Profile of Lionel Jeffries on Famous Like Me

Lioniel Jeffries (born June 10, 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).

In the 1970s he turned to writing and directing children's films, including the celebrated 1970 version of The Railway Children. He belongs to the British Catholic Actors Guild, formerly headed by the late actress Patricia Hayes.

Selected films

As actor:

• 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:

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

External link

• Lionel Jeffries at the Internet Movie Database

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