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John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad’s Army.
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John Le Mesurier Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Le Mesurier |
| Also Know | John LeMesurier, John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1912-04-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 71 |
| Deathday | 1983-11-15 |
John Le Mesurier Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Flat Two | 1962-02-01 | A victim’s boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer’s flat to sort him out, but another man’s already there, and both don’t realise the crook has been murd… | |
| Traitor | 1971-10-14 | Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Har… | |
| Dad’s Army | Sgt. Arthur Wilson | 1971-03-12 | Dad’s Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad’s Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and fou… |
| A Christmas Carol | Marley’s Ghost | 1977-12-24 | “If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a st… |
| Tea Party | 1965-03-25 | Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … . Why do… | |
| File It Under Fear | Mr. Stubbs | 1973-06-01 | File It Under Fear takes place in an outwardly normal rural British community. The tranquility is shattered by a series of brutal murders, all of them… |
| The Pleasure Garden | 1953-10-16 | People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all le… | |
| Long Past Glory | Harry | 1963-11-17 | Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They’re joined … |
| John Le Mesurier: It’s All Been Rather Lovely | Himself | 2012-04-27 | Michael Palin, Clive Dunn and Ian Lavender are among those who contribute to this candid portrait of actor John Le Mesurier…. |
| Where the Spies Are | Mc Gillivray | 1966-01-26 | A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co… |
| Jabberwocky | Passelewe | 1977-03-28 | A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. T… |
| Stand up, Virgin Soldiers | Col. Bromley-Pickering | 1977-04-04 | Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists…. |
| What’s Up Nurse | Dr. Ogden | 1978-06-30 | When Dr. Robert “Sweeney” Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their … |
| Escape from Broadmoor | Pendicot | 1948-11-30 | A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge…. |
| Man with a Gun | Harry Drayson | 1958-08-11 | A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of th… |
| A Matter of Murder | Ginter | 1949-12-01 | An embezzler is implicated in his girlfriend’s murder…. |
| Dead Lucky | 1960-06-01 | Mike Billing’s newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. B… | |
| Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle | Mr. Elvin | When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress’s letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and h… | |
| Unidentified Flying Oddball | Sir Gawain | 1979-07-10 | A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur’s Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble… |
| Private’s Progress | Psychiatrist | 1956-02-17 | Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be office… |
| The Rebel | Office manager | 1961-03-07 | Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Never… |
| Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse | Sir Archibald MacGregor | 1978-02-01 | Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide’s Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can’t keep their hands off… |
| Dark Interval | Cedric, the butler | 1950-11-01 | A young woman marries and moves into her husband’s family mansion. She soon discovers that neither the house, nor her husband, is exactly what it seem… |
| Blind Spot | Mr. Brent | 1958-07-01 | US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves … |
| Mister Ten Per Cent | Jocelyn Macauley | 1967-01-01 | Percy Pointer’s passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it’s finished it arrives on the desk … |
| The Cuckoo Patrol | Gibbs | 1967-07-16 | Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp…. |
| The Bulldog Breed | Prosecuting counsel | 1960-12-13 | Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), a well-meaning but clumsy grocer’s assistant, can’t seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the lov… |
| Invasion Quartet | 1961-09-01 | This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied … | |
| Jigsaw | Mr Simpson | 1962-08-21 | A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up… |
| Old Mother Riley’s New Venture | 1949-07-01 | Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel – stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow…. | |
| The Passionate Pilgrim | The Narrator | 1984-01-01 | A pilgrim attempts to gain entry to a castle by any means possible, to get to a beautiful maiden, but the lord of the castle will go to in order to st… |
| The Drayton Case | Divisional Superintendent Henley | 1953-02-01 | During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman…. |
| Salt & Pepper | Col. Woodstock | 1968-07-03 | After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partak… |
| We Joined the Navy | George Dewberry Sr. | 1963-05-17 | Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the righ… |
| Only Two Can Play | Salter | 1962-01-19 | John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys … |
| The Alf Garnett Saga | Frewin | 1972-08-30 | Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new ‘home’… |
