Entertainer Rolf Harris has appeared in court charged with nine counts of indecent assault and four of making indecent images of children.
During the brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, the 83-year-old spoke only to answer personal details.
He was bailed and his case was referred to Southwark Crown Court where he is due to appear on 7 October.
Mr Harris was first arrested in March by police investigating historical allegations of child sexual abuse.
Mr Harris, of Bray, Berkshire, was accompanied to court by his wife Alwen.
Six offences relate to the indecent assault of a girl aged 15-16 between 1980 and 1981 and three relate to a girl aged 14 in 1986.
The indecent images of children were alleged to have been made last year.
Mr Harris has been a fixture on British TV screens for more than 40 years, having arrived in the UK from his native Australia in 1952.
He has been honoured in the UK three times, first as a Member of the British Empire in 1968 (MBE), then an OBE in 1977 and in 2006 he was advanced to a CBE.
In June 2012 he was awarded one of Australia's highest honours when he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen's birthday list
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