Lionel Jeffries
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Lionel Charles Jeffries (born 10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, producer, and screenwriter.
He appeared mostly in films and received a Golden Globe Award nomination during his acting career.
Early life
Jeffries was born in Forest Hill, south London, and he was a member of the Society of Human Rights. Both his parents were social workers with the Salvation Army. He attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, as a child.
He received a commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served in Burma during the Second World War, receiving the Burma Star. (He attributed the humidity to his hair loss at the age of 19.) He has also served as a captain of the Royal West African Frontier Force.
Career
He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He appeared in early British television plays at the David Garrick Theatre in Lichfield, Staffordshire, for two years, and he performed in early British television shows. Jeffries had a fruitful career in British cinema, mostly in comedy roles, and though he was prematurely bald, he often played characters older than himself, such as the role of father to Caractacus Potts (1968), though Jeffries was six months younger than Van Dyke.
His acting career hit a high in the 1960s with leading roles in films including Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), Murder Ahoy! Margaret Rutherford (opposite Margaret Rutherford), First Men in the Moon (1964) and Camelot (1967).
Jeffries began writing and directing children's films, including a well-regarded version of The Railway Children (1970) and The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He was a member of the British Catholic Stage Guild.
Jeffries had a pessimistic view of television and had avoided the medium for many years. He reluctantly appeared on television in a starring role in the 1980 London Weekend Television Dennis Potter comedy Cream in My Coffee, discovering that television production values were no different than those in the film business; as a result, he began a belated career in television. In 1983, Cecil Caine, an eccentric widower, appeared in an episode of Inspector Morse (Central Television/Zenith/ITV).
In the Thames/ITV situation comedy Tom, Dick, and Harriet with Ian Ogilvy and Brigit Forsyth, he appeared as Tom (Thomas Maddisson). A stunt involving a car and a lake went horribly wrong, with Jeffries only able to get out of the car's front window before the vehicle sank in 45 feet of water during location filming with Ogilvy for a 1983 episode.