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Leonard Kempinski
Leonard Kempinski is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Emmerdale", played by Bernard Archard. He made his first appearance on 15 December 1992 and remained a regular in the programme for just over a year, before his character was killed off in the Emmerdale plane crash of New Year's Eve 1993.
Storylines.
Leonard came to the village in 1992 as a friend of Amos Brearly (Ronald Magill) that Annie Sugden (Sheila Mercier) met while out visiting Amos in Spain
and Leonard Kempinski (who had only joined the previous year). Five other villagers, who were not characters in the serial, were also killed.
Prelude.
The plane crash was the culmination of several storylines that had been running throughout the latter parts of the soap during 1993. Earlier in the year, Annie Sugden had married Leonard Kempinski and was planning to emigrate with her new husband to Spain. Mark Hughes (Annie's step-grandson) was due to take them, but had borrowed a vacuum cleaner