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Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews (June 6, 1900 - June 5, 1975) was an English actor born in Nottingham, England, UK. In his career, he made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was on occasion erroneously credited as Lester Mathews and especially in later years was sometimes known as Les Matthews. He died on the 6 June 1975 in Los Angeles, California. He was cremated. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He appeared on television many times including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "Completely Foolproof" (original air date: March 29, 1965).

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Movies Starring Lester Matthews (107)

Hollywood Horror House (1970)

An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard. While the rest of the house staff become suspicious of Vic's intentions, the aging movi ...

The Scorpio Letters (1967)

A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio. ...

Assault on a Queen (1966)

A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas. ...

By Love Possessed (1961)

An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner. ...

Walk Like a Dragon (1960)

California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Lin ...

Four Hours in White (1958)

Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another. ...

Flame of the Islands (1955)

A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her. ...

The Far Horizons (1955)

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before. ...

Moonfleet (1955)

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with sm ...

Ten Wanted Men (1955)

When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory. ...

King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)

Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart. ...

Jungle Man-Eaters (1954)

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe. ...

Bad for Each Other (1953)

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor. ...

Man in the Attic (1953)

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the wors ...

Young Bess (1953)

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught ...

The Desert Rats (1953)

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the comm ...

Sangaree (1953)

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War. ...

Fort Ti (1953)

Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this j ...

Trouble Along the Way (1953)

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability. ...

Savage Mutiny (1953)

Jungle Jim battles enemy agents while helping a local tribe relocate from an atomic test bomb site. ...

Niagara (1953)

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and ...

Against All Flags (1952)

A British naval officer fights pirates in Madagascar. ...

Operation Secret (1952)

After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz. ...

Captain Pirate (1952)

In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. ...

Les Miserables (1952)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)

A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas. ...

The Brigand (1952)

Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo, whom bears a remarkable resemblance to Delargo. When the king is wounded by assassins sent b ...

Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)

Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people. ...

5 Fingers (1952)

During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess. ...

The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)

The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster. ...

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler. ...

The Lady and the Bandit (1951)

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England. ...

Lorna Doone (1951)

An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords. ...

Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)

The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition. ...

Tyrant of the Sea (1950)

In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagsh ...

Montana (1950)

An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman. ...

Free For All (1949)

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor. ...

The Exile (1947)

In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily i ...

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then mu ...

Dark Delusion (1947)

Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town. ...

Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947)

"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummo ...

Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him. ...

Salty O'Rourke (1945)

A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse. ...

Objective, Burma! (1945)

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they ...

I Love a Mystery (1945)

In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him. ...

Jungle Queen (1945)

A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle. ...

Shadows in the Night (1944)

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion. ...

The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, w ...

Between Two Worlds (1944)

Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common. ...

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas. ...

Nine Girls (1944)

One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer. ...

Northern Pursuit (1943)

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans. ...

Corvette K-225 (1943)

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain. ...

Appointment in Berlin (1943)

The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders. ...

Two Tickets to London (1943)

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors. ...

The Mysterious Doctor (1943)

The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine. ...

London Blackout Murders (1943)

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting n ...

Manila Calling (1942)

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters. ...

Across the Pacific (1942)

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his g ...

The Pied Piper (1942)

Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. ...

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. B ...

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend. ...

Man Hunt (1941)

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young ...

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit. ...

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures. ...

The Biscuit Eater (1940)

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose ...

Gaucho Serenade (1940)

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, ...

Northwest Passage (1940)

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Franc ...

British Intelligence (1939)

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germ ...

Rulers of the Sea (1939)

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century. ...

Conspiracy (1939)

American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, ...

Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple take ...

Should a Girl Marry? (1939)

A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison. ...

The Three Musketeers (1939)

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they ...

I Am a Criminal (1938)

In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up ...

If I Were King (1938)

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on ...

Time Out for Murder (1938)

A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate. ...

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard. ...

Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men. ...

Think It Over (1938)

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money. ...

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian. ...

There's Always a Woman (1938)

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks ...

Lancer Spy (1937)

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him. ...

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the p ...

Crack-Up (1936)

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage. ...

Lloyd's of London (1936)

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd ...

15 Maiden Lane (1936)

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves. ...

Thank You, Jeeves! (1936)

Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble. ...

Too Many Parents (1936)

Too Many Parents (1936)

Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide. ...

Song and Dance Man (1936)

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan. ...

Professional Soldier (1935)

Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned. ...

The Raven (1935)

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where ...

Werewolf of London (1935)

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster. ...

Borrowed Clothes (1934)

Lady Torrent attempts to sell some of her best Parisian gowns to get back into her husband's good books. Confusion ensues following a misunderstanding over an advertisement. ...

Blossom Time (1934)

World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter. ...

Facing The Music (1933)

Facing The Music (1933)

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer's niece lands him in trouble! ...

On Secret Service (1933)

Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in ...

The Song You Gave Me (1933)

Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her. ...

Called Back (1933)

'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl. ...

Her Night Out (1932)

Her Night Out (1932)

A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber. ...

Indiscretions of Eve (1932)

Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's o ...

Fires of Fate (1932)

Fires of Fate (1932)

In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince. ...

The Old Man (1931)

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer. ...

Gipsy Blood (1931)

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée's classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet's opera, Gipsy Blood ...

The Wickham Mystery (1931)

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans. ...

The Man at Six (1931)

A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house. ...

Creeping Shadows (1931)

Creeping Shadows (1931)

Three victims plot to murder a retired informer. ...

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