Lionel Jeffries

Lioniel Jeffries (born 10 June 1926 in London) is a British actor and film director. He trained at RADA after his World War II service, and built a successful career mainly in comic character roles in British films. His acting career reached a peak in the 1960s in films like Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), First Men in the Moon (1964), Camelot (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

Selected films

As actor:

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• The Colditz Story (1955)
• The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
• Bhowani Junction (1956)
• Lust for Life (1956)
• Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957)
• Vicious Circle (1957)
• Doctor at Large (1957)
• Dunkirk (1958)
• Up the Creek (1958)
• Orders to Kill (1958)
• Law and Disorder (1958)
• The Nun's Story (1959)
• Idle on Parade (1959)
• Two-Way Stretch (1960)
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
• The Notorious Landlady (1962)
• The Long Ships (1963)
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
• The Scarlet Blade (1963)
• First Men in the Moon (1964)
• You Must be Joking! (1965)
• The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
• Rocket to the Moon (1967)
• Camelot (1967)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• Eyewitness (1970)
• Royal Flash (1975)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
• A Chorus of Disapproval (1988)

As writer-director:

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• The Railway Children (1970)
• Baxter! (1972)
• The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)
• Wombling Free (1977)
• The Water Babies (1978)