| Very Important Person | Piggott, Escape Officer | 1961-04-24 | Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist … |
| The Punch and Judy Man | The Sandman | 1963-01-01 | Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who g… |
| Village of Daughters | Don Calogere | 1962-03-13 | A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son…. |
| The Early Bird | Colonel Foster | 1965-11-30 | Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best … |
| Too Many Crooks | Magistrate | 1959-03-08 | Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon – who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Re… |
| Jack the Ripper | Dr. Tranter | 1959-05-28 | A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case…. |
| Death in the Hand | Jack Mottram | 1948-03-29 | A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen…. |
| A Married Man | Eustace Lough | 1983-07-10 | British television movie in which a married lawyer’s excursion into adultery leads to murder…. |
| War-Gods of the Deep | Rev. Jonathan Ives | 1965-05-26 | A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their k… |
| Facelift | Bruce | 1984-04-21 | In a dystopian future, the population is divided between the elite “numbers” and the destitute “names” who escape the hardships of the their lives at … |
| The Liquidator | Chekhov | 1965-11-01 | Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was h… |
| Blind Man’s Bluff | Lefty Jones | 1952-01-01 | Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell’s efforts to emulate his father usually results in… |
| The Main Attraction | Bozo | 1962-11-01 | An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn’t commit hides out in a circus…. |
| Dangerous Cargo | Luigi | 1954-05-01 | Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shi… |
| Police Dog | Inspector | 1955-05-01 | When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler…. |
| Masquerade | Sir Robert | 1965-04-13 | The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince…. |
| Confessions of a Window Cleaner | Inspector Radlett | 1974-01-01 | Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Youn… |
| Doctor in Love | Dr Mincing | 1960-07-12 | Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c… |
| Our Man in Marrakesh | George Lillywhite | 1966-05-05 | One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes… |
| The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | Green | 1960-09-04 | London at the turn of the century. Three men is on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their l… |
| The Blue Parrot | Henry Carson | 1953-10-01 | ‘Rocks’ Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland … |
| Never Put It in Writing | Adams | 1964-04-27 | … |
| Blood of the Vampire | Chief Justice | 1958-08-25 | A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crip… |
| The Moon-Spinners | Anthony Gamble | 1964-01-01 | Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is… |
| Follow a Star | Birkett | 1959-01-01 | Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman si… |
| The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother | Lord Redcliff | 1975-12-14 | After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to… |
| The Mouse on the Moon | British Delegate | 1963-05-07 | Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new s… |
| Five Golden Hours | Dr. Alfiera | 1961-02-01 | A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely barones… |
| Eye of the Devil | Dr. Monnet | 1966-11-18 | A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret…. |
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Perkins | 1980-08-08 | Fu Manchu’s 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu’s age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ing… |
| Carlton-Browne of the F.O. | Grand Duke Alexis | 1959-03-10 | Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king … |
| Midas Run | Wells | 1969-05-07 | A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted…. |
| The Night We Got the Bird | Clerk of the Court | 1960-11-03 | Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn…. |
| The Shillingbury Blowers | 1980-01-06 | A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the pre… | |
| These Dangerous Years | Commanding Officer | 1957-07-03 | A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier…. |
| Brief Encounter | Stephen | 1974-11-12 | Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair…. |
| Let’s Get Married | 1960-03-22 | A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion mod… | |
| The Pink Panther | Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier) | 1963-12-18 | The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom’s exploi… |
| Hot Enough for June | Roger Allsop | 1964-01-01 | A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier…. |
| A Time to Kill | Phinneas Tilliard | 1955-11-01 | A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper jour… |
| In the Cool of the Day | Dr. Arraman | 1963-05-29 | After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband’s ex-colleague who… |
| The Italian Job | Governor | 1969-06-02 | Charlie’s got a ‘job’ to do. Having just left prison he finds one his of friends has attempted a high risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose … |
| The Magic Christian | Sir John | 1969-12-12 | Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone–and anything–can be bought… |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Barrymore | 1959-05-04 | When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate…. |
