John Le Mesurier

All Movies of John Le Mesurier

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  7.8
  Brideshead Revisited (TV Miniseries)
  TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly falls in love with t...
  Character:  Father Mowbray 1 episode, 1981

   1981

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  The Shillingbury Blowers
  Cantankerous Trevor Howard and his cronies resist attempts by young Robin Nedwell to improve the band in an English village.
   1980

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  5.7
  The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond,...
  Character: Perkins

   1980

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  5.0
  The Spaceman and King Arthur
  A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with ...
   1979

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  6.5
  Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
  Character: Dr. Deere

   1978

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  What's Up Nurse!
   1978

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  6.2
  Jabberwocky
  After the death of his father the young cooper 'Dennis Cooper' goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his for...
  Character: The Chamberlain

   1977

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  5.5
  The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
  Gene Wilder plays Sherlock Holmes' younger brother who is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying succ...
   1975

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  6.0
  Brief Encounter (TV)
  Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
  Character: Stephen

   1974

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  Play for Today (TV Series)
  TV Series (1970-1984). 14 Seasons. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series. It was produced by the BBC and it was transmitted on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984. During this period, more than 300 different program...
   1970

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  6.1
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly modern and somewhat abrasive, he...
  Character: Pelham

   1970

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  W. Somerset Maugham (TV Series)
  TV Series (1969-1970). 2 seasons. 26 episodes.
   1969

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  6.3
  The Italian Job
  Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
   1969

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  5.3
  The Magic Christian
  A series of strange sequences connected with a satire on greed.
  Character: Sir John

   1969

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  Dad's Army (TV Series)
  Dad's Army follows the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard commanded by Captain Mainwaring and his assistant Sergeant Wilson. The large platoon are totally ill-prepared for an attack from the Nazis and none are fit to fight. Private Fraz...
   1968

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  Salt & Pepper
  After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the governme...
  Character: Col. Woodstock

   1968

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  The 25th Hour
  Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi).
   1967

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  5.1
  Casino Royale
  SMERSH has outlined a plan to destabilize the world. Her Majesty’s Secret Service decides to press an aging James Bond out of retirement and back into action. His objective, to confuse the enemy by unleashing several agents, all...
   1967

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  6.9
  The Wrong Box
  A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are...
  Character: Doctor Slattery

   1966

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  5.9
  Eye of the Devil
  Vineyard owner marquis Philippe de Montfaucon is called back to his castle Bellenac because of another dry season. He asks his wife and children to remain in London, but they still come after him. His wife Catherine de Montfaucon ...
  Character: Dr. Monnet

   1966

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  5.4
  Our Man in Marrakesh
  One of six travellers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
   1966

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  The City Under the Sea
  Set on the Cornish coast in 1903, the film features a group of people discovering an underwater society of smugglers who never age living in a lost underwater city along with their gill-man slaves.
   1965

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  6.7
  Thunderball
  James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness
   1965

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  6.7
  Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
  In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for position and the a...
   1965

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  6.7
  In the Cool of the Day
  After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. Th...
  Character: Dr. Arraman

   1963

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  6.4
  The Wrong Arm of the Law
  The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/cr...
  Character: Assistant Commissioner

   1963

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  The Mouse on the Moon
  The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to ...
   1963

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  6.5
  The Pink Panther
  When famous The Pink Panther diamond goes missing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau goes on the trail of notorious jewel thief The Phantom, but looks everywhere except in the right place!
  Character: Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier)

   1963

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  Go to Blazes
  After yet another smash-and-grab goes wrong, a bungling trio of small-time crooks flash an idea of using a fire engine as a getaway vehicle. But they keep being mistaken for genuine firemen and it starts to become a flaming nuisan
   1962

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  6.0
  Only Two Can Play
  John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair
  Character: Salter

   1962

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  6.0
  Waltz of the Toreadors
  This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emi...
  Character: Rev. Grimsley

   1962

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  The Main Attraction
   1962

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  On the Fiddle
  When he is pulled up in court for selling stuff on the street, Horace Pope says he was only doing it while waiting to enlist. The judge calls his bluff and forces him to sign up. Pope makes friends with the easy going but loyal Pe...
   1961

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  5.0
  Mr. Topaze
  Character: Blackmailer

   1961

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  The Rebel
  Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist.
   1961

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  Comedy Playhouse (TV Series)
  TV Series (1961-1975; 2015-2016). 17 seasons. 133 episodes.
   1961

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  5.5
  Five Golden Hours
  A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes. The crook evolves an ingenious sw...
  Character: Dr. Alfieri

   1961

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  6.0
  The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
  London at the turn of the century. Three men is on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the
  Character: Green

   1960

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  5.7
  Doctor in Love
  Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surger...
  Character: Dr. Mincing

   1960

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  A Touch of Larceny
  Philandering Commander Max Easton, now desk-bound and under-worked in the Admiralty, finds he suddenly needs to make some money when he falls for American Virginia Killain. When he hatches a plot to disappear in circumstances that...
   1959

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  7.1
  Our Man in Havana
  Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent,...
  Character: Louis - Waiter

   1959

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  6.6
  I'm All Right Jack
  Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the t...
  Character: Waters

   1959

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  8.3
  Ben-Hur
  Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the night over Bethlehem marks the birth of Jesus Christ. Years late...
   1959

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  7.0
  The Lady Is a Square
  Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna,...
  Character: Fergusson

   1959

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  6.9
  Too Many Crooks
  Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daugh...
   1959

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  5.3
  Blood of the vampire
  Character: Judge

   1958

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  The Admirable Crichton
  Comedy based on James Barrie's classic play in which Kenneth More's English butler, shipwrecked with his employers, resourcefully leads them in their attempts to survive. Social satire about an aristocratic family and their butler...
   1957

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  Brothers in Law
  Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm.
  Character: His Honour Judge Ryman

   1957

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  The Good Companions
  A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adven...
   1957

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  6.0
  High Flight
  The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
   1957

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  Private's Progress
  Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material. This leads him to meets up with wily Private Cox who knows exactly h...
   1956

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  6.0
  The Baby and the Battleship
  After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts t...
  Character: The Marshal's Aide

   1956

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  The Battle of the River Plate
  Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface raiders, huge ...
   1956

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  Josephine and Men
  The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
   1955

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  Stranger from Venus
  Tonight, first contact will be made! A beautifully-crafted tale of a superior being from Venus who has the power of life and death at his touch. Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal's glowing and sensitive performance as a ...
   1954

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  Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents (TV Series)
  TV Series (1953-1957). 156 episodes. Fairbanks narrated, produced and frequently starred in this anthology series which presented everything from drama to mystery to farce. Filmed in England, usually with lesser known actors.
   1953

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  Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
  The mysterious figure known as the Vampire comes to England to complete experiments in his mad bid to gain control of the world. When the radar-controlled Robot which he had ordered shipped to him is delivered instead to Mother Ri...
   1952