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 Beverly Hillbillies as Mr. Fleming Pendleton
- The Lucy Show as Lord Van Cleve
1961
- Hazel as Reginald Archibald
- Ripcord as Hugh Olds
- By Love Possessed as Club Patron (uncredited)
1960
- Surfside 6 as Inspector Campbell
- Coronado 9
- Angel as Charles
- 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
- Ten Wanted Men as Adam Stewart
- The Far Horizons as Mr. Hancock
- Moonfleet as Major Hennishaw
- Flame of the Islands as Gus
1954
- Father Knows Best as Major Alden
- December Bride
- Public Defender as Ben Pearce
- Passport to Danger as U.S. Consul Charlie Edmunds
- Désirée as Caulaincourt (uncredited)
- King Richard and the Crusaders as Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
- Charge of the Lancers as Gen. Stanhope
- Jungle Man-Eaters as Comm. Kingston
1953
- You Are There as Ganzel
- Niagara as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Desert Rats as Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
- Young Bess as Sir William Paget
- Trouble Along the Way as Cardinal William Patrick O'Shea
- Man in the Attic as Chief Insp. Melville
- Bad for Each Other as Dr. Homer Gleeson
- Fort Ti as Lord Jeffrey Amherst
- Sangaree as Gen. Victor Darby
- Savage Mutiny as Maj. Walsh
1952
- Omnibus as The Chief
- The Ford Television Theatre as Carlton
- Against All Flags as Sir Cloudsley
- 5 Fingers
- Les Miserables as Mentou Sr. (uncredited)
- Lady in the Iron Mask as Prime Minister Rochard
- Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land as Commissioner Kingston
- The Brigand as Dr. Lopez
- Captain Pirate as Col. Ramsey
- Operation Secret as Robbins
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 Jack Benny Program as Referee
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Professor Hopkins
- Lux Video Theatre as John Hillgrove
- Cameo Theatre
- Rogues of Sherwood Forest as Alan-A-Dale
- Tyrant of the Sea as Horatio Nelson
- Montana as George Forsythe
1949
- Free For All as Mr. Aberson
1948
1947
- Monsieur Verdoux as Prosecutor (uncredited)
- Bulldog Drummond at Bay as Shannon Eskdale
- The Exile as Robbins
- Dark Delusion as Wyndham Grace
1945
- Two O'Clock Courage as Mark Evans
- Objective, Burma! as British Maj. Fitzpatrick
- I Love a Mystery as Justin Reeves / Mr. G
- Salty O'Rourke as Salesman
- Jungle Queen as Commissioner Braham Chatterton
1944
- Between Two Worlds as Steamship Dispatcher (uncredited)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as Sir Jasper Herrick
- Ministry of Fear as Dr. Norton at Lembridge Asylum (uncredited)
- Nine Girls as Horace Canfield
- Four Jills in a Jeep as Capt. Lloyd (uncredited)
- Shadows in the Night as Stanley Carter
1943
- Corvette K-225 as British Captain
- Northern Pursuit as Colonel (uncredited)
- London Blackout Murders as Oliver Madison
- Two Tickets to London as Treathcote (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Doctor as Dr. Frederick Holmes
- Appointment in Berlin as Air Marshal (uncredited)
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
- A Yank in the R.A.F. as Group Captain
- Man Hunt as Major (uncredited)
1940
- The Sea Hawk as Guard Officer
- Northwest Passage as Sam Livermore
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Mr. Lee
- The Biscuit Eater as Mr. Ames
- Gaucho Serenade as Frederick Willoughby
1939
- Rulers of the Sea as Lieut. Roberts
- Susannah of the Mounties as Harlan Chambers
- Should a Girl Marry? as Dr. White
- British Intelligence as Henry Thompson
- The Three Musketeers as Duke of Buckingham
- Conspiracy as Gair - Henchman
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir Ivor
- If I Were King as General Saliere
- There's Always a Woman as Walter Fraser
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart
- Time Out for Murder as Phillip Gregory
- Mysterious Mr. Moto as Sir Charles Murchison
- I Am a Criminal as District Attorney George Lane
- Think It Over as Ring Leader
1937
- The Prince and the Pauper as St. John
- Lancer Spy as Capt. Neville
1936
- Lloyd's of London as Captain Hardy
- Song and Dance Man as C. B. Nelson
- Crack-Up as Sidney Grant
- 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
- The Song You Gave Me as Max Winter
- She Was Only A Village Maiden as Frampton
- Facing the Music as Becker
- On Secret Service as Coloneilo Romanelli
- Called Back as Gilbert Vaughan
- The Stolen Necklace as Clive Wingate
- The Melody-Maker as Tony Borrodaile
1932
- Fires of Fate as Lt. Col Egerton
- Her Night Out as Gerald Vickery
- Indiscretions of Eve as Ralph
1931
- Creeping Shadows as Brian Nash
- Gipsy Blood as Zuniga
- The Man at Six as Campbell Edwards
- The Old Man as Keith Keller
- The Wickham Mystery as Charles Wickham