Bernard Miles

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-09-27 (84 years old)

Deathday

1991-06-14

Place of Birth

Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK

Bernard Miles

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 1907–14 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959, the first new theatre opened in the City of London since the 17th century. Miles was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex and attended Bishopshalt School in Hillingdon. While his parents were respectively a farm labourer and a cook, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He entered the theatre in the 1930s, soon appearing in films. Like many actors, he featured prominently in the patriotic cinema during the Second World War, including c...

Acting

1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Edward Drayton

1956

Moby Dick

as The Manxman

1946

Great Expectations

as Joe Gargery

1942

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

as Geoff Hickman, Front Gunner in B for Bertie

1959

Sapphire

as Ted Harris

1953

Never Let Me Go

as Joe Brooks

1956

Tiger in the Smoke

as Tiddy Doll the Gang Leader

1958

Tom Thumb

as Jonathan

1957

Fortune Is a Woman

as Mr. Jerome

1982

Treasure Island

as Long John Silver

1941

The Common Touch

as Cricket Steward

1941

1938

The Rebel Son

as Polish Prisoner

1948

The Guinea Pig

as Mr. Read

1938

They Drive by Night

as Detective at Billiard Halls (Uncredited)

1944

Tunisian Victory

as British soldier (voice)

1940

Pastor Hall

as Heinrich Degan

1946

Carnival

as Trewhella

1963

Heavens Above!

as Simpson

1942

In Which We Serve

as Chief Petty Officer Hardy / Walter Hardy

1950

1944

Two Fathers

as The Englishman

1936

Twelve Good Men

as Inspector Pine

1944

Tawny Pipit

as Colonel Barton-Barrington

1947

Fame Is the Spur

as Tom Hannaway

1935

Late Extra

as Charlie (uncredited)

1941

Freedom Radio

as Capt. Muller

1941

1938

The Challenge

as Villager

1939

The Spy in Black

as Hans - Hotel Receptionist

1938

Strange Boarders

as Chemist (uncredited)

1935

1936

Crown v. Stevens

as Detective Wells

1938

The Citadel

as Medical Aid Society Committee Member (uncredited)

1940

Band Waggon

as Saboteur (uncredited)

1940

Contraband

as Man Lighting Pipe

1958

The Vision of William Blake

as Poems & Narration

1951

Henry Moore

as Narrator

1942

The Big Blockade

as Royal Navy Mate

1956

Zarak

as Hassu the one-eyed

1943

The New Lot

as Ted Loman

1935

The Guv'nor

as Man at Meeting

1952

The Magic Box

as Cousin Alfred

1942

The Day Will Dawn

as McAllister (Irish Soldier)

1957

Saint Joan

as Master Executioner

1939

The Lion Has Wings

as Civilian Observer Controller

1961

Barbara Hepworth

as Narrator

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1958

1942

Sabotage!

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1937

Secrets of Kew Gardens

as Narrator (voice)

Production

1982

1950

1944

Tawny Pipit

as Director

1944

Tawny Pipit

as Writer

1942

Thunder Rock

as Screenplay

1944

Tawny Pipit

as Producer

1948

The Guinea Pig

as Screenplay

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