Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 – 16 January 1981) was an English actor who performed in many light entertainment media, including film, television and theatre. His career spanned from 1934 to 1981, although he made his first appearance on the stage at age of six.[1] He is perhaps best known for playing M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films.[2][3]
Lee trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,[4] before making his professional stage debut in June 1928 in The Happy Ending at the Rusholme Theatre in Manchester. He appeared on film for the first time six years later in the Leslie Howard Gordon-directed comedy The Double Event, where he played the part of Dennison.[5] Although he was in wartime service with the Royal Sussex Regiment between 1940 and 1946,[6][7] he had already been in several films, which were released between 1939 and 1943.[8] He returned to acting after the war and was offered a role in the play Stage Door while awaiting his demob.[7]
Lee appeared in more than 100 films, as well as on stage and television dramatisations.[9] He was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters, policemen or officials.[4][9] Highlights in his career included The Third Man, The Blue Lamp, The Battle of the River Plate, Whistle Down the Wind and the James Bond series. Suffering from stomach cancer, Lee died on 16 January 1981, aged 73.[4] The Guardian noted that Lee was a "solid and reliable character actor" who displayed "a rugged dependency".[1]
Selected stage credits
Production | Date | Role | Theatre | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Happy Ending | June 1928 – | — | Rusholme Theatre | [10] |
Tudor Wench | October 1933 – | Sir John Harlington | Embassy Theatre | [11] |
Take Heed! | 28 January 1934 – | Roman | Piccadilly Theatre | [12] |
Murder in Motley | April 1934 – | — | Royalty Theatre | [13] |
Root of all Evil | July 1934 – | — | St Martin's Theatre | [14] |
The Philanthropist | September 1935 – | — | Arts Theatre | [15] |
Distinguished Gathering | October 1935 – | — | Embassy Theatre | [16] |
Murder Gang | November 1935 – | — | Embassy Theatre | [17] |
Red Night | March 1936 – | — | Queen's Theatre | [18] |
The Future That Was | April 1936 – | — | Ambassadors Theatre | [19] |
Young Madam Conti | November 1936 – | — | Savoy Theatre | [20] |
Night Sky | January 1937 – | Ray Dawson | Savoy Theatre | [21] |
Tavern in the Town | February 1937 – | — | Embassy Theatre | [22] |
And the Music Stopped | May 1937 – | — | New Theatre | [23] |
The Gusher | August 1937 – | — | Prince's Theatre | [24] |
People of Our Class | April 1938 – | — | Manchester Opera House | [25] |
Blind Man's Buff | October 1938 – | — | Arts Theatre | [26] |
Number Six | December 1938 – | Franklyn Dyall | Aldwych Theatre | [27] |
The Long Mirror | February 1940 – | — | Haymarket Theatre | [28] |
Peace in Our Time | July 1947 – | Publican | Lyric Theatre | [29] |
Seagulls Over Sorrento | June 1950 – | Seaman "Lofty" Turner | Apollo Theatre | [30] |
The Desperate Hours | April 1955 – | Dan Hilliard | Hippodrome Theatre | [31] |
Act of Violence | October 1962 – | — | St Martin's Theatre | [32] |
Norman | April 1963 – | Charlie | Royal Court Theatre | [33] |
The Farm | September 1973 – | — | Royal Court Theatre | [34] |
Filmography
Film[35][36][37] | Year | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
The Double Event | 1934 | Dennison | |
The River House Mystery | 1935 | Wade Belloc | |
Rhodes of Africa | 1936 | Cartwright | |
The Black Tulip | 1937 | William of Orange | |
The Terror | 1938 | Ferdy Fane | |
Love From a Stranger | 1938 | Cast Member | Uncredited |
Murder in Soho | 1939 | Roy Barnes | |
The Frozen Limits | 1939 | Bill McGrew | |
Let George Do It! | 1940 | Oscar | US title To Hell with Hitler[8] |
Spare a Copper | 1940 | Jake | |
Once a Crook | 1941 | The Duke | |
The New Lot | 1943 | Interviewing Officer | Uncredited |
This Man Is Mine | 1946 | James Nicholls | |
The Courtneys of Curzon Street | 1946 | Colonel Gascoyne | US title Kathy's Love Affair[38] |
Dusty Bates | 1947 | Captain Ford | US title The Adventures of Dusty Bates[39] |
Quartet | 1948 | Ned Preston, Prison Visitor | |
The Fallen Idol | 1948 | Detective Hart | |
Elizabeth of Ladymead | 1949 | John Beresford in 1903 | |
The Third Man | 1949 | Sergeant Paine | |
The Blue Lamp | 1950 | Inspector Cherry | |
Morning Departure | 1950 | Commander Gates | US title Operation Disaster[40] |
Last Holiday | 1950 | Inspector Wilton | |
Odette | 1950 | Jack | |
Cage of Gold | 1950 | Inspector Grey | |
The Adventurers | 1951 | O'Connell | US title Fortune in Diamonds[41] |
White Corridors | 1951 | Burgess | |
