Bernard Lee

Bernard Lee

1908-01-10 Brentford, London, England, UK 101 Credits

Biography

John Bernard "Bernard" Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.

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Best Ever Bond

2002

as M (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from inter...

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

1981

as Sgt. Ben

5.9
Acting

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15...

Moonraker

Moonraker

1979

as M

6.2
Acting

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the co...

Death Becomes Me

Death Becomes Me

1979

as Sam Milford

Acting

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investig...

Seawrack

Seawrack

1978

as Man

Acting

On the shoreline of Lancashire's Lune Estuary, an old tramp is befriended by a young lad who volunteers with the St John's Ambulance.

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

1977

as Ghost of Christmas Present

6.6
Acting

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

as M

6.8
Acting

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

1976

as Edward Beaumont

5.8
Acting

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

From Hong Kong with Love

From Hong Kong with Love

1975

as M

4.7
Acting

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les...

Murrain

Murrain

1975

as Beeley

6.7
Acting

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is...

The Man with the Golden Gun

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974

as M

6.4
Acting

Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths wit...

Percy's Progress

Percy's Progress

1974

as Barraclough

3.6
Acting

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

1974

as Tarmut

6.2
Acting

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose...

Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die

1973

as M

6.5
Acting

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big...

The Man Who Died Twice

The Man Who Died Twice

1973

as Francis Cumberland

Acting

A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.

The Man in a Looking Glass

1972

as Morgan Travis

7.0
Acting

A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. Edited from TV series, The Baron.

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

as M

6.4
Acting

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The missio...

Dulcima

Dulcima

1971

as Mr Gaskain

7.3
Acting

Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm....

The Raging Moon

The Raging Moon

1971

as Uncle Bob

6.5
Acting

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then h...

Danger Point

1971

6.0
Acting

Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the bo...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

as M

6.6
Acting

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. ...

Crossplot

Crossplot

1969

as Chilmore

5.5
Acting

A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination...

You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice

1967

as M

6.6
Acting

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c...

Operation Kid Brother

Operation Kid Brother

1967

as Commander Cunningham

4.4
Acting

The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind...

The Night Before The Morning After

The Night Before The Morning After

1966

as Daniel Whittaker

Acting

Susan and Neville begin to have doubts the evening before their wedding.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1965

as Patmore

7.1
Acting

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one...

Thunderball

Thunderball

1965

as M

6.7
Acting

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they wil...

The Incredible World of James Bond

The Incredible World of James Bond

1965

as Bernard Lee: M (Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG)

6.0
Acting

This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander ...

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

1965

as Jeremiah

Acting

When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluc...

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965

as Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")

6.4
Acting

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An arch...

Goldfinger

Goldfinger

1964

as M

7.4
Acting

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to pre...

Who Was Maddox?

Who Was Maddox?

1964

8.5
Acting

A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.

Saturday Night Out

Saturday Night Out

1964

as George Hudson

5.7
Acting

Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.

Ring of Spies

Ring of Spies

1964

as Henry Houghton

6.9
Acting

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establi...

From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love

1963

as M

7.1
Acting

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa K...

A Place to Go

A Place to Go

1963

as Matt Flint

6.2
Acting

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-cl...

Two Left Feet

Two Left Feet

1963

as Mr Crabbe

5.0
Acting

Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a callow youth desperate for a date with any girl wh...

The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room

1962

as Charlie

6.8
Acting

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte...

Dr. No

Dr. No

1962

as M

7.0
Acting

Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go ...

The Brain

The Brain

1962

as Dr. Frank Shears

5.6
Acting

A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer

The Share Out

The Share Out

1962

4.0
Acting

A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.

Clue of the Silver Key

Clue of the Silver Key

1961

as Superintendent Meredith

7.0
Acting

The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.

Whistle Down the Wind

Whistle Down the Wind

1961

as Mr. Bostock

7.1
Acting

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of ...

The Secret Partner

The Secret Partner

1961

as D.S. Frank Hanbury

5.8
Acting

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime

1961

as Inspector Mann

5.7
Acting

British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John Van Eyssen, loosely based on the 1918 novel "The Man Who...

Fury at Smugglers' Bay

Fury at Smugglers' Bay

1961

as Black John

5.0
Acting

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. B...

Clue of the Twisted Candle

Clue of the Twisted Candle

1960

7.0
Acting

A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.

Cone of Silence

Cone of Silence

1960

as Capt. George Gort

6.7
Acting

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for ...

The Angry Silence

The Angry Silence

1960

as Bert Connolly

7.1
Acting

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.

Kidnapped

Kidnapped

1960

as Captain Hoseason

6.4
Acting

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, ...

Sink the Bismarck!

Sink the Bismarck!

1960

as Firing Officer (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...

