Lionel Jeffries
Birthday: 10 June 1926, Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Birth Name: Lionel Charles Jeffries
Height: 178 cm
With his firm jawline and bristling mustache, Lionel Jeffries played a nice line of English eccentrics. This belied his RADA training. Following military service in WWII, he played his major roles - everything from Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) to the Marquis of Queensberry in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - in the 1960s.His su...
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With his firm jawline and bristling mustache, Lionel Jeffries played a nice line of English eccentrics. This belied his RADA training. Following military service in WWII, he played his major roles - everything from Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) to the Marquis of Queensberry in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - in the 1960s.His surprisingly brief career as a director included the highly popular family films The Railway Children (1970) and The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972). Show less «
[on The Colditz Story (1955)] I went to the cast meeting with holes in my shoes, but I was given the...Show more »
[on The Colditz Story (1955)] I went to the cast meeting with holes in my shoes, but I was given the third lead to Eric Portman and John Mills. Show less «
I was the only bald student at RADA. Of course I was upset. Tried a toupee once, but it looked like ...Show more »
I was the only bald student at RADA. Of course I was upset. Tried a toupee once, but it looked like a dead moth on a boiled egg. Show less «
I was constantly rewriting the words of the comedy characters I was given to bring them a comic huma...Show more »
I was constantly rewriting the words of the comedy characters I was given to bring them a comic humanity. Most of the people I played were caught in desperation. In their hearts they knew that they were failures - but they would never admit it, even to themselves. Show less «
No one wants family entertainment any more. They want explicit sex.
No one wants family entertainment any more. They want explicit sex.
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...
