, sweet, the kind of idealistic young man Romeo ought to be,” director Franco Zeffirelli said of his discovery among 300 young people who auditioned over a three-month period.

In the mid-1970s, his voice drew the attention of Abbey Road and The Dark Side of the Moon engineer Alan Parsons, who was in the process of recording Tales of Mystery and Imagination, the Alan Parsons Project’s debut album.

Whiting sang lead vocals on the song “The Raven,” and he also introduced the five-part musical rendition of The Fall of the House of Usher on the original 1976 album, which was then replaced by Orson Welles on the 1987 remixed version.
Whiting played the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at London’s Westminster Theatre from November 27 to January 17, 1979. This was a Ken Hill production.

Whiting voiced Urpney scientist Urpgor in the children’s animated television series The Dreamstone in 1990. After three seasons as the character’s voice, he was replaced by Colin Marsh for the fourth and final season.
In 2014, he reunited with Olivia Hussey for the film Social Suicide (2015), their first collaboration in 46 years.

He won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for his role in Romeo and Juliet.

Leonard Whiting Relationship

Whiting married model Cathee Dahmen in 1971. Sarah Beth Whiting, their daughter born in 1972, died in 2014.

Whiting had a relationship with Valerie Tobin after his divorce from Dahmen in 1977, and she gave birth to their daughter Charlotte.

Charlotte has publicly stated that she did not meet her father until she was 12 years old, by which time she had adopted her stepfather’s surname Westenra, whom her mother had married in 1982.

Charlotte Westenra went on to become a theatre director.

Whiting married his assistant, Lynn Presser, in 1995. Whiting’s film career ended, for the most part, in the mid-1970s, and he subsequently focused on his theatrical career as an actor and writer.

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