Lionel Jeffries

**Lionel Charles Jeffries** (10. jun 1926 – 19. februar 2010) bio je britanski glumac, filmski scenarist i režiser. Glumačku karijeru je započeo nakon drugog svjetskog rata, gdje je kao pripadnik britanske vojske služio u Burmi 1945. Obrazovao se na RADA-i, poslije čega je nastupao na kazalištu, otkrivši talent za komične uloge. Relativno rano je oćelavio, a što je nastojao iskoristiti tako što je tumačio likove u pravilu mnogo starije od sebe. Poslije se bavio i režijom, te je 1970. snimio izuzetno popularni dječji film *[[The Railway Children (film)|The Railway Children]]*. 1980-ih je nastupio kao jedan od tri protagonista televizijskog sitkoma *[[Tom, Dick and Harriet]]*.

## Izabrana filmografija
### kao glumac

* *[[Stage Fright (film)|Stage Fright]]* (1950)
* *[[Will Any Gentleman...?]]* (1953)
* *[[The Black Rider (film)|The Black Rider]]* (1954)
* *[[Windfall (1955 film)|Windfall]]* (1955)
* *[[The Colditz Story]]* (1955)
* *[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]* (1955)
* *[[No Smoking (1955 film)|No Smoking]]* (1955)
* *[[All for Mary]]* (1955)
* *[[Bhowani Junction (film)|Bhowani Junction]]* (1956)
* *[[Jumping for Joy]]* (1956)
* *[[Up in the World]]* (1956)
* *[[The Baby and the Battleship]]* (1956)
* *[[Eyewitness (1956 film)|Eyewitness]]* (1956)
* *[[Lust for Life (film)|Lust for Life]]* (1957)
* *[[High Terrace]]* (1956)
* *[[Hour of Decision (film)|Hour of Decision]]* (1957)
* *[[Doctor at Large (film)|Doctor at Large]]* (1957)
* *[[The Vicious Circle (1957 film)|The Vicious Circle]]* (1957)
* *[[Man in the Sky]]* (1957)
* *[[Blue Murder at St Trinian's]]* (1957)
* *[[Barnacle Bill (1957 film)|Barnacle Bill]]* (1957)
* *[[Dunkirk (film, 1958)|Dunkirk]]* (1958)
* *[[Up the Creek (1958 film)|Up the Creek]]* (1958)
* *[[The Revenge of Frankenstein]]* (1958)
* *[[Law and Disorder (1958 film)|Law and Disorder]]* (1958)
* *[[Orders to Kill]]* (1958)
* *[[Behind the Mask (1958 film)|Behind the Mask]]* (1958)
* *[[Further up the Creek]]* (1958)
* *[[Girls at Sea (1958 film)|Girls at Sea]]* (1958)
* *[[Nowhere to Go (1958 film)|Nowhere to Go]]* (1958)
* *[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]* (1959)
* *[[Please Turn Over]]* (1959)
* *[[Bobbikins]]* (1959)
* *[[Idle on Parade]]* (1959)
* *[[Jazz Boat]]* (1960)
* *[[Life Is a Circus (1960 film)|Life is a Circus]]* (1960)

* *[[Let's Get Married (1960 film)|Let's Get Married]]* (1960)
* *[[Two-Way Stretch]]* (1960)
* *[[Tarzan the Magnificent]]* (1960)
* *[[The Trials of Oscar Wilde]]* (1960)
* *[[The Hellions (film)|The Hellions]]* (1961)
* *[[Fanny (1961 film)|Fanny]]* (1961)
* *[[Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (film)|Mrs. Gibbon's Boys]]* (1962)
* *[[Operation Snatch]]* (1962)
* *[[The Notorious Landlady]]* (1962)
* *[[Kill or Cure (1962 film)|Kill or Cure]]* (1962)
* *[[The Wrong Arm of the Law]]* (1963)
* *[[The Scarlet Blade]]* (1963)
* *[[Call me Bwana]]* (1963)
* *[[Murder Ahoy!]]* (1964)
* *[[The Long Ships (film)|The Long Ships]]* (1964)
* *[[The Truth About Spring]]* (1964)
* *[[First Men in the Moon (1964 film)|First Men in the Moon]]* (1964)
* *[[You Must Be Joking! (1965 film)|You Must Be Joking!]]* (1965)
* *[[The Secret of My Success (1965 film)|The Secret of My Success]]* (1965)
* *[[The Spy with a Cold Nose]]* (1966)
* *[[Drop Dead Darling]]* (1966)
* *[[Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon]]* (1967)
* *[[Camelot (film)|Camelot]]* (1967)
* *[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]* (1968)
* *[[12 + 1]]* (1969)
* *[[Twinky (film)|Twinky]]* (1969)
* *[[Eyewitness (1970 film)|Eyewitness]]* (1970)
* *[[Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?]]* (1971)
* *[[What Changed Charley Farthing?]]* (1974)
* *[[Royal Flash (film)|Royal Flash]]* (1975)
* *[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1979 film)|The Prisoner of Zenda]]* (1979)
* Cream in My Coffee television drama (1980)
* *[[Better Late Than Never (film)|Better Late Than Never]]* (1982)
* * [[Tom, Dick and Harriet|Tom, Dick and Harriet (TV serija)]]* (1982–83)
* *[[A Chorus of Disapproval]]* (1988)
* *[[Abel's Island (animated film)|Abel's Island]]* (1988)
* *[[Danny, the Champion of the World (film)|Danny, the Champion of the World]]* (1989)

### Kao scenarist/režiser
* *[[The Railway Children (film)|The Railway Children]]* (1970)
* *[[Baxter!]]* (1972)
* *[[The Amazing Mr Blunden]]* (1972)
* *[[Wombling Free]]* (1977)
* *[[The Water Babies (film)|The Water Babies]]* (1978)

## References

## Vanjske veze
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* Lionel Jeffries - Daily Telegraph obituary
* Lionel Jeffries  - Times obituary