Web of Evidence

Web of Evidence

1959

as Patrick Mathry

4.8
Acting

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

Danger Within

Danger Within

1959

as Lieutenant Colonel Huxley

6.2
Acting

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysteriou...

Nowhere to Go

Nowhere to Go

1958

as Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson

6.7
Acting

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs

1958

as Inspector Thompson

6.1
Acting

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist w...

The Key

The Key

1958

as Cmdr. Wadlow

6.0
Acting

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to...

Dunkirk

Dunkirk

1958

as Charles Foreman

6.8
Acting

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain someh...

High Flight

High Flight

1957

as Flight Sergeant Harris

5.8
Acting

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.

Across the Bridge

Across the Bridge

1957

as Chief Inspector Hadden

6.8
Acting

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below

1957

as Doctor Sam

5.7
Acting

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless I...

The Spanish Gardener

The Spanish Gardener

1956

as Leighton Bailey

6.2
Acting

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harri...

The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate

1956

as Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell

6.2
Acting

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...

The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame

1955

as Customs Officer Brewster

6.9
Acting

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudab...

Out of the Clouds

Out of the Clouds

1955

as Customs Officer

6.7
Acting

A day following workers at an airport

The Purple Plain

The Purple Plain

1954

as Dr. Harris

6.4
Acting

An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has...

Seagulls Over Sorrento

Seagulls Over Sorrento

1954

as Lofty Turner

5.4
Acting

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.

Father Brown

Father Brown

1954

as Inspector Valentine

6.4
Acting

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

1953

as Insp. Jack Clayton

6.2
Acting

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

Sailor of the King

Sailor of the King

1953

as Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley

6.8
Acting

A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under...

The Yellow Balloon

The Yellow Balloon

1953

as Constable Chapman

5.6
Acting

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

Gift Horse

Gift Horse

1952

as A.S. 'Stripey' Wood

6.6
Acting

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 19...

Mr. Denning Drives North

Mr. Denning Drives North

1951

as Inspector Dodds

6.0
Acting

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and...

Appointment with Venus

Appointment with Venus

1951

as Brigadier

5.1
Acting

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on t...

Calling Bulldog Drummond

Calling Bulldog Drummond

1951

as Colonel Webson

5.8
Acting

Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

Fortune in Diamonds

Fortune in Diamonds

1951

as O'Connell

7.5
Acting

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where hi...

White Corridors

White Corridors

1951

as Burgess

6.6
Acting

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a bus...

Cage of Gold

Cage of Gold

1950

as Inspector Grey

6.6
Acting

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

Odette

Odette

1950

as Jack

6.2
Acting

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemne...

Last Holiday

Last Holiday

1950

as Inspector Wilton

7.1
Acting

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside...

Morning Departure

Morning Departure

1950

as Cmdr. Gates

6.6
Acting

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

1950

as Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

6.6
Acting

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the ...

The Third Man

The Third Man

1949

as Sergeant Paine

7.9
Acting

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he ...

I Have Been Here Before

1949

as Walter Ormund

Acting

Guests at an hotel become irrationally convinced that they have been there before - perhaps in a different life?

Elizabeth of Ladymead

Elizabeth of Ladymead

1948

as John Beresford in 1903

6.0
Acting

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

Quartet

Quartet

1948

as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")

6.2
Acting

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

1948

as Detective Hart

7.2
Acting

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes ...

The Adventures of Dusty Bates

The Adventures of Dusty Bates

1947

as Captain Ford

4.0
Acting

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

1947

as Colonel Gascoyne

4.9
Acting

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then...

This Man Is Mine

This Man Is Mine

1946

as James Nicholls

Acting

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

The New Lot

The New Lot

1943

as Interviewing Officer

Acting

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.

Once a Crook

1941

as Duke

Acting

Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Ra...

Spare a Copper

Spare a Copper

1940

as Jake

6.8
Acting

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destructi...

Let George Do It!

Let George Do It!

1940

as Oscar

5.8
Acting

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken ...

The Frozen Limits

The Frozen Limits

1939

as Bill McGrew

7.5
Acting

The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.

Murder in Soho

Murder in Soho

1939

as Roy Barnes

5.0
Acting

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

The Outsider

The Outsider

1939

as Cameraman

5.0
Acting

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.

The Terror

The Terror

1938

as Ferry Fane

6.3
Acting

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, hav...

Rhodes of Africa

Rhodes of Africa

1936

as Cartwright

6.0
Acting

Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston,...

The River House Mystery

1936

as Wade Belloc

Acting
The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip

N/A

as William Of Orange

Acting

In the Dutch Republic in 1672, a wealthy man named Cornelius Van Baerle devotes his life to growing tulips, unaware of his family's close involvement ...