Personal Info
Birth date
1912-04-05 (113 Years)
Day of death
1983-11-15
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Also known as
John LeMesurier
John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley
John Le Mesurier
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Le Mesurier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Avengers
7.734
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Hancock's Half Hour
7.5
Overview:
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Morecambe & Wise
6.5
Overview:
The Morecambe & Wise Show is the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in colour, following the duo's move to the BBC from ATV, where they had made Two of a Kind since 1961. The series was popular enough to be moved to BBC1, with its Christmas specials garnering prime-time audiences in excess of 20 million, some of the largest in British television history. After their 1977 Christmas special, retaining its title, the show moved over to ITV.The Goodies
7.5
Overview:
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.Dad's Army
7.4
Overview:
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.Interpol Calling
6.7
Overview:
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.Sykes
6.4
Overview:
Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.The Adventures of William Tell
6.3
Overview:
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.Thriller
6.6
Overview:
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.Hi-de-Hi!
7
Overview:
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.Adam Adamant Lives!
7.5
Overview:
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.Brideshead Revisited
7.9
Overview:
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.Worzel Gummidge
6.2
Overview:
Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as Worzel Gummidge Down Under, which was set in New Zealand.Jason King
7.3
Overview:
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Pardon the Expression
6
Overview:
Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966. The sitcom was one of only four spin-offs from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Pardon the Expression itself had a spin-off: Turn out the Lights broadcast in 1967. There wasn't to be another spin-off until the 1980s with The Brothers McGregor, which reused two characters who appeared in a single episode. Leonard Swindley was the central character. Formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street, in this series he is the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks. His boss in the series was Ernest Parbold played by Paul Dawkins who was replaced by Wally Hunt played by Robert Dorning in series 2. Other regulars were Betty Driver as canteen lady, Mrs Edgeley and Joy Stewart as Miss Sinclair, the boss's secretary.Dear Mother... ...Love Albert
5.5
Overview:
A British sitcom created by and starring Rodney Bewes, Bewes co-wrote and produced the series with Derrick Goodwin. The show proved popular and regularly made the TV ratings top ten throughout its three year run. There were 26 episodes, including the three Christmas specials, all three broadcast as part of All Star Comedy Carnival. The fourth and final series was broadcast as a sequel entitled Albert!, which ran for a further series of seven episodes. Series 1 was produced by Thames Television, while the subsequent series 2-4 were produced by Yorkshire Television.The Railway Children
NYR
Overview:
The first BBC TV version was presented as an 8 part x 30mins. serial between 6 Feb 1951 and 27 Mar 1951. The original production was broadcast live from the Children's TV studio at Lime Grove. There was one transmission during the week with a live repeat, often with a totally different crew, on Sundays. In those days, the amount of telecine (film inserts) was relatively small, so there was great pressure on the actors and the camera crews.George And The Dragon
6.7
Overview:
George and the Dragon is a British situation comedy made by ATV for the ITV network which was transmitted in four series comprising 26 episodes between 19 November 1966 and 31 October 1968. The regular cast is Sid James, Peggy Mount, John Le Mesurier and Keith Marsh and was written by Harry Driver and Vince Powell. Shaun O'Riordan was the director, while Alan Tarrant was the main producer.Black and Blue
6
Overview:
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted of 6 episodes of 50–60 minutes duration, each episode was a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection between them was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the last episode airing on 18 September 1973. The play Secrets was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the mastertape by its producer, Mark Shivas.Ben-Hur
7.888
Overview:
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 trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.Ripping Yarns
7.4
Overview:
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.Scotland Yard
NYR
Overview:
Scotland Yard was perhaps the best-known series to emerge from Anglo-Amalgamated’s output of crime drama. Shot as cinema support features at the company’s Merton Park Studios in South Wimbledon, these half-hour thrillers – based on real-life cases from the vaults of London’s Metropolitan Police headquarters – were a successful regular feature in cinemas over nearly a decade from the early 1950s onwards. Like sister series Scales of Justice, Scotland Yard is introduced by celebrated writer and criminologist Edgar Lustgarten and presents case after intriguing case, with many solved onscreen by the redoubtable Inspector Duggan (played by Australian-born Russell Napier).A Class by Himself
NYR
Overview:
A Class by Himself was a British sitcom, which aired from 1971 to 1972. The half-hour series was made by Harlech Television and starred John Le Mesurier of Dad's Army fame as Lord Bleasham.Bod
6.8
Overview:
Classic BBC children's animated television series about the adventures of a little boy who lives in a town with his friends Aunt Flo, P.C. Copper, Frank the Postman and Farmer Barleymow, also featuring Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band.The Italian Job
6.992
Overview:
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.Acting
TBATune On the Old Tax Fiddle as Mr. Elvin
2012John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely as Himself
2007Hitler: The Comedy Years as Sgt. Arthur Wilson (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001The Best of Morecambe and Wise as Self (archive footage)
1984Facelift as Bruce
1984The Passionate Pilgrim as The Narrator
1981Brideshead Revisited (11 Episodes) as Father Mowbray
1981Hi-de-Hi! (1 Episode) as Hugo Buxton
1980The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu as Perkins
1980The Shillingbury Blowers as Council Chairman
1979Roger of the Raj as Colonel Runciman
1979Unidentified Flying Oddball as Sir Gawain
1979Worzel Gummidge (1 Episode) as Baines
1978Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Dr. Deere
1978What's Up Nurse as Dr. Ogden
1978Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse as Sir Archibald MacGregor
1977A Christmas Carol as Marley's Ghost
1977Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Col. Bromley-Pickering
1977Jabberwocky as Passelewe
1976Ripping Yarns (1 Episode) as Col. Runciman
1975Bod (13 Episodes) as Narrator
1975The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother as Lord Redcliff
1975The Flight Fund as Uncle Edward
1975Three for All as Mr. Gibbons
1974Barry McKenzie Holds His Own as Robert Crowther
1974Brief Encounter as Stephen
1974Confessions of a Window Cleaner as Inspector Radlett
1974Pelican Crossing: Motorist - Cast of Dad's Army as Sergeant Wilson
1974Pelican Crossing: Pedestrians - Cast of Dad's Army as Sergeant Wilson
1973Rust as Sir Henry Hawkes
1973Black and Blue (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Thriller (1 Episode) as Stubbs
1972Anywhere but England as Freddie
1972Crown Court (1 Episode) as Reginald Standish
1972Sykes (1 Episode) as Lord Hetherington
1972The Alf Garnett Saga as Frewin
1972Au Pair Girls as Mr. Wainwright
1971Traitor as Adrian Harris
1971Jason King (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971Dad's Army as Sgt. Arthur Wilson
1971A Class by Himself (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1970The Goodies (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Uncle Tom
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970On a Clear Day You Can See Forever as Pelham
1970Doctor in Trouble as Purser
1969The Magic Christian as Sir John
1969The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel as Judge Grayson
1969Dear Mother... ...Love Albert (1 Episode) as Vicar
1969The Italian Job as Governor
1969Midas Run as Wells
1968Dad's Army (77 Episodes) as Sergeant Arthur Wilson
1968Salt & Pepper as Col. Woodstock
1967The Cuckoo Patrol as Gibbs
1967The 25th Hour as Tribunal President
1967Casino Royale as M's Driver (uncredited)
1967The Inn Way Out as Pub Bore
1967Mister Ten Per Cent as Jocelyn Macauley
1966Finders Keepers as Mr. X
1966George And The Dragon (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1966Eye of the Devil as Dr. Monnet
1966The Sandwich Man as Religious Sandwich Man
1966Adam Adamant Lives! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966The Wrong Box as Doctor Slattery
1966Our Man in Marrakesh as George Lillywhite
1966Macready's Gala as Canon Dunwoodie
1966Where the Spies Are as Mc Gillivray
1965The Early Bird as Colonel Foster
1965The Liquidator as Chekhov
1965Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as French Painter
1965Pardon the Expression (24 Episodes) as Sir Charles Dobson
1965War-Gods of the Deep as Rev. Jonathan Ives
1965Masquerade as Sir Robert
1965Tea Party as Unknown
1964The Bone Yard as Superintendent Melchior
1964The Blackmailing of Mr. S as Mr. Sparrow
1964The Moon-Spinners as Anthony Gamble
1964Never Put It in Writing as Adams
1964Hot Enough for June as Roger Allsop
1963The Pink Panther as Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier)
1963Long Past Glory as Harry
1963In the Cool of the Day as Dr. Arraman
1963We Joined the Navy as George Dewberry Sr.