| The Wrong Arm of the Law | Assistant Commissioner | 1963-03-17 | The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as p… |
| On the Fiddle | Hixon | 1961-10-10 | Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl… |
| High Flight | Commandant | 1957-09-17 | The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young…. |
| The Baby and the Battleship | The Marshal’s Aide | 1956-06-01 | After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to re… |
| School for Scoundrels | Head Waiter | 1960-03-24 | Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen… |
| Another Time, Another Place | Dr. Aldridge | 1958-05-02 | In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fe… |
| The Captain’s Table | Sir Angus | 1959-01-06 | A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take… |
| Don’t Bother to Knock | Father | 1961-05-28 | An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as … |
| The Lady is a Square | Fergusson | 1959-02-03 | Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband’s symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a… |
| Doctor in Trouble | Purser | 1970-06-16 | Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn’t have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise sh… |
| Brothers in Law | His Honour Judge Ryman | 1957-03-04 | Roger Thursby (Ian Carmichael) is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at t… |
| I’m All Right Jack | Waters | 1959-08-18 | Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start fr… |
| Never Let Go | Pennington | 1960-06-02 | John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic org… |
| The Moonraker | Cromwell | 1958-08-02 | After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future kin… |
| The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Attorney | 1959-11-17 | A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a resu… |
| Mr. Topaze | Blackmailer | 1961-04-04 | Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses t… |
| The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk | Judge | 1958-01-21 | American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The co… |
| Happy Is the Bride | Chaytor | 1958-03-04 | In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else… |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Dr. Deere | 1978-09-13 | Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each… |
| Shake Hands with the Devil | British General | 1959-06-24 | In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the “Black & Tans,” special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O’Shea ho… |
| Stranger from Venus | Official | 1954-08-23 | A stranger turns up at an English country pub and asks to stay, although reveals that he has no money. He even claims to have no name. The police beco… |
| The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s | Minister of Education | 1960-12-22 | The fourth form monsters’ latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breath… |
| Desert Mice | Staff Colonel | 1959-01-05 | A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble th… |
| The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel | Judge Grayson | 1969-10-01 | A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of … |
| Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes | French Painter | 1965-06-16 | In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the Eng… |
| Law and Disorder | Sir Humphrey Pomfret | 1958-06-09 | When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out abo… |
| The Sandwich Man | Religious Sandwich Man | 1966-07-01 | A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters…. |
| Au Pair Girls | Mr. Wainwright | 1972-07-01 | Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyo… |
| Josephine and Men | Registrar | 1955-11-09 | 1955 British comedy starring Glynis Johns…. |
| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Pelham | 1970-06-17 | Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities…. |
| Make Me an Offer! | Mr. Toshack | 1954-12-08 | A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of othe… |
| The Wrong Box | Dr Slattery | 1966-06-19 | In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so…. |
| Go to Blazes | Fisherman | 1962-04-18 | A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio… |
| The Battle of the River Plate | Reverend George Groves – Padre, HMS Exeter | 1956-10-30 | In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Is… |
| Three for All | Mr. Gibbons | 1975-05-01 | A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain… |
| Ben-Hur | Doctor (uncredited) | 1959-11-18 | In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of tr… |
| I Was Monty’s Double | Adjutant RAPC | 1958-10-21 | The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German’s about his intentions befo… |
| The Good Companions | Monte Mortimer | 1957-04-22 | The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth…. |
| Gideon’s Day | Barrister | 1958-03-25 | Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t… |
| A Touch of Larceny | Head of the Admiralty (uncredited) | 1960-02-04 | After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that… |
| Casino Royale | M’s Driver (uncredited) | 1967-04-13 | Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be… |
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