Lionel Jeffries (1926 - 2010)
English actor| * | June 10, 1926 London | |
| as Lionel Charles Jeffries | ||
| † | February 19, 2010 Poole, England |
After service in World War II, Jeffries attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1950 he made his screen debut in Hitchcock’s Stage Fright, but it was comedy where Jeffries made his career.
Bald from an young age and with a heavy moustache he often played characters older than himself, such as the father of Dick Van Dyke, in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), although Jeffries was actually six months younger than Van Dyke.
His characteristic presence made him an rememberable actor, even in smaller roles. After leading roles in Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), First Men in the Moon (1964) and Camelot (1967), Jeffries started a small directing career in the 70’s. Most notable results were The Railway Children and The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Jeffries died 9 years after his retirement from acting in 2001 in a nursing home in Poole on 19 February 2010.
Bald from an young age and with a heavy moustache he often played characters older than himself, such as the father of Dick Van Dyke, in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), although Jeffries was actually six months younger than Van Dyke.
His characteristic presence made him an rememberable actor, even in smaller roles. After leading roles in Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), First Men in the Moon (1964) and Camelot (1967), Jeffries started a small directing career in the 70’s. Most notable results were The Railway Children and The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Jeffries died 9 years after his retirement from acting in 2001 in a nursing home in Poole on 19 February 2010.
Obituaries
| Rainer Heinz, Lionel Jeffries, in: Filmdienst, nr. 8, 2010 pp. 18 |
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Films
1950
Stage Fright
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
The Colditz Story
All for Mary
1956
Lust for Life
Bhowani Junction
The Baby and the Battleship
Eyewitness
1957
Doctor at Large
The Vicious Circle
The Man in the Sky
Barnacle Bill
1958
Behind the Mask
Dunkirk
Up the Creek
Nowhere to Go
The Revenge of Frankenstein
Further Up the Creek
Orders to Kill
Girls at Sea
1959
The Nun's Story
Please Turn Over
Idol on Parade
Bobbikins
1960
Two Way Stretch
Tarzan the Magnificent
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1961
Fanny
1962
The Notorious Landlady
1963
Call Me Bwana
The Wrong Arm of the Law
The Scarlet Blade
1964
The Long Ships
Murder Ahoy
First Men in the Moon
1965
The Truth About Spring
1966
Drop Dead Darling
1967
Camelot
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1968
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1970
The Railway Children
1972
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
1973
Baxter!
1975
Royal Flash
1978
The Water Babies
1979
The Prisoner of Zenda
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
IMDb: 0420383