Calling Bulldog Drummond | 1951 | Colonel Webson | |
Appointment with Venus | 1951 | Brigadier | US title Island Rescue[41] |
Mr. Denning Drives North | 1952 | Inspector Dodds | |
Gift Horse | 1952 | Able Seaman 'Stripey' Wood | US title Glory at Sea[42] |
The Yellow Balloon | 1953 | Constable Chapman | |
Single-Handed | 1953 | Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley | US title C.S. Forester's Sailor of the King[43] |
Beat the Devil | 1953 | Inspector Jack Clayton | |
The Rainbow Jacket | 1954 | Racketeer | |
Father Brown | 1954 | Inspector Valentine | US title The Detective[44] |
Seagulls Over Sorrento | 1954 | Seaman 'Lofty' Turner | US title Crest of the Wave[45] |
The Purple Plain | 1954 | Doctor Harris | |
Out of the Clouds | 1955 | Customs Officer | |
The Ship That Died of Shame | 1955 | Sam Brewster | US title PT Raiders[46] |
The Battle of the River Plate | 1956 | Captain Dove—M.S. Africa Shell | US title Pursuit of the Graf Spee[47] |
The Spanish Gardener | 1956 | Leighton Bailey | |
Fire Down Below | 1957 | Doctor Sam Blake | |
Across the Bridge | 1957 | Chief Inspector Hadden | |
High Flight | 1957 | Flight Sergeant Harris | |
Dunkirk | 1958 | Charles Foreman | |
The Key | 1958 | Commander Wadlow | |
The Man Upstairs | 1958 | Inspector Thompson | |
Nowhere to Go | 1958 | Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson | |
Danger Within | 1959 | Lieutenant colonel Huxley | US title Breakout[48] |
Beyond This Place | 1959 | Patrick Mathry | US title Web of Evidence[49] |
Kidnapped | 1960 | Captain Hoseason | |
The Angry Silence | 1960 | Bert Connolly | |
The Clue of the Twisted Candle | 1960 | Superintendent Meredith | |
Cone of Silence | 1960 | Captain George Gort | US title Trouble in the Sky[50] |
Fury at Smugglers' Bay | 1961 | Black John | |
The Secret Partner | 1961 | Superintendent Frank Hanbury | |
Partners in Crime | 1961 | Inspector Mann | |
Whistle Down the Wind | 1961 | Mr Bostock | |
The Clue of the Silver Key | 1961 | Superintendent Meredith | |
The Share Out | 1962 | Superintendent Meredith | |
The Brain | 1962 | Doctor Frank Shears | |
The L-Shaped Room | 1962 | Charlie | |
Dr. No | 1962 | M | |
Two Left Feet | 1963 | Mr Crabbe | |
A Place to Go | 1963 | Matt Flint | |
From Russia with Love | 1963 | M | |
Ring of Spies | 1964 | Henry Houghton | US Title Ring of Treason[51] |
Saturday Night Out | 1964 | George Hudson | |
Goldfinger | 1964 | M | |
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | 1965 | Hopkins | |
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | 1965 | Landlord | Uncredited |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | 1965 | Patmore | |
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin | 1965 | Jeremiah | |
Thunderball | 1965 | M | |
O.K. Connery | 1967 | Commander Cunningham | (Bond Parody) US title Operation Kid Brother[52] |
You Only Live Twice | 1967 | M | |
Journey to Midnight | 1968 | Ben Loker | |
Crossplot | 1969 | Chilmore | |
On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 1969 | M | |
Danger Point | 1971 | Captain | |
The Raging Moon | 1971 | Uncle Bob | US title Long Ago, Tomorrow[53] |
Diamonds Are Forever | 1971 | M | |
Dulcima | 1971 | Mr Gaskain | |
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | 1973 | Tarmut | |
Live and Let Die | 1973 | M | |
Percy's Progress | 1974 | Barraclough | US title It's Not the Size That Counts[54] |
The Man with the Golden Gun | 1974 | M | |
Bons Baisers de Hong Kong | 1975 | Commander Cunningham | (Bond Parody) Also known as From Hong Kong with Love |
The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | M | |
Moonraker | 1979 | M |
Television
Programme | Date | Role | Channel | Notes | Ref. |
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Television Playhouse, "The Golden Fleece" | 31 December 1955 | William Lotless | ITV Television | Television production of a J. B. Priestley play | [55] |
Theatre Royal, "The Stolen Pearl" | 8 January 1956 | Candleblow Smith | ITV Television | [56] | |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, "A Borderline Case" | 30 October 1956 | Rudi Lankert | ITV Television | [57] | |
Playdate, "All Correct, Sir" | 13 December 1956 | Cast Member | ITV Television | [58] | |
Television Playhouse: Cornelius | 18 July 1958 | Cornelius | ITV Television | Television production of a J. B. Priestley play | [59] |
Armchair Theatre, "Ernie Barger is 50" | 8 February 1959 | Cast Member | ITV Television | [60] | |
Play of the Week, "Family On Trial" | 21 April 1959 | Detective Inspector Lunt | ITV Television | [61] | |
Sunday Night Theatre, "Crime Passionnel" | 20 September 1959 | Hoederer | BBC Television | Television production of a Jean-Paul Sartre play | [62] |
