Leslie Fuller (9 October 1888 – 24 April 1948) was a British comedy film actor. Early life Albert Leslie Fuller was born in 1888 at 14 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London. His father was Albert Fuller and his mother was Amelia Lipley. In 1891 his father was running a coffee house, but by 1901 he was a self-employed printer. As a boy, Leslie would help his father in the business. Career Stage From an early age Fuller became obsessed with show business, and started performing in a small schoolboy minstrel troupe. With a voice of sorts (he described himself as a "bad baritone"), and with a repertoire of only three songs, he joined a troupe playing on Brighton beach. He then moved on to join a troupe in Maidenhead, playing in a small marquee by the river and during the regatta on the river itself in a small punt. Between 1909 and 1912 both Leslie and Dave Fuller performed in "The Silloth Pierrots" at Silloth, Cumberland. In 1914 at the end of a summer season in Weston-super-Mare, Fuller married one of his fellow entertainers, the 26-year-old dancer and male impersonator Beatrice Witham. He was also a keen cyclist, and held various cycling records. On the outbreak of the First World War, he became a second-lieutenant in the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion. When his show business talents were discovered he was asked to form a battalion concert party. There were many men in the battalion with talent, including Charles Laughton, and the concert party was a great success. Fuller became one of the leading comedians on the British Army concert party circuit. The cyclists' battalion came in for a lot of ribbing and was dubbed the "poor man's cavalry" or the "peddallers", and so the troupe adopted the name "The Ped'lers". They gave some successful performances at the Coliseum Theatre in Whitby, Yorkshire, and for a while Fuller became lessee of the theatre. On demobilisation he acquired all the rights and property of the concert party and, retaining some of its wartime members, started up his own venture. His wife Beatrice was a talented clothes designer and seamstress, and together they set about putting the Ped'lers onto a commercial footing. They arrived in Margate, Kent, for the summer season in 1919, playing to appreciative audiences at the Clifton Hall, attached to the Baths. The couple moved into 25, Cliftonville Avenue and had