Dr. Kik....

A great British character actor...glad somebody remembers him!

With the end of the war Genn, who had been awarded the French Croix de Guerre in 1945, went back to law counseling. He volunteered his legal knowledge to the British army unit involved in the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war crimes perpetrated at the Belsen concentration camp near Luneburg, Germany. And in the subsequent tribunals, Genn served as assistant prosecutor.

Leo Genn is terrific in this, as he was in pretty much anything.

For me his most notable role was as Starbuck in "Moby Dick", the epic psychological adventure with Gregory Peck, directed by John Huston. Brilliant stuff.

He was very good-looking as well.

The character Dr. "Kik" is actually based on my grandfather Gerard. He may not have been quite as attractive as he appeared in the film but he was even more charming and lovely then they could even depict.

He had a wonderful voice, didn't he?

So funny, because in the book, Mary Jane Ward repeated mentions his wonderful voice -- that was the thing that first brought her back to herself -- the sensory experience that finally drew thought, sensation, and a perception of time back into her sphere of experience. the casting director clearly had read the book.

While his descendants modestly play down the hotness factor, his attractiveness was also mentioned repeatedly.

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Can't get enough of Dr. Kik (Leo Genn)?
You will swoon and want to be the slave of Giaus Petronius (Genn) in Quo Vadis (1951).
I fell in love with Leo Genn in Quo Vadis....and I carry a torch for him to this very day!