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Lester Matthews is a Actor British born on 5 june 1900 at Nottingham (United-kingdom)

Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews
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Birth name Arthur Lester Matthews
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 june 1900 at Nottingham (United-kingdom)
Death 6 june 1975 (at 75 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Arthur Lester Matthews (6 June 1900 – 5 June 1975) was an English actor born in Nottingham. In his career, the handsome Englishman made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was on occasion erroneously credited as Lester Mathews and especially in later years was sometimes known as Les Matthews. Matthews played supporting roles in films like The Raven and Werewolf of London, but his career deteriorated into bit parts. He died on 6 June 1975 in Los Angeles, California. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

Biography

Lester Matthews a d'abord tourné au Royaume-Uni, puis aux États-Unis à partir de 1935.

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Filmography of Lester Matthews (111 films)

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Star!
Star! (1968)
, 2h56
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Daniel Massey, Michael Craig, Robert Reed, Bruce Forsyth
Rating63% 3.1986953.1986953.1986953.1986953.198695
The film opens in 1940, with Lawrence in a screening room watching a documentary film chronicling her life, then flashes back to Clapham in 1915, when she leaves home to join her vaudevillian father in a dilapidated Brixton music hall. Eventually she joins the chorus in André Charlot's West End revue. She reunites with close childhood friend Noël Coward who provides witty commentary on Gertie's actions.
Assault on a Queen, 1h46
Directed by Richard Long, Robert D. Webb, Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin, Reginald Denny
Roles Doctor
Rating56% 2.802582.802582.802582.802582.80258
A World War II-era German submarine missing for 20 years is retrieved in the Bahamas by diver Mark Brittain, hired by the wealthy Rosa Lucchesi and her partner, Vic Rossiter, who have been searching for Spanish galleons.
Mary Poppins, 2h19
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety, Tom Leetch, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about birds, Musical films, Films about penguins, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber
Roles Mr. Tomes (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.8972953.8972953.8972953.8972953.897295
In Edwardian London, 1910, Cockney one-man band Bert is entertaining a crowd when he senses a change in the wind. Afterwards, he directly addresses the audience and gives them a tour of Cherry Tree Lane, stopping outside the home of the Banks'. George Banks returns home from his job at the bank to learn from his wife Winifred that their hired nanny, Katie Nanna, has left their service after his children, Jane and Michael, ran away again. They are returned shortly after by the local constable, who reveals that the children were dragged away by their kite. The children ask their father to help build a better kite, but he dismisses them. Taking it upon himself to hire a nanny, George advertises for a stern, no-nonsense nanny. Jane and Michael present their own advertisement for a kinder, sweeter nanny, but George rips up the letter and throws the scraps in the fireplace, which magically float up and out into the air.
The Prize
The Prize (1963)
, 2h14
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker, Micheline Presle, Gérard Oury
Roles BBC News Correspondent
Rating67% 3.399463.399463.399463.399463.39946
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig (Paul Newman), who seems to be more interested in women and drinking than writing. When he arrives in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted to find that the Swedish Foreign Department has sent the beautiful Inger Lisa Andersson (Elke Sommer) as his personal chaperone. When Craig arrives at his hotel, he is introduced to another laureate, Dr. Max Stratman (Edward G. Robinson), a famous German-American physicist, who is accompanied by his niece Emily (Diane Baker).
By Love Possessed, 1h55
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist II, Jason Robards, George Hamilton, Susan Kohner, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Club Patron (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.705952.705952.705952.705952.70595
In a Massachusetts law firm, Arthur Winner, Julius Penrose and Noah Tuttle are equal partners. Each has an ongoing problem in his personal life.
Song Without End, 2h21
Directed by George Cukor, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt
Rating59% 2.994242.994242.994242.994242.99424
