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Lionel Jeffries
10 June 1926
Lionel Jeffries played in 10 and created 2 movies in the Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Musical, Family, Thriller, Mystery, Animation genres.
Lionel Jeffries got succeed with average imdb rating 9.2.
Lantern-jawed, mustachioed, phlegmatic British actor Lionel Jeffries was trained at RADA following military repair. In films from 1949, Jeffries hit his stride in the 1960s, playing a variety of bootless cops, bumbling bureaucrats, petty criminals and away-minded professors. He was shown to best betterment in such films as Imperfect Arm of the Law (1962) Key Men in the Moon (1963) and Check out with a Cold Nose (1966).
He was also adept at more sedate-sided characterizations, su
... ch as the Marquis of Queensbury in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960). In 1971, Lionel Jeffries turned to directing with The Rail Children, the first of individual efforts aimed at the kith and kin trade: his other directorial assignments in this vein comprise Baxter (1972) The Dazzling Mr. Blunden (1972), The Freely Babies (1978) and Wombling Free (1978).Read more Less
