Dad's Army - John Le Mesurier Film

Born: 5th April 1912, Chaucer Road, Bedford, England, as John Charles Elton Le Mesurier de Somerys Halliley

Died: 15 November 1983, in Ramsgate Hospital, after a long fight with liver disease

Parents: Son of Charles Elton Halliley and Anne Michelle Halliley (nee Le Mesurier)

Married: John had three wives:
- June Melville, an actress/director/producer, born 1915, died 1970 (married 1939-47, divorced)
- Hattie Jacques, an actress, born as Josephine Edwina Jacques on 7 Feb 1924, died 6 Oct 1980 (1952 - 65, divorced)
- Joan Malin, a circus performer (married 2 March 1966 till his death, now widow Joan Le Mesurier)

Children: Robin and Kim Le Mesurier, sons from marriage to Hattie Jacques. Kim (known as Jake) died in 1990, aged 35.

Biographies and Books of Interest:
A Jobbing Actor - by John Le Mesurier (autobiography)
Lady Don't Fall Backwards - by Joan Le Mesurier (the __autobiography of John's wife, with much about him)
Dear John - by Joan Le Mesurier (biography)

Acknowledgements: SFTA award for Best Television Actor 1971, for dramatic lead role in Dennis Potter’s television play Traitor

Professional Debut: The Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh, in repertory, 1935

John Le Mesurier's Film Career
Film	Role	Notes	Date
Old Mother Riley’s New Venture Escape From Broadmoor Death In The Hand A Matter Of Murder Dark Interval Never Take No For An Answer Old Mother Riley Meets The Vampire Blind Man’s Bluff Scotland Yard The Blue Parrot The Pleasure Garden Black 13 Beautiful Stranger Stranger From Venus Dangerous Cargo Police Dog Josephine and Men Private’s Progress Time to Kill The Baby And The Battleship The Battle Of The River Plate High Flight Good Companions Brothers In Law Happy Is The Bride These Dangerous Years The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk The Admirable Crichton Too Many Crooks Blind Spot The Moonraker Blood Of The Vampire I Was Monty’s Double Gideon’s Day Another Time, Another Place Law And Disorder The Lady Is A Square Jack The Ripper Carlton Browne Of The F.O. The Captain’s Table The Man With A Gun The Man Who Wouldn't Talk The Wreck Of The Mary Deare Operation Amsterdam Follow A Star Desert Mice The Hound Of The Baskervilles Shake Hands With The Devil Ben Hur I’m All Right Jack The Day They Robbed The Bank Of __England School For Scoundrels Dead Lucky The Bulldog Breed Doctor In Love Never Let Go The Rebel The Night We Got The Bird Five Golden Hours Let’s Get Married Don’t Bother To Knock The Pure Hell Of St Trinian’s Operation Snafu Mr Topaze Hair Of The Dog Very Important Person Invasion Quartet Go To Blazes Village Of Daughters Edgar Wallace Mysteries: Flat Two Coming-Out Party In The Cool Of The Day The Punch And Judy Man We Joined The Navy The Wrong Arm Of The Law Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys The Main Attraction Jigsaw Only Two Can Play Waltz Of The Toreadors Mouse On The Moon The Pink Panther Hot Enough For June Never Put It In Writing The Moon Spinners The Liquidator The Early Bird Masquerade Where The Spies Are Those Magnificent Men In Their __ Flying Machines City Under The Sea Mr Ten Per Cent Our Man In Marrakesh The Wrong Box The Sandwich Man Finder’s Keepers Eye Of The Devil Casino Royale Cuckoo Patrol The Twenty-Fifth Hour Salt And Pepper The Italian Job The Midas Run The Magic Christian Doctor In Trouble On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Dad’s Army Au Pair Girls The Garnett Saga Barry Mackenzie Holds His Own Confessions Of A Window Cleaner Three For All Brief Encounter The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ __Smarter Brother What’s Up Nurse! Jabberwocky Stand Up Virgin Soldiers Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of __Europe? The Spaceman And King Arthur The Shillingbury Blowers The Fiendish Plot Of Dr. Fu Manchu Late Flowering Love Facelift	Karl Pendicot Jack Mottram Ginter Cedric the Butler ?? uncredited Lefty Jones Inspector Henley Carson Colonel Pall K. Gargoyle Inspector uncredited Man at Desk Luigi Inspector Registrar Psychiatrist Phineas Russian Naval Officer Padre on HMS Exeter Commandant Monte Mortimer Judge Ryeman Chaytor Army Officer Judge uncredited Magistrate Brent Oliver Cromwell Chief Justice Adjutant R.A.P.C. Attorney Dr. Aldridge Sir Humphrey Pomfret Ferguson Dr. Tranter Grand Duke Alexis Sir Angus Harry Drayson The Judge M.O.A. Lawyer Dutch Colonel Birkett Staff Colonel Barrymore British General Roman doctor Waters Green _ Head Waiter Inspector Corcoran Lawyer Dr. Mincing Pennington Office Manager Clerk of the Court Dr. Alfieri Dean Father Minister Hixon Blackmailer Sir Mortimer Gallant Escape Officer Colonel Fisherman Don Calogere Warden Piaaott Persian doctor Charles Dewberry Assistant Commissioner Coles Bozo Mr. Simpson Charles Salter Vicar British Delegate Defence Lawyer Roger Allsop Adams Anthony Gamble Chekhov Colonel Foster Sir Robert Col. MacGillivray French Painter _ Rev. Jonathon Ives Jocelyn Macauley George Lillywhite Dr. Slattery Sandwich Man Mr. X Dr. Monnet Driver Gibbs High Court Judge Colonel Woodstock Prison Governor Wells Sir John(uncredite) Purser Pelham Sgt Arthur Wilson Mr. Wainwright Frewin Robert Crowther Inspector Radlett Mr Gibbons Stephen Lord Redcliff _ Mr. Ogden Chamberlain Col. Bromley-Pickering Sir Archibald Macgregor Dr. Deere _ Sir Gawain Council Chairman Perkins _ Bruce (voice of)	music hall-style comedy short suspense drama short film crime drama crime drama comedy drama, aka The Small Miracle music hall-style comedy horror as a crook in crime thriller episode 1 ‘The Drayton Case’ in cinema serial crime thriller as the Inspector of Decency and Morals crime thriller melodrama/ mystery sci-fi crime film police mystery with alsatian dog romantic comedy comic Army farce with satirical overtones comic Navy farce fact based war story drama released UK 22 April 1957 comedy comedy drama, aka Dangerous Youth mystery/ spy/ courtroom melodrama comedy crime comedy drama period adventure horror comedy fact based war story police drama romance drama comedy comedy drama Boulting Bros comedy farce comedy mystery crime thriller drama adventure/melodrama, US made film semi-documentary war adventure comedy story of a WWII concert party mystery horror melodrama about IRA, made in Eire epic drama comedy heist drama _ comedy crime film by Ruth Rendall comedy comedy thriller comedy with Tony Hancock farce black comedy, made in UK and Italy drama farce, with John Laurie as Taxi Driver comedy comedy, aka ‘On The Fiddle’ comedy, aka I Like Money comedy comedy farce comedy, no dialogue, just appears comedy mystery ?? drama comedy, as the Sandman farce comedy farce melodrama murder mystery comedy comedy comedy comedy spoof comedy, aka Agent 83/4 (US) farce adventure, aka The Moonspinners spoof on James Bond farce spy adventure spy adventure comedy _ sci-fi, aka War Gods Of The Deep comedy, also with John Laurie comedy-thriller farce comedy variety musical comedy horror spoof on James Bond Grand National adventure made by France, Italy and Yugoslavia murder mystery bullion heist adventure bullion heist, aka A Run For Gold weird "comedy", with Clive Dunn and Edward Sinclair comedy romantic musical, US made comedy, television spin-off comedy spin-off from Till Death Us Do Part Australian comedy, as English emigrant comedy musical, also with Ian Lavender romance, remake made for TV parody _ comedy, with Bill Pertwee comedy, also with Frank Williams comedy comedy black comedy _ comedy, aka Unidentified Flying Oddball drama comedy, also with Clive Dunn dramatisation of poems by Sir John Betjeman musical Sci-fi, released posthumously	1947 1948 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1952 1953 1953 1953 1954 1954 1954 1954 1955 1955 1955 1955 1956 1956 1957 1957 1957 1957 1957 1957 1957 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1959 1959 1959 1959 1959 1959 1959 1959 1960 _ 1960 1960 1960 1960 1960 1960 1960 1960 1960 1961 1961 1961 1961 1961 1961 1961 1961 1961 1961 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1963 1963 1964 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 _ 1965 1966 1966 1966 1966 1966 1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1969 1969 1970 1970 1970 1971 1972 1972 1974 1974 1974 1974 1975 _ 1977 1977 1977 1978 1978 _ 1979 1980 1980 1980 1984
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