John Le Mesurier

1912-1983

Biography: life and films

John Le Mesurier was an English actor whose birth name was John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley. He was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK on 5th April 1912 and died in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK on 15th November 1983, aged 71.

His best films as an actor include Max Varnel's comedy Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962), Val Guest's Where the Spies Are (1965), Norman Cohen's Dad's Army (1971) and Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (1977).

John Le Mesurier appeared in 110 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Val Guest (5 films), Roy Boulting (4), John Guillermin (4), John Gilling (4), Robert Asher (3), Ralph Thomas (3), John Harlow (3), Herbert Wilcox (3), Cyril Frankel (3), Charles Saunders (3), Peter Graham Scott (2), Norman Cohen (2), Montgomery Tully (2), Michael Anderson (2), Mario Zampi (2), Ken Annakin (2), John Boulting (2) and Jay Lewis (2).

His most frequent genres include: comedy (69 films), drama (26), Thriller (7), Horror (7), crime-thriller (5), comedy-drama (5), War (5), comedy-romance (4), Fantasy (4), romance (3), comedy-thriller (3) and history (2).

Our average rating for John Le Mesurier over all films is: 2.7

Filmography

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A Matter of Murder (1949) [a]

Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949) [a]

Dark Interval (1950) [a]

The Small Miracle (1951) [a]

Blind Man's Bluff (1952) [a]

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) [a]

Black 13 (1953) [a]

The Blue Parrot (1953) [a]

Beautiful Stranger (1954) [a]

Dangerous Cargo (1954) [a]

Make Me an Offer (1954) [a]

Stranger from Venus (1954) [a]

A Time to Kill (1955) [a]

Josephine and Men (1955) [a]

Police Dog (1955) [a]

Private's Progress (1956) [a]

The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]

Brothers in Law (1957) [a]

High Flight (1957) [a]

The Admirable Crichton (1957) [a]

These Dangerous Years (1957) [a]

Another Time, Another Place (1958) [a]

Blind Spot (1958) [a]

Blood of the Vampire (1958) [a]

Happy Is the Bride (1958) [a]

I Was Monty's Double (1958) [a]

Law and Disorder (1958) [a]

Man with a Gun (1958) [a]

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) [a]

The Moonraker (1958) [a]

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) [a]

Desert Mice (1959) [a]

Follow a Star (1959) [a]

I'm All Right Jack (1959) [a]

Jack the Ripper (1959) [a]

Operation Amsterdam (1959) [a]

Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) [a]

The Captain's Table (1959) [a]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) [a]

The Lady Is a Square (1959) [a]

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) [a]

Too Many Crooks (1959) [a]

Dead Lucky (1960) [a]

Doctor in Love (1960) [a]

Let's Get Married (1960) [a]

Never Let Go (1960) [a]

School for Scoundrels (1960) [a]

The Bulldog Breed (1960) [a]

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) [a]

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) [a]

Don't Bother to Knock (1961) [a]

Five Golden Hours (1961) [a]

Invasion Quartet (1961) [a]

Mr. Topaze (1961) [a]

On the Fiddle (1961) [a]

The Night We Got the Bird (1961) [a]

The Rebel (1961) [a]

Very Important Person (1961) [a]

Go to Blazes (1962) [a]

Hair of the Dog (1962) [a]

Jigsaw (1962) [a]

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962) [a]

Only Two Can Play (1962) [a]

The Main Attraction (1962) [a]

Village of Daughters (1962) [a]

Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) [a]

We Joined the Navy (1962) [a]

In the Cool of the Day (1963) [a]

The Mouse on the Moon (1963) [a]

The Pink Panther (1963) [a]

The Punch and Judy Man (1963) [a]

The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) [a]

Hot Enough for June (1964) [a]

Never Put It in Writing (1964) [a]

The Moon-Spinners (1964) [a]

Masquerade (1965) [a]

The City Under the Sea (1965) [a]

The Early Bird (1965) [a]

The Liquidator (1965) [a]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) [a]

Where the Spies Are (1965) [a]

Eye of the Devil (1966) [a]

Finders Keepers (1966) [a]

Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) [a]

The Sandwich Man (1966) [a]

Cuckoo Patrol (1967) [a]

La Vingt-cinquième heure (1967) [a]

Mister Ten Per Cent (1967) [a]

Salt and Pepper (1968) [a]

Midas Run (1969) [a]

The Italian Job (1969) [a]

Doctor in Trouble (1970) [a]

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) [a]

Dad's Army (1971) [a]

Au Pair Girls (1972) [a]

The Alf Garnett Saga (1972) [a]

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974) [a]

Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) [a]

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) [a]

Three for All (1975) [a]

Jabberwocky (1977) [a]

Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) [a]

What's Up Nurse! (1977) [a]

Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978) [a]

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) [a]

The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979) [a]

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) [a]

The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) [a]

Facelift (1984) [a]



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