two sons, Roy and Donald. By the 1930s Fuller had become well known as "The rubber-faced comedian", and spent his summer seasons in Margate. In the winter he and the Margate Ped'lers toured the Oswald Stoll theatre circuit, including, in London, The Coliseum and The Alhambra. He also appeared in radio programmes. Film Fuller was becoming noticed, and was offered a part in a film by producer Joe Rock, who had produced some of Stan Laurel's comedies. This was the start of his film career and he went on make around 26 films between 1930 and 1945, many of them "quota quickies". He leased the old Neptune Studios at Elstree and produced his own movies under the name "Leslie Fuller Pictures Ltd". In 1930, just as his film career had taken off, his wife Beatrice, who had been ill for about two years, died. Fuller continued to work, and while he was filming The Pride of the Force in 1932, he met his second wife, Anne ("Nan") Bates, who was appearing as a bare-back elephant rider in a circus. She had appeared in concert parties doing tap routines together with her sisters Helen and Cecilia and her brother John, so had much in common with Leslie. They married and bought a house in Teddington, Middlesex and became the parents of twin girls, Anne & Sheila, whose godparents were Renee Houston and Gracie Fields. With the outbreak of the Second World War, fewer films were made, and Fuller's style of comedy was beginning to date. In 1945 he made one last film, What Do We Do Now?, in which he only had a minor role supporting another comedian, George Moon. Later life and death Fuller sold up his Teddington house and moved back to Margate, taking up residence at 20 Cornwall Gardens. In 1945 he stood for and was elected as an independent councillor for the Cliftonville Ward. He busied himself in local affairs, and often turned out to play in charity cricket matches. He successfully revived the Ped'lers again for the 1946 summer season at the Lido Theatre, Cliftonville. Fuller died at home in 1948 aged 59 after a suffering a severe brain haemorrhage. He is buried at Margate Cemetery. After his death, his wife sold the Margate home and moved back to London. Reputation In his heyday in the 1930s, Fuller was a major celebrity with a considerable following.