Sarony was born in
Surbiton,
Surrey, England, He was christened as Leslie Legge Tate Frye at the
Church of St Mary the Virgin,
Twickenham, on 5 May 1898. He began his stage career aged 14, with the group Park Eton's Boys. His stage credits after the war included revues, pantomimes and musicals, including the London productions of
Show Boat and
Rio Rita. including several with
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra. He teamed up with Leslie Holmes (14 December 1901 - 28 December 1960) in 1933 under the name 'The Two Leslies'. Sarony continued to perform into his eighties, moving on to television and films. In the 1970s, he appeared in such programmes as the
Harry Worth Show,
Crossroads,
Z-Cars,
The Good Old Days, and
The Liberace Show, as well as the
sitcom Nearest and Dearest. He appeared in the first episode of police drama
The Sweeney ("Ringer", 1975) as a police informant known as 'Soldier'. He took over from Bert Palmer as the senile Uncle Staveley ("I heard that! Pardon?") in the fourth and final series of ''
I Didn't Know You Cared in 1979. In 1983, Sarony appeared as one of the many elderly insurance clerks in The Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life''. He died in London, aged 88. His sons are Neville Sarony
KC, a
barrister and author
(The Dharma Expedient) in
Hong Kong; Peter Sarony, a successful
gunsmith with a business in London; and Paul Sarony, an independent
film producer (
Mrs Brown,
Hideous Kinky,
Shine). ==Selected filmography==