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Bernard Lee
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John Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 – 16 January 1981) was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films. Lee's film career spanned the years 1934 to 1979, though he had appeared on stage from the age of six. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Lee appeared in over one hundred films, as well as on stage and in television dramatisations. He was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters or policemen in films such as The Third Man, The Blue Lamp, The Battle of the River Plate, and Whistle Down the Wind. He died of stomach cancer in 1981, aged 73.
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The Bronx Executioner
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Moonraker- DEDeath Becomes Me
A Christmas Carol
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Man with the Golden Gun
Live and Let Die
The Man Who Died Twice
The Baron: The Man in a Looking Glass
Diamonds Are Forever
Dulcima
The Raging Moon- DADanger Point
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Crossplot
Journey to Midnight
You Only Live Twice
Operation Kid Brother
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Thunderball
The Incredible World of James Bond
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
Goldfinger
Who