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Leslie Grade (1916-1979) was a British talent agent and executive with The Grade Organisation. He was born Laszlo (or Lazarus) Winogradsky in Tokmak, Ukraine. Along with his brothers Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont, he became a leading figure in theatre management.
His son Michael Grade became a successful television executive, who was eventually Chairman of ITV. He had two children by his second marriage, to Audrey Smith, Anita Grade (now Anita Land), a theatrical agent and Antony Grade, head of exterior design for Renault. Grade was for many years a Director of Leyton Orient Football Club along with his friend Harry Zussman. Leslie Grade suffered a major stroke, which disrupted his career in middle age and he died in 1979.
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