Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Jeffries

June 10, 1926 · 100 years old

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lionel Jeffries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Known For

34 titles
1
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968 · 2h 24m · Movie

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.

7.0
2
Lust for Life

Lust for Life

1956 · 2h 2m · Movie

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

7.3
3
The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955 · 1h 18m · Movie

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

6.6
4
Camelot

Camelot

1967 · 2h 59m · Movie

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of the illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "Round Table" of...

6.6
5
The Revenge of Frankenstein

The Revenge of Frankenstein

1958 · 1h 30m · Movie

Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.

6.7
6
Murder Ahoy

Murder Ahoy

1964 · 1h 33m · Movie

After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

7.0
7
First Men in the Moon

First Men in the Moon

1964 · 1h 43m · Movie

When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.

6.5
8
The Railway Children

The Railway Children

1970 · 1h 49m · Movie

After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.

7.3
9
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

1958 · 2h 15m · Movie

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.

7.1
10
The Long Ships

The Long Ships

1964 · 2h 6m · Movie

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

6.0
11
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

1955 · 1h 34m · Movie

Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".

6.9
12
The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady

1962 · 2h 3m · Movie

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

6.7
13
Two Way Stretch

Two Way Stretch

1960 · 1h 18m · Movie

While in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.

6.8
14
The Wrong Arm of the Law

The Wrong Arm of the Law

1963 · 1h 34m · Movie

In London, Australian gangsters disguised as Bobbies rob the local criminals, making the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to "normal".

6.7
15
Royal Flash

Royal Flash

1975 · 1h 42m · Movie

Ne'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.

6.3
16
Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction

1956 · 1h 50m · Movie

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

6.4
17
Danny the Champion of the World

Danny the Champion of the World

1989 · 1h 39m · Movie

In the beginning, the poachers were hunted all the pheasants for food.

6.7
18
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957 · 1h 26m · Movie

The girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.

6.4
19
The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

1979 · 1h 48m · Movie

In order to save King Rudolph of Ruritania from assassins and murderous usurpers, the kingdom hires a look-a-like London cabby to impersonate the Monarch.

5.2
20
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960 · 2h 3m · Movie

A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.

7.1
21
London Affair

London Affair

1970 · 1h 38m · Movie

A 38-year-old American writer of pornographic novels discovers the difficulties of being married to a 16-year-old British schoolgirl.

5.3
22
Those Fantastic Flying Fools

Those Fantastic Flying Fools

1967 · 1h 35m · Movie

In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a people-filled projectile to the Moon, but spies and saboteurs endanger the project.

5.3
23
A Chorus of Disapproval

A Chorus of Disapproval

1989 · 1h 32m · Movie

Widower Guy is transferred to an English coastal town, where he joins an amateur operatic society to "meet people" and "have fun".

5.6
24
Nowhere to Go

Nowhere to Go

1958 · 1h 29m · Movie

In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.

6.8
25
Call Me Bwana

Call Me Bwana

1963 · 1h 33m · Movie

A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on femi...

5.3
26
Sudden Terror

Sudden Terror

1970 · 1h 32m · Movie

Witnessing an assassination, a boy claims the assassins are hunting him. With his older sister, the pair escape numerous attacks and are aided by their grandfather and a resourceful young bystander even under the spectre of martia...

6.1
27
Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill

1958 · 1h 33m · Movie

American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

7.1
28
The Truth About Spring

The Truth About Spring

1965 · 1h 42m · Movie

During the 1960s, a Caribbean sailor and his tomboy daughter search for buried treasure but run into unsavory characters and a cute lawyer who's after romance.

6.4
29
The Crimson Blade

The Crimson Blade

1963 · 1h 23m · Movie

In 1648, during the English Civil War, Captain Sylvester switches sides between the Parliamentary and Royalist camps as his interests dictate, while King Charles I is on the run from Oliver Cromwell's troops.

5.6
30
Please Turn Over

Please Turn Over

1959 · 1h 27m · Movie

The orderly suburban life of a 1950s English town is turned on its head when the teenage daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see t...

6.3
31
You Must Be Joking!

You Must Be Joking!

1965 · 1h 40m · Movie

A motley group of soldiers are set loose in swinging London in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.

5.9
32
Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask

1958 · 1h 39m · Movie

Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.

6.1
33
Idol on Parade

Idol on Parade

1959 · 1h 28m · Movie

A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

5.6
34
Jazz Boat

Jazz Boat

1960 · 1h 36m · Movie

An electrician is summoned to assist a gang in a big robbery.

5.7