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Lester Matthews (June 6, 1900 - June 5, 1975) was an English actor born in Nottingham, England, UK. In his career, he 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. He died on the 6 June 1975 in Los Angeles, California. He was cremated. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He appeared on television many times including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "Completely Foolproof" (original air date: March 29, 1965).
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22 January 1945
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
07 June 1939
A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
15 January 1943
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II.
29 September 1943
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
07 December 1938
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial.
15 May 1947
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves.
12 September 1932
Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph.
24 June 1947
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay.
13 August 1951
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
31 October 1951
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved.
13 May 1938
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
27 July 1944
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
25 November 1936
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths.
16 October 1942
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.
24 July 1938
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
29 January 1953
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area.
10 August 1940
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
13 April 1945
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
27 December 1935
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
24 May 1940
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs.
04 July 1952
A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.
16 October 1951
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
28 September 1938
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom.
17 February 1944
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
13 May 1935
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
07 November 1943
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp.
01 November 1949
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
02 September 1938
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
27 August 1947
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income.
08 November 1939
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
30 January 1964
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
16 November 1954
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall.
17 March 1944
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
21 June 1950
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
23 February 1940
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War.
30 April 1953
Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada.
10 November 1939
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
15 June 1966
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
04 April 1953
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
30 April 1937
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince.
24 December 1952
In the 18th century, the pirates of Madagascar, lords of the Republic of Libertatia and masters of the Indian Ocean, live in an impregnable natural fortress, killing, robbing and plundering with impunity, so the British Navy hatches a daring plan to destroy them.
06 September 1932
In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
13 June 1941
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight.
17 February 1939
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers.
26 September 1942
A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run.
08 October 1937
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero.
09 June 1944
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine.
15 December 1933
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk.
14 December 1936
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
08 July 1935
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
22 February 1950
In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy.
04 September 1942
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941.
22 February 1952
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
17 February 1945
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.
01 June 1954
Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.
01 January 1970
An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard.
14 August 1952
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
26 March 1953
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city.
25 January 1945
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
