Bernard Lee

Highest Rated:
100% Last Holiday (1950)
Lowest Rated:
46% The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Birthday:
Jan 10, 1908
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Bio:
Best remembered as 'M' in the James Bond films, Bernard Lee was a popular character player in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Born into a theatrical family, he made his stage debut aged six and later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He first appeared on the West End stage in…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 46% - 100%
Number of Movies: 60
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2003 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  • Actor
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1979 62% Moonraker
  • "M"
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1977 78% The Spy Who Loved Me
  • "M"
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1974 46% The Man with the Golden Gun
  • "M"
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1974 Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
  • Tarmut
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1973 65% Live and Let Die
  • M
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1971 63% 10 Rillington Place
  • Inspector 'J'
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1971 The Raging Moon (Long Ago, Tomorrow)
  • Uncle Bob
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1971 65% Diamonds Are Forever
  • M
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1969 Crossplot
  • Chilmore
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1969 81% On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • "M"
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1968 Journey to Midnight
  • Actor
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1967 71% You Only Live Twice
  • "M"
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1967 OK Connery (Operation Kid Brother) (Secret Agent 00) (Operation Double 007)
  • Commander Cunningham
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1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (The Blood Suckers)
  • Hopkins
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1965 85% Thunderball
  • M
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1965 Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  • Landlord
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1965 83% The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Patmore
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1964 96% Goldfinger
  • M
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1963 The L-Shaped Room
  • Charlie
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1963 96% From Russia With Love
  • M
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1962 98% Dr. No
  • M
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1962 Brain
  • Frank Shears
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1962 100% Whistle Down the Wind
  • Mr. Bostock
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1961 The Secret Partner
  • Detective Superintendent Hanbury
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1960 Cone of Silence
  • Capt. George Gort
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1960 The Angry Silence
  • Bert Connolly
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1960 Kidnapped
  • Capt. Hoseason
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1959 Breakout (Danger Within)
  • Actor
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1958 Dunkirk
  • Charles Foreman
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1958 Nowhere to Go
  • Vic Sloane
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1958 The Key
  • Wadlow
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1957 Fire Down Below
  • Dr. Sam
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1957 The Spanish Gardener
  • Leighton Bailey
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1957 Across the Bridge
  • Detective Inspector Hadden
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1956 80% The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee)
  • Capt. Patrick Dove "Africa Shell"
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1955 The Ship That Died Of Shame
  • Customs Officer
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1955 Out of the Clouds
  • Customs Officer
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1954 The Purple Plain
  • Dr. Harris
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1954 Father Brown (The Detective)
  • Insp. Valentine
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1953 Yellow Balloon
  • Constable Chapman
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1953 67% Beat the Devil
  • Insp. Clayton
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1953 Sailor of the King
  • Petty Officer Wheatley
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1952 Gift Horse (Glory at Sea)
  • Stripey Wood
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1951 Appointment with Venus
  • Brigadier
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1951 White Corridors
  • Burgess
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1950 Morning Departure
  • Commander Gates
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1950 Odette
  • Jack
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1950 100% Last Holiday
  • Inspector Wilton
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1949 The Blue Lamp
  • Inspector Cherry
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1949 100% The Third Man
  • Sgt. Paine
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1948 Quartet
  • Prison Visitor
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1948 100% The Fallen Idol
  • Detective Hart
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1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead
  • John 1903
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1940 Murder in the Night
  • Roy Barnes
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1939 The Frozen Limits
  • Bill McGrew
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1939 Terror
  • Ferdie Fane
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1937 The Black Tulip
  • William of Orange
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1936 Rhodes of Africa
  • Cartwright
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1933 Deadwood Pass
  • Actor
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Quotes from Bernard Lee's Characters

    1. James Bond: Suppose when we meet in the flesh, I don't come up to her expectations.
    2. M: Just see that you do.
    From From Russia With Love. Submitted by Jack P (8 months ago)
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