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Lionel Jeffries
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Lionel Jeffries

English actor, screenwriter and film director
June 10, 1926 (February 19, 2010)
G.-B. 1998. Drama by Stuart Orme with Neil Pearson, Geraldine Somerville, Lionel Jeffries. Overwhelmed by professional and marital problems, a man takes his small family to live in a religious community, where he becomes a fanatical leader.
G.-B. 1980. Dramatic comedy by Gavin Millar with Peggy Ashcroft, Lionel Jeffries, Shelagh McLeod.
Runtime: 91 min.
G.-B. 1979. Musical by Lionel Jeffries with James Mason, Billie Whitelaw, Tommy Pender.
Runtime: 92 min.
Runtime: 108 min.

The Bananas Boat

V.O.: What Changed Charley Farthing
G.-B. 1974. Comedy by Sidney Hayers with Doug McClure, Hayley Mills, Lionel Jeffries. Various circumstances lead an adventurous sailor to take command of a cargo ship whose owner is smuggling weapons.
Runtime: 109 min.
G.-B. 1972. Psychological drama by Lionel Jeffries with Scott Jacoby, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Patricia Neal. The young son of separated spouses has a speech impediment, a symptom of serious psychological problems.
Runtime: 102 min.
G.-B. 1972. Fantasy comedy by Lionel Jeffries with Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller. A debonair ghost comes to the aid of orphans.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1970. Crime drama by John Hough with Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George. A child who witnesses a murder is chased by a sadistic criminal.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1970. Dramatic comedy by Lionel Jeffries with Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett. Following the arrest of their father on a false charge, three children must move to the country with their mother.
Runtime: 108 min.

Twelve Plus One

V.O.: 12 + 1
It. 1969. Comedy by Nicolas Gessner with Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Welles. A hairdresser seeks to find a treasure hidden in the seat of a chair that was sold to an antique dealer.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1967. Musical by Joshua Logan with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero. At the court of Camelot in medieval Brittany, Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, falls in love with Lancelot, his knight in shining armor.
Runtime: 179 min.
G.-B. 1966. Comedy by Ken Hughes with Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries. A knight of industry seeks to make his fortune by marrying rich women whose deaths he hastened.
Runtime: 98 min.
G.-B. 1966. Comedy by Daniel Petrie with Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi. The secret service places a microphone in the skin of a dog offered to the U.S.S.R. prime minister.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1965. Comedy by Andrew L. Stone with James Booth, Lionel Jeffries, Honor Blackman. A naive police officer who becomes complicit in wrongdoing, benefits from his mother's clever interventions.
Runtime: 102 min.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1964. Science-fiction by Nathan Juran with Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer. An old English tells the story of how, in 1899, he went to the moon in a curious device designed by an eccentric scientist.
Runtime: 103 min.
G.-B. 1964. Police comedy by George Pollock with Margaret Rutherford, Charles Tingwell, Lionel Jeffries. A cigarette seller, the wife of an industrialist and a call girl has various lovers.
Runtime: 93 min.
G.-B. 1963. Police comedy by Cliff Owen with Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Nanette Newman. London thieves collude with Scotland Yard to have a rival gang arrested.
Runtime: 94 min.
G.-B. 1962. Comedy by Max Varnel with Kathleen Harrison, Lionel Jeffries, Diana Dors.
Runtime: 80 min.
G.-B. 1962. Police comedy by George Pollock with Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Lionel Jeffries. A detective moves into a convalescence home to investigate the murder of an elderly woman.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1961. Police comedy by Robert Day with Peter Sellers, Wilfrid White, Lionel Jeffries. Three prisoners escape to carry out a robbery and then return to prison to secure an alibi.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1961. Comedy by Robert Day with Terry-Thomas, George Sanders, Lionel Jeffries. In Gibraltar, during the war, an officer is entrusted with the custody of a colony of monkeys.
Runtime: 87 min.
U.S. 1961. Dramatic comedy by Joshua Logan with Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Horst Buchholz. A boy attracted by the sea embarks on a long cruise leaving his pregnant girlfriend behind.
Runtime: 133 min.
G.-B. 1961. Adventures by Ken Annakin with James Uys, Richard Todd, Lionel Jeffries. In South Africa, a police officer has to face a family of bandits alone.
Runtime: 85 min.
G.-B. 1959. Musical by John Gilling with Anthony Newley, William Bendix, Lionel Jeffries. A rock singer must do his military service.
Runtime: 80 min.
G.-B. 1958. Horror by Terence Fisher with Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson. A scientist mutilates patients in a hospital in order to use their limbs to create a new human body and give it life.
Runtime: 89 min.
G.-B. 1958. Drama by Anthony Asquith with Paul Massie, Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish. An American officer in charge of executing a French agent questions the victim?s guilt.
Runtime: 112 min.
G.-B. 1957. Drama by Charles Crichton with Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Walter Fitzgerald. A pilot manages to rescue a damaged aircraft during its test flight.
Runtime: 87 min.
G.-B. 1955. Science-fiction by Val Guest with Jack Warner, Brian Donlevy, Margia Dean. A rocket returns to Earth with only one of its three passengers, who underwent disturbing transformations.
Runtime: 82 min.

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