Biography: life and films
Lionel Jeffries was an English actor, screenwriter and film director. He was born in Forest Hill, London, England on 10th June 1926 and died in Poole, Dorset, England on 19th February 2010, aged 83.His best films as an actor include Guy Hamilton's The Colditz Story (1955), John Gilling's comedy Idle on Parade (1959), Cliff Owen's The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963), Nathan Juran's First Men in the Moon (1964) and Richard Thorpe's The Truth About Spring (1964), and whose best work as a film director include The Railway Children (1970), The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) and The Water Babies (1978).
Lionel Jeffries appeared in 69 films, directed 5 films and scripted 4 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Val Guest (4 films), Robert Day (4), Ken Hughes (4), Richard Quine (3), John Gilling (3), Henry Cass (3), Michael Winner (2), Joshua Logan (2), John Paddy Carstairs (2), Gerald Thomas (2), George Pollock (2) and Charles Crichton (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (40 films), drama (15), Thriller (7), romance (5), comedy-drama (4), Fantasy (4), War (3), Horror (3), crime-thriller (2), comedy-romance (2), Biography (2) and Animation (2).
Our average rating for Lionel Jeffries over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Will Any Gentleman...? (1953) [a]
All for Mary (1955) [a]
No Smoking (1955) [a]
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) [a]
Windfall (1955) [a]
Bhowani Junction (1956) [a]
High Terrace (1956) [a]
Jumping for Joy (1956) [a]
The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]
Barnacle Bill (1957) [a]
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) [a]
Doctor at Large (1957) [a]
Hour of Decision (1957) [a]
The Man in the Sky (1957) [a]
Behind the Mask (1958) [a]
Further Up the Creek (1958) [a]
Girls at Sea (1958) [a]
Law and Disorder (1958) [a]
Nowhere to Go (1958) [a]
Orders to Kill (1958) [a]
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) [a]
Up the Creek (1958) [a]
Bobbikins (1959) [a]
Idle on Parade (1959) [a]
Please Turn Over (1959) [a]
Jazz Boat (1960) [a]
Let's Get Married (1960) [a]
Life Is a Circus (1960) [a]
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) [a]
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) [a]
Fanny (1961) [a]
The Hellions (1961) [a]
Kill or Cure (1962) [a]
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962) [a]
Operation Snatch (1962) [a]
The Notorious Landlady (1962) [a]
Call Me Bwana (1963) [a]
The Scarlet Blade (1963) [a]
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) [a]
First Men in the Moon (1964) [a]
The Long Ships (1964) [a]
The Truth About Spring (1964) [a]
The Secret of My Success (1965) [a]
You Must Be Joking! (1965) [a]
Drop Dead Darling (1966) [a]
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) [a]
Camelot (1967) [a]
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967) [a]
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967) [a]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) [a]
12 + 1 (1969) [a]
Twinky (1969) [a]
Eyewitness (1970) [a]
The Railway Children (1970) [d,w]
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) [a]
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) [d,w]
Baxter! (1973) [d]
What Changed Charley Farthing? (1974) [a]
Royal Flash (1975) [a]
Wombling Free (1977) [d,w]
The Water Babies (1978) [d,w]
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) [a]
Better Late Than Never (1982) [a]
A Chorus of Disapproval (1988) [a]
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
The silent era of French cinema
