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 Inspector T. Carnahan
- 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
- Moonfleet as Major Hennishaw
- The Far Horizons as Mr. Hancock
- Ten Wanted Men as Adam Stewart
- 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
- King Richard and the Crusaders as Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
- Désirée as Caulaincourt (uncredited)
- Charge of the Lancers as Gen. Stanhope
- Jungle Man-Eaters as Comm. Kingston
1953
- You Are There
- 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
- Bad for Each Other as Dr. Homer Gleeson
- Man in the Attic as Chief Insp. Melville
- 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)
- Captain Pirate as Col. Ramsey
- Lady in the Iron Mask as Prime Minister Rochard
- The Brigand as Dr. Lopez
- Operation Secret as Robbins
- 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)
- The Son of Dr. Jekyll as Sir John Utterson
- The Lady and the Bandit as Ridgely, Joyce's Interrogator
- Lorna Doone as King Charles II
1950
- The Jack Benny Program as Sponsor
- Lux Video Theatre as John Hillgrove
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Mr. Duffy
- 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)
- Dark Delusion as Wyndham Grace
- The Exile as Robbins
- 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
- I Love a Mystery as Justin Reeves / Mr. G
- Jungle Queen as Commissioner Braham Chatterton
1944
- The Invisible Man's Revenge as Sir Jasper Herrick
- Between Two Worlds as Steamship Dispatcher (uncredited)
- 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
- Two Tickets to London as Treathcote (uncredited)
- Northern Pursuit as Colonel (uncredited)
- Corvette K-225 as British Captain
- Appointment in Berlin as Air Marshal (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Doctor as Dr. Frederick Holmes
- London Blackout Murders as Oliver Madison
1942
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Prosecutor
- Across the Pacific as Canadian Major
- 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
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Mr. Lee
- The Biscuit Eater as Mr. Ames
- Gaucho Serenade as Frederick Willoughby
1939
- Susannah of the Mounties as Harlan Chambers
- The Three Musketeers as Duke of Buckingham
- Conspiracy as Gair - Henchman
- Rulers of the Sea as Lieut. Roberts
- British Intelligence as Henry Thompson
- Should a Girl Marry? as Dr. White
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir Ivor
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Dr. Alonzo Z. Stewart
- If I Were King as General Saliere
- Mysterious Mr. Moto as Sir Charles Murchison
- There's Always a Woman as Walter Fraser
- Time Out for Murder as Phillip Gregory
- 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
- Thank You, Jeeves! as Elliott Manville
- Too Many Parents as Mark Stewart
- Crack-Up as Sidney Grant
- 15 Maiden Lane as Gilbert Lockhart
- Song and Dance Man as C. B. Nelson
1935
- Werewolf of London as Paul Ames
- The Raven as Dr. Jerry Holden
- Professional Soldier as Prince Edric
1934
- Blossom Time as Schwindt
- Borrowed Clothes as Sir Harry Torrent
1933
- She Was Only A Village Maiden as Frampton
- On Secret Service as Coloneilo Romanelli
- Called Back as Gilbert Vaughan
- Facing the Music as Becker
- The Song You Gave Me as Max Winter
- The Stolen Necklace as Clive Wingate
- The Melody-Maker as Tony Borrodaile
1932
- Indiscretions of Eve as Ralph
- Fires of Fate as Lt. Col Egerton
- Her Night Out as Gerald Vickery
1931
- Creeping Shadows as Brian Nash
- The Old Man as Keith Keller
- Gipsy Blood as Zuniga
- The Man at Six as Campbell Edwards
- The Wickham Mystery as Charles Wickham