Career Highlights: The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Camelot, Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
First Major Screen Credit: The Colditz Story (1955)
Biography
Lantern-jawed, mustachioed, phlegmatic British actor Lionel Jeffries was trained at RADA following military service. In films from 1949, Jeffries hit his stride in the 1960s, playing a variety of ineffectual cops, bumbling bureaucrats, petty criminals and absent-minded professors. He was shown to best advantage in such films as Wrong Arm of the Law (1962) First Men in the Moon (1963) and Spy with a Cold Nose (1966). He was also adept at more sober-sided characterizations, such as the Marquis of Queensbury in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960). In 1971, Lionel Jeffries turned to directing with The Railway Children, the first of several efforts aimed at the family trade: his other directorial assignments in this vein include Baxter (1972) The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972), The Water Babies (1978) and Wombling Free (1978). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
He attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wimborne and then trained at RADA after his World War II service. He then went
into repertory at the David Garrick Theatre, Lichfield for
2 years and appeared in early British television plays.
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