Armchair Theatre, "Cold Fury" | 31 January 1960 | Cast Member | ITV Television | [63] | |
Armchair Theatre, "Nest of Four" | 15 May 1960 | Cast Member | ITV Television | [64] | |
The Interrogator | 22 December 1961 | Superintendent Farron | BBC Television | [65] | |
Who Was Maddox? | 1964 | Superintendent Meredith | ITV Television | Television production of an Edgar Wallace thriller | [66] |
Espionage, "Snow on Mount Kama" | 15 February 1964 | John Neary | ITV Television | [67] | |
Thursday Theatre, "Flowering Cherry" | 7 January 1965 | Jim Cherry | BBC Two | [68] | |
Danger Man, "Whatever Happened To George Foster?" | 30 January 1965 | Lord Ammanford | ITV Television | [69] | |
The Human Jungle, "Ring of Hate" | 18 March 1965 | Jim Garner | ITV Television | [70] | |
Thirty-Minute Theatre, "The Passenger" | 30 December 1965 | The Man | BBC Two | [71] | |
Danger Man, "The Man with the Foot" | 3 March 1966 | Derringham | ITV Television | [72] | |
Armchair Theatre, "The Night Before the Morning After" | 2 April 1966 | Daniel Whittaker | ITV Television | [73] | |
King of the River | 6 July 1966 | Joss King | BBC One | [74] | |
The Baron, "Masquerade" | 15 October 1966 | Morgan Travis | ITV Television | Part 1 of a 2-part story: part 2 is called "The Killing" | [75] |
The Baron, "The Killing" | 22 October 1966 | Morgan Travis | ITV Television | Part 2 of a 2-part story: part 1 is called "Masquerade" | [76] |
Half-Hour Story, "Friends" | 6 September 1967 | Frank | ITV Television | [77] | |
Man in a Suitcase, "Girl Who Never Was" | 25 November 1967 | Kershaw | ITV Television | [78] | |
The Gamblers: The Man Beneath | 7 December 1967 | Bob Townsend | [79] | ||
The Jazz Age: Post Mortem | 17 September 1968 | Sir James | BBC Two | Television production of the Noël Coward play Post Mortem | [80] |
The System: Them Down There | 24 September 1968 | Baxter | ITV Television | [81] | |
The Wednesday Play, "Nothing Will Be The Same Again" | 6 November 1968 | Frank Lanton | BBC One | [82] | |
Journey to the Unknown: Poor Butterfly | 1969 | Loker | ABC | Also broadcast on ITV Television 19 May 1969 | [83] |
The Expert, "Post-Mortem On Harry Kirby" | 13 July 1969 | Harry Kirby | BBC Two | [84] | |
The Persuaders!, "Someone Like Me" | 29 October 1971 | Sam Milford | ITV Television | [85] | |
Pathfinders, "Codename Gomorrah" | 13 December 1972 | Air Vice-Marshal | ITV Television | [86] | |
The Man Who Died Twice | 13 April 1973 | Cast Member | First broadcast in the USA | [87] | |
Once Upon a Time: Silver | 12 August 1973 | James Cable | ITV Television | Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story Treasure Island | [88] |
Crime of Passion: Emile | 10 September 1973 | Marcel Amiot | ITV Television | [89] | |
Vienna 1900 Games With Love And Death: Story 1 Mother And Son | 8 December 1973 | Herr Welponer | BBC Two | [90] | |
Play of the Month, "The Skin Game" | 19 May 1974 | Hornblower | BBC One | Television production of a John Galsworthy play | [91] |
Father Brown: The Quick One | 21 November 1974 | John Raggley | ITV Television | Based on G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories | [92] |
Play of the Month, "The School for Scandal" | 2 February 1972 | Cast Member | BBC One | Based on The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan | [93] |
Affairs of the Heart: Kate | 9 March 1975 | Mr Drury | ITV Television | [94] | |
Against The Crowd: Murrain | 27 July 1975 | Beeley | ITV Television | [95] | |
What A Turn Up | 7 August 1975 | Cast Member | ITV Television | [96] | |
Warship, "Knight Errant" | 20 January 1976 | Yachtsman | BBC One | [97] | |
Killers: The Chalkpit Murder | 25 August 1976 | Thomas Ley | ITV Television | [98] | |
Hallmark Hall of Fame, "Beauty and the Beast" | 3 December 1976 | Beaumont | US television production | [99] | |
The Foundation: Business Not Quite As Usual | 1977 | Cast Member | ITV Television | Nine-part television series | [100] |
A Christmas Carol Being a Ghost Story of Christmas | 24 December 1977 | Jacob Marley | BBC Two | [101] | |
Star Games | 4 November 1980 | On-screen Participant | ITV Television | [102] | |
The Last Detective | 4 January 1981 | Sergeant Ben | ITV Television | Part of the Dangerous Davies series | [103][104] |
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(help) - Smith, Jim; Lavington, Stephen (2002). Bond films. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0709-4.
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External links
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- Bernard Lee at the BFI's Screenonline
- Bernard Lee at IMDb
- Bernard Lee at the TCM Movie Database