Desmond Leslie
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British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician
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- Gray Barker's Book of Adamski
- ha-Tsalaḥot ha-meʻofefot naḥatu
- The amazing Mr. Lutterworth
- Angels weep / by Desmond Leslie
- Careless lives
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Desmond Arthur Peter Leslie (29 June 1921, County Monaghan, Ireland – 21 February 2001, Antibes, France) was a British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician, of English, Irish and Scottish descent. He was the younger son, and youngest child, of Shane Leslie, and his wife Marjorie (nee Ide) Leslie. His father was a first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. During his lifetime he served as a Spitfire pilot in the RAF during World War II, became one of the first pioneers of electric music <a href="
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Antibes
- Father
- Shane Leslie
- Occupation
- screenwriter
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- date of death
- 2001-02-24
- date of birth
- 1921-06-29
- cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- P12749
- Stezhera
- manner of death
- natural causes
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