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 Ben Pearce
- Passport to Danger as U.S. Consul Charlie Edmunds
- King Richard and the Crusaders as Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
- Désirée as Caulaincourt (uncredited)
- Jungle Man-Eaters as Comm. Kingston
- Charge of the Lancers as Gen. Stanhope
1953
- You Are There
- Niagara as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Desert Rats as Foreign Secretary (uncredited)
- Fort Ti as Lord Jeffrey Amherst
- Man in the Attic as Chief Insp. Melville
- Trouble Along the Way as Cardinal William Patrick O'Shea
- 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
- Omnibus as The Chief
- The Ford Television Theatre as Carlton
- 5 Fingers
- Les Miserables as Mentou Sr. (uncredited)
- Against All Flags as Sir Cloudsley
- The Brigand as Dr. Lopez
- Operation Secret as Robbins
- Captain Pirate as Col. Ramsey
- Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land as Commissioner Kingston
- Lady in the Iron Mask as Prime Minister Rochard
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Sylvester
- Racket Squad
- Lorna Doone as King Charles II
- The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as British Officer (uncredited)
- The Son of Dr. Jekyll as Sir John Utterson
- The Lady and the Bandit as Ridgely, Joyce's Interrogator
1950
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Professor Hopkins
- The Jack Benny Program as Referee
- Lux Video Theatre as John Hillgrove
- Cameo Theatre
- Montana as George Forsythe
- Rogues of Sherwood Forest as Alan-A-Dale
- Tyrant of the Sea as Horatio Nelson
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
- Two O'Clock Courage as Mark Evans
- Jungle Queen as Commissioner Braham Chatterton
- I Love a Mystery as Justin Reeves / Mr. G
1944
- Nine Girls as Horace Canfield
- 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)
- 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
- Two Tickets to London as Treathcote (uncredited)
- London Blackout Murders as Oliver Madison
- Appointment in Berlin as Air Marshal (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Doctor as Dr. Frederick Holmes
1942
- Across the Pacific as Canadian Major
- The Pied Piper as Mr. Cavanaugh
- Desperate Journey
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Prosecutor
- 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
- The Biscuit Eater as Mr. Ames
- Gaucho Serenade as Frederick Willoughby
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Mr. Lee
1939
- The Three Musketeers as Duke of Buckingham
- British Intelligence as Henry Thompson
- Susannah of the Mounties as Harlan Chambers
- Rulers of the Sea as Lieut. Roberts
- Conspiracy as Gair - Henchman
- Should a Girl Marry? as Dr. White
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir Ivor
- Mysterious Mr. Moto as Sir Charles Murchison
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart
- If I Were King as General Saliere
- There's Always a Woman as Walter Fraser
- I Am a Criminal as District Attorney George Lane
- Time Out for Murder as Phillip Gregory
- Think It Over as Ring Leader
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
- 15 Maiden Lane as Gilbert Lockhart
- Thank You, Jeeves! as Elliott Manville
- Song and Dance Man as C. B. Nelson
- Too Many Parents as Mark Stewart
1935
- The Raven as Dr. Jerry Holden
- Werewolf of London as Paul Ames
- 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
- Facing the Music as Becker
- She Was Only A Village Maiden as Frampton
- On Secret Service as Coloneilo Romanelli
- The Stolen Necklace as Clive Wingate
- The Melody-Maker as Tony Borrodaile
- Called Back as Gilbert Vaughan
1932
- Fires of Fate as Lt. Col Egerton
- Indiscretions of Eve as Ralph
- Her Night Out as Gerald Vickery
1931
- Gipsy Blood as Zuniga
- The Old Man as Keith Keller
- Creeping Shadows as Brian Nash
- The Wickham Mystery as Charles Wickham
- The Man at Six as Campbell Edwards