John Le Mesurier — Actor (21)
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The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Wrong Arm of the Law
director: Cliff Owen actor: Peter Sellers / Lionel Jeffries …
other title: Il braccio sbagliato della legge / Lovens korte arm …
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 police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
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Another Time, Another Place (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Another Time, Another Place
director: Lewis Allen actor: Lana Turner / Barry Sullivan …
other title: Estasi d'amore - Operazione Love / Elsket af to kvinder …
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
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Blood of the Vampire (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Blood of the Vampire
director: Henry Cass actor: Donald Wolfit / Vincent Ball …
other title: Il sangue del vampiro / Der Dämon mit den blutigen Händen …
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 crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.
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The Liquidator (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Liquidator
director: Jack Cardiff actor: Rod Taylor / Trevor Howard …
other title: S.S.S. sicario servizio speciale / Assassino de Encomenda …
Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.
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Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Our Man in Marrakesh
director: Don Sharp actor: Tony Randall / Senta Berger …
other title: Il nostro uomo a Marrakesh / Marrakesch …
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. But which one?
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The 25th Hour (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Vingt-cinquième Heure
director: Henri Verneuil actor: Anthony Quinn / Virna Lisi …
other title: La 25ª ora / Femogtyvende time …
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
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The Rebel (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Rebel
director: Robert Day actor: Tony Hancock / George Sanders …
other title: Le rebelle / Der Rebell
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. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
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Too Many Crooks (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Too Many Crooks
director: Mario Zampi actor: Terry-Thomas / George Cole …
other title: La signora non è da squartare
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
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The Punch and Judy Man (1963) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Punch and Judy Man
director: Jeremy Summers actor: Tony Hancock / Sylvia Syms …
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 gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
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The Moon-Spinners (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Moon-Spinners
director: James Neilson actor: Hayley Mills / Eli Wallach …
other title: Giallo a Creta / Der Millionenschatz …
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 only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
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War-Gods of the Deep (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
City Under the Sea
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Vincent Price / David Tomlinson …
other title: 20.000 leghe sotto la Terra / Piratbyen under havet …
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...
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Salt & Pepper (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Salt & Pepper
director: Richard Donner actor: Sammy Davis Jr. / Peter Lawford …
other title: Sale e pepe: Super-spie hippy / Salz und Pfeffer …
After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
director: John Guillermin actor: Aldo Ray / Elizabeth Sellars …
other title: Furto alla banca d'Inghilterra / Bankraub des Jahrhunderts …
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
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Midas Run (1969) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Midas Run
director: Alf Kjellin actor: Richard Crenna / Anne Heywood …
other title: Gestatten, das sind meine Kohlen! / La huida de Midas …
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
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Only Two Can Play (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Only Two Can Play
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Peter Sellers / Mai Zetterling …
other title: Sesso, peccato e castità / Lieben kann man nur zu zweit …
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 town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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Mr. Topaze (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mr. Topaze
director: Peter Sellers actor: Peter Sellers / Nadia Gray …
other title: A Solidão da Riqueza / Todos somos sinvergüenzas …
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.