Bernard Lee

1908-1981

Biography: life and films

Bernard Lee was an English actor. He was born in Brentford, Middlesex, England on 10th January 1908 and died in Hampstead, London, England on 16th January 1981, aged 73.

His best films as an actor include Seth Holt's Nowhere to Go (1958), Jack Cardiff's Beyond This Place (1959), Guy Green's The Angry Silence (1960), Bryan Forbes's Whistle Down the Wind (1961) and Basil Dearden's A Place to Go (1963).

Bernard Lee appeared in 82 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Basil Dearden (7 films), Guy Hamilton (4), Terence Young (3), Roy Ward Baker (3), Marcel Varnel (3), Lewis Gilbert (3), Herbert Wilcox (3), Carol Reed (3), Bryan Forbes (3), Robert Parrish (2), Ralph Thomas (2), Ken Annakin (2), John Gilling (2), Freddie Francis (2) and Don Chaffey (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (46 films), Thriller (20), comedy (11), War (11), Horror (4), romance (3), comedy-drama (3), crime-thriller (2) and comedy-thriller (2).

Our average rating for Bernard Lee over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

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The Double Event (1934) [a]

The River House Mystery (1935) [a]

Rhodes of Africa (1936) [a]

The Black Tulip (1937) [a]

The Terror (1938) [a]

Murder in Soho (1939) [a]

The Frozen Limits (1939) [a]

Let George Do It! (1940) [a]

Once a Crook (1941) [a]

Spare a Copper (1941) [a]

This Man Is Mine (1946) [a]

Dusty Bates (1947) [a]

The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947) [a]

Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948) [a]

Quartet (1948) [a]

The Fallen Idol (1948) [a]

The Third Man (1949) [a]

Cage of Gold (1950) [a]

Last Holiday (1950) [a]

Morning Departure (1950) [a]

Odette (1950) [a]

The Blue Lamp (1950) [a]

Appointment with Venus (1951) [a]

Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951) [a]

The Adventurers (1951) [a]

White Corridors (1951) [a]

Gift Horse (1952) [a]

Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) [a]

Beat the Devil (1953) [a]

Single-Handed (1953) [a]

The Yellow Balloon (1953) [a]

Father Brown (1954) [a]

Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954) [a]

The Purple Plain (1954) [a]

The Rainbow Jacket (1954) [a]

Out of the Clouds (1955) [a]

The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) [a]

The Battle of the River Plate (1956) [a]

The Spanish Gardener (1956) [a]

Across the Bridge (1957) [a]

Fire Down Below (1957) [a]

High Flight (1957) [a]

Dunkirk (1958) [a]

Nowhere to Go (1958) [a]

The Key (1958) [a]

The Man Upstairs (1958) [a]

Beyond This Place (1959) [a]

Danger Within (1959) [a]

Cone of Silence (1960) [a]

Kidnapped (1960) [a]

The Angry Silence (1960) [a]

Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961) [a]

The Secret Partner (1961) [a]

Whistle Down the Wind (1961) [a]

Dr. No (1962) [a]

The Brain (1962) [a]

The L-Shaped Room (1962) [a]

A Place to Go (1963) [a]

From Russia with Love (1963) [a]

Two Left Feet (1963) [a]

Goldfinger (1964) [a]

Ring of Spies (1964) [a]

Saturday Night Out (1964) [a]

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) [a]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) [a]

Thunderball (1965) [a]

OK Connery (1967) [a]

You Only Live Twice (1967) [a]

Journey to Midnight (1968) [a]

Crossplot (1969) [a]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) [a]

Danger Point (1971) [a]

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) [a]

Dulcima (1971) [a]

The Raging Moon (1971) [a]

Live and Let Die (1973) [a]

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) [a]

Percy's Progress (1974) [a]

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) [a]

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (1975) [a]

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) [a]

Moonraker (1979) [a]



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