Jeune pianiste de talent et salué par la critique, Franz Lizst n'en reste pas moins un personnage torturé par la solitude. À l'occasion d'une tournée européenne, le jeune artiste fait la rencontre de la princesse Caroline Sayn-Wittengenstei. Tous deux entament une idylle à double tranchant puisque cette nouvelle relation a une conséquence négative sur les performances de Franz.
The Miracle, 2h1
Directed by Irving Rapper
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on plays, Films about virginity
Actors Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katína Paxinoú, Gustavo Rojo
Roles Capt. Boulting
Rating59% 2.9548152.9548152.9548152.9548152.954815
Teresa (Carroll Baker), a postulant at the convent of Miraflores in Salamanca, Spain, is an orphan taken in by the sisters there. She enjoys the convent life, despite being a handful for her superiors. She sings worldly love songs to the other postulants and reads secular stories and plays such as Romeo and Juliet. Still, she has a lively devotion to Christ and to His Blessed Mother. A statue of the Madonna, in fact, is held in high regard by Teresa as she goes about her duties.
Ten Wanted Men, 1h20
Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Boone, Alfonso Bedoya, Denver Pyle, Skip Homeier
Roles Adam Stewart
Rating59% 2.998672.998672.998672.998672.99867
Adam Stewart, a lawyer heading west with grown son Howie, is persuaded by brother John Stewart to settle down near him in Ocatilla, Arizona, where he has a ranch and romantic interest in a widow, Corinne Michaels.
The Far Horizons, 1h48
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Alan Reed
Roles Mr. Hancock
Rating61% 3.0513653.0513653.0513653.0513653.051365
An ambitious, historic attempt to explore and document an untamed American frontier unfolds in this rousing adventure drama. In 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, with President Thomas Jefferson's blessing, embarked on the government-sponsored Lewis & Clark Expedition – an attempt to discover a water route connecting St. Louis, Missouri, with the Pacific Ocean. Their trek takes them through the magnificent, danger-filled territory of the Pacific Northwest, with guidance from the Shoshone woman Sacagawea.
Flame of the Islands, 1h30
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Zachary Scott, James Arness, Frieda Inescort, Kurt Kasznar
Roles Gus
Rating57% 2.854082.854082.854082.854082.85408
Rosalind Dee (DeCarlo) is a cafe singer striving to enter high society. Rosalind stumbles upon a large amount of money by lucky means. Rosalind forms a partnership with gambling-club owners Wade Evans (Zachary Scott) and Cyril Mace (Kurt Kasznar), building the establishment into a gathering place for the elite. Along the way, she attempts to rekindle a romance with randy playboy Doug Duryea (Howard Duff), but she is soon lured in by Rev. Kelly Rand (James Arness) who comes to save Rosalind from her troubles.
Moonfleet
Moonfleet (1955)
, 1h24
Directed by Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Hans Peters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about children
Actors Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jack Elam, Melville Cooper
Roles Major Hennishaw
Rating65% 3.2966153.2966153.2966153.2966153.296615
This script must be run from the command line
King Richard and the Crusaders, 1h54
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Musical
Themes Political films
Actors Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey, Robert Douglas, Michael Pate
Roles Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
Rating55% 2.7580652.7580652.7580652.7580652.758065
In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment however. Two nobles in particular, Sir Giles Amaury and Conrad of Montferrat, want to eliminate the English king and attempt to have him assassinated. Severely wounded and on his death bed, Richard is brought back to health by a Saracen doctor recruited by one of his loyal knights, Sir Kenneth of Huntington. The king recovers from his wounds but when he hears that Sir Kenneth wishes to marry Lady Edith Plantagenet, the knight is banished only to be taken in by the very doctor who treated the king and who has an altogether different identity.
Niagara
Niagara (1953)
, 1h32
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Don Wilson (kickboxeur), Lurene Tuttle
Roles Doctor (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4978053.4978053.4978053.4978053.497805
Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters) on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe). Rose tells them that George is asleep at last, and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital. The Cutlers politely accept another, less desirable cabin, and so the two couples become acquainted.