Bernard Lee

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-01-10 (73 years old)

Deathday

1981-01-16

Place of Birth

Brentford, London, England, UK

Bernard Lee

Biography

John Bernard "Bernard" Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.

Acting

1949

The Third Man

as Sergeant Paine

1962

Dr. No

as M

1964

1965

1979

2000

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)

1948

The Fallen Idol

as Detective Hart

1953

Beat the Devil

as Insp. Jack Clayton

1965

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

as Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")

1961

Whistle Down the Wind

as Mr. Bostock

1964

Saturday Night Out

as George Hudson

1960

Kidnapped

as Captain Hoseason

1953

Sailor of the King

as Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley

1951

Mr. Denning Drives North

as Inspector Dodds

1977

A Christmas Carol

as Ghost of Christmas Present

1956

The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell

1950

Morning Departure

as Cmdr. Gates

1958

Dunkirk

as Charles Foreman

1961

Partners in Crime

as Inspector Mann

1950

Odette

as Jack

1958

Nowhere to Go

as Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson

1950

The Blue Lamp

as Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

1957

Across the Bridge

as Chief Inspector Hadden

1973

The Man Who Died Twice

as Francis Cumberland

1954

The Purple Plain

as Dr. Harris

1960

The Angry Silence

as Bert Connolly

1962

1974

Percy's Progress

as Barraclough

1961

The Secret Partner

as D.S. Frank Hanbury

1967

Operation Kid Brother

as Commander Cunningham

1958

The Key

as Cmdr. Wadlow

1954

Father Brown

as Inspector Valentine

1958

The Man Upstairs

as Inspector Thompson

1951

1956

The Spanish Gardener

as Leighton Bailey

1969

Crossplot

as Chilmore

1948

Elizabeth of Ladymead

as John Beresford in 1903

1959

Web of Evidence

as Patrick Mathry

1950

Cage of Gold

as Inspector Grey

1951

White Corridors

as Burgess

1939

Murder in Soho

as Roy Barnes

1941

1951

Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Colonel Webson

1940

1954

Seagulls Over Sorrento

as Lofty Turner

1971

The Raging Moon

as Uncle Bob

1938

The Terror

as Ferry Fane

1940

1963

A Place to Go

as Matt Flint

1957

High Flight

as Flight Sergeant Harris

1961

1965

The Incredible World of James Bond

as Bernard Lee: M (Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG)

1960

Cone of Silence

as Capt. George Gort

1959

Danger Within

as Lieutenant Colonel Huxley

1962

The Brain

as Dr. Frank Shears

1976

Beauty and the Beast

as Edward Beaumont

1955

Out of the Clouds

as Customs Officer

1972

1964

Ring of Spies

as Henry Houghton

1957

Fire Down Below

as Doctor Sam

1961

Clue of the Silver Key

as Superintendent Meredith

1960

Clue of the Twisted Candle

as Superintendent Meredith

1953

The Yellow Balloon

as Constable Chapman

1951

1939

The Frozen Limits

as Bill McGrew

2002

Best Ever Bond

as M (archive footage) (uncredited)

1946

This Man Is Mine

as James Nicholls

1966

1949

I Have Been Here Before

as Walter Ormund

1978

Seawrack

as Man

1939

The Outsider

as Cameraman

1950

Last Holiday

as Inspector Wilton

1936

Rhodes of Africa

as Cartwright

1952

Gift Horse

as A.S. 'Stripey' Wood

1975

Murrain

as Beeley

1948

Quartet

as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")

1971

Dulcima

as Mr Gaskain

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

as Firing Officer (uncredited)

1947

1943

The New Lot

as Interviewing Officer

1963

Two Left Feet

as Mr Crabbe

1955

The Ship That Died of Shame

as Customs Officer Brewster

1979

Death Becomes Me

as Sam Milford

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The Black Tulip

as William Of Orange

1936

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