Lester Matthews
Born: 1900-06-05 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Died: 1975-06-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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). Description above from the Wikipedia Lester Matthews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1970
- Savage Intruder as Ira Jaffee
1968
- Adam-12 as Gregory Benton
- The Name of the Game as Winston More
1967
- The Scorpio Letters as Mr. Harris
1966
- Family Affair
- The Pruitts of Southampton as Butler
- Assault on a Queen as Doctor
1964
- Daniel Boone as Major
- The Rogues as Bailiff
- A Global Affair as British Delegate (uncredited)
1962
- The Lucy Show as Lord Van Cleve
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Mr. Fleming Pendleton
1961
- Hazel as Reginald Archibald
- Ripcord as Hugh Olds
- By Love Possessed as Club Patron (uncredited)
1960
- Surfside 6 as Inspector Campbell
- Angel as Charles
- Coronado 9
- Walk Like a Dragon as Peter Mott
1959
- Bonanza as Forrester
- Rawhide as Larkins
- One Step Beyond as Prison Governor
- Philip Marlowe
- The Dennis O'Keefe Show
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Pillsbury
- Yancy Derringer as Jerrison Ames
- Behind Closed Doors as Colonel Brookston
1957
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Frank Grace
- How to Marry a Millionaire
1956
- Telephone Time
- Dr. Fu Manchu as Sir Denis Nayland Smith
1955
- The Far Horizons as Mr. Hancock
- Ten Wanted Men as Adam Stewart
- Moonfleet as Major Hennishaw
- Flame of the Islands as Gus
1954
- Father Knows Best as Major Alden
- December Bride
- Public Defender as Mr. Harrington
- Passport to Danger as U.S. Consul Charlie Edmunds
- Désirée as Caulaincourt (uncredited)
- King Richard and the Crusaders as Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
- Jungle Man-Eaters as Comm. Kingston
- Charge of the Lancers as Gen. Stanhope
1953
- You Are There as Ganzel
- Niagara as Doctor (uncredited)
- Fort Ti as Lord Jeffrey Amherst
- Trouble Along the Way as Cardinal William Patrick O'Shea
- Man in the Attic as Chief Insp. Melville
- The Desert Rats as Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
- Young Bess as Sir William Paget
- Bad for Each Other as Dr. Homer Gleeson
- Sangaree as Gen. Victor Darby
- Savage Mutiny as Maj. Walsh
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Carlton
- Omnibus as The Chief
- Against All Flags as Sir Cloudsley
- 5 Fingers
- Les Miserables as Mentou Sr. (uncredited)
- The Brigand as Dr. Lopez
- Captain Pirate as Col. Ramsey
- Operation Secret as Robbins
- Lady in the Iron Mask as Prime Minister Rochard
- Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land as Commissioner Kingston
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Sylvester
- Racket Squad
- The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as British Officer (uncredited)
- Lorna Doone as King Charles II
- The Lady and the Bandit as Ridgely, Joyce's Interrogator
- The Son of Dr. Jekyll as Sir John Utterson
1950
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Mr. Burke
- The Jack Benny Program as Referee
- Lux Video Theatre as John Hillgrove
- Cameo Theatre
- Montana as George Forsythe
- Tyrant of the Sea as Horatio Nelson
- Rogues of Sherwood Forest as Alan-A-Dale
1949
- Free For All as Mr. Aberson
1948
1947
- Monsieur Verdoux as Prosecutor (uncredited)
- The Exile as Robbins
- Dark Delusion as Wyndham Grace
- Bulldog Drummond at Bay as Shannon Eskdale
1945
- Objective, Burma! as British Maj. Fitzpatrick
- Salty O'Rourke as Salesman
- Jungle Queen as Commissioner Braham Chatterton
- Two O'Clock Courage as Mark Evans
- I Love a Mystery as Justin Reeves / Mr. G
1944
- Ministry of Fear as Dr. Norton at Lembridge Asylum (uncredited)
- Between Two Worlds as Steamship Dispatcher (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as Sir Jasper Herrick
- Nine Girls as Horace Canfield
- Shadows in the Night as Stanley Carter
- Four Jills in a Jeep as Capt. Lloyd (uncredited)
1943
- Northern Pursuit as Colonel (uncredited)
- Corvette K-225 as British Captain
- Appointment in Berlin as Air Marshal (uncredited)
- Two Tickets to London as Treathcote (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Doctor as Dr. Frederick Holmes
- London Blackout Murders as Oliver Madison
1942
- Across the Pacific as Canadian Major
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Prosecutor
- Desperate Journey
- The Pied Piper as Mr. Cavanaugh
- Manila Calling as Wayne Ralston
1941
- Man Hunt as Major (uncredited)
- A Yank in the R.A.F. as Group Captain
1940
- The Sea Hawk as Guard Officer
- Northwest Passage as Sam Livermore
- Gaucho Serenade as Frederick Willoughby
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Mr. Lee
- The Biscuit Eater as Mr. Ames
1939
- The Three Musketeers as Duke of Buckingham
- Susannah of the Mounties as Harlan Chambers
- Rulers of the Sea as Lieut. Roberts
- Should a Girl Marry? as Dr. White
- British Intelligence as Henry Thompson
- Conspiracy as Gair - Henchman
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir Ivor
- There's Always a Woman as Walter Fraser
- If I Were King as General Saliere
- Mysterious Mr. Moto as Sir Charles Murchison
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart
- Think It Over as Ring Leader
- Time Out for Murder as Phillip Gregory
- I Am a Criminal as District Attorney George Lane
1937
- The Prince and the Pauper as St. John
- Lancer Spy as Capt. Neville
1936
- Crack-Up as Sidney Grant
- Lloyd's of London as Captain Hardy
- Song and Dance Man as C. B. Nelson
- 15 Maiden Lane as Gilbert Lockhart
- Thank You, Jeeves! as Elliott Manville
- Too Many Parents as Mark Stewart
1935
- Werewolf of London as Paul Ames
- The Raven as Dr. Jerry Holden
- Professional Soldier as Prince Edric
1934
- Borrowed Clothes as Sir Harry Torrent
- Blossom Time as Schwindt
1933
- She Was Only A Village Maiden as Frampton
- The Melody-Maker as Tony Borrodaile
- Facing the Music as Becker
- Called Back as Gilbert Vaughan
- On Secret Service as Coloneilo Romanelli
- The Stolen Necklace as Clive Wingate
- The Song You Gave Me as Max Winter
1932
- Fires of Fate as Lt. Col Egerton
- Indiscretions of Eve as Ralph
- Her Night Out as Gerald Vickery
1931
- Creeping Shadows as Brian Nash
- Gipsy Blood as Zuniga
- The Old Man as Keith Keller
- The Man at Six as Campbell Edwards
- The Wickham Mystery as Charles Wickham