Lionel Jeffries

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Lionel Jeffries (born June 10, 1926 in London, England) is an actor, screenwriter and film director.

[edit] Life and work

He trained at RADA after his World War II service, and built a successful career mainly in comic character roles in British films. Prematurely bald, his acting career reached a peak in the 1960s in leading roles in films like Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), First Men in the Moon (1964), Camelot (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).

In the 1970s he turned to writing and directing children's films, including the celebrated 1970 version of The Railway Children. He belongs to the British Catholic Stage Guild, formerly headed by the late actress Patricia Hayes.

[edit] Selected films

As actor:

As writer-director:

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