1963The Mouse on the Moon as British Delegate
1963The Punch and Judy Man as The Sandman
1963The Wrong Arm of the Law as Assistant Commissioner
1962The Main Attraction as Bozo
1962Dial RIX (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Jigsaw as Mr Simpson
1962Go to Blazes as Fisherman
1962Village of Daughters as Don Calogere
1962Hair of the Dog as Sir Mortimer Gallant
1962Flat Two as Unknown
1962Only Two Can Play as Salter
1961Morecambe & Wise (1 Episode) as Sgt. Arthur Wilson
1961On the Fiddle as Hixon
1961Invasion Quartet as Unknown
1961Don't Bother to Knock as Father
1961Very Important Person as Piggott, Escape Officer
1961Mr. Topaze as Blackmailer
1961The Rebel as Office manager
1961Five Golden Hours as Dr. Alfiera
1961The Avengers (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's as Minister of Education
1960The Bulldog Breed as Prosecuting counsel
1960The Night We Got the Bird as Clerk of the Court
1960The Day They Robbed the Bank of England as Green
1960Doctor in Love as Dr Mincing
1960Never Let Go as Pennington
1960Dead Lucky as Inspector Corcoran
1960School for Scoundrels as Head Waiter
1960Let's Get Married as Dean
1960A Touch of Larceny as Head of the Admiralty (uncredited)
1959Ben-Hur as Doctor (uncredited)
1959The Wreck of the Mary Deare as Attorney
1959Interpol Calling (1 Episode) as Monsieur Iamprou
1959I'm All Right Jack as Waters
1959Shake Hands with the Devil as British General
1959Jack the Ripper as Dr. Tranter
1959The Hound of the Baskervilles as Barrymore
1959Carlton-Browne of the F.O. as Grand Duke Alexis
1959Too Many Crooks as Magistrate
1959The Lady is a Square as Fergusson
1959Operation Amsterdam as Colonel Janssen
1959The Captain's Table as Sir Angus
1959Desert Mice as Staff Colonel
1959Follow a Star as Birkett
1958I Was Monty's Double as Adjutant RAPC
1958The Adventures of William Tell (1 Episode) as Duke of Burgundy
1958Blood of the Vampire as Chief Justice
1958Man with a Gun as Harry Drayson
1958The Moonraker as Cromwell
1958Blind Spot as Mr. Brent
1958Law and Disorder as Sir Humphrey Pomfret
1958Another Time, Another Place as Dr. Aldridge
1958Gideon's Day as Barrister
1958Happy Is the Bride as Chaytor
1958The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Judge
1957High Flight as Commandant
1957These Dangerous Years as Commanding Officer
1957The Admirable Crichton as Unknown
1957The Good Companions as Monte Mortimer
1957Brothers in Law as His Honour Judge Ryman
1956The Battle of the River Plate as Reverend George Groves - Padre, HMS Exeter
1956Hancock's Half Hour (8 Episodes) as Ship's Captain
1956The Baby and the Battleship as The Marshal’s Aide
1956Private's Progress as Psychiatrist
1955Josephine and Men as Registrar
1955A Time to Kill as Phinneas Tilliard
1955Police Dog as Inspector
1954Make Me an Offer! as Mr. Toshack
1954Stranger from Venus as Official
1954Dangerous Cargo as Luigi
1953Black 13 as Inspector
1953The Pleasure Garden as Col. Gargoyle
1953The Blue Parrot as Henry Carson
1953The Drayton Case as Divisional Superintendent Henley
1953Scotland Yard (1 Episode) as Unknown
1952Mother Riley Meets the Vampire as Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
1952Blind Man's Bluff as Lefty Jones
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Stephen
1951The Railway Children (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1950Dark Interval as Cedric, the butler
1949A Matter of Murder as Ginter
1949Old Mother Riley's New Venture as Karl
1948Escape from Broadmoor as Pendicot
1948Death in the Hand as Jack Mottram