He was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1992 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the performing arts and community.
He acted in over 15,000 episodes of radio serials.
He acted as Superman/Clark Kent in an Australian children's radio serial in
the mid 1950s.
Leonard Teale was married three times and had four children, Amanda, Juli, Jennifer and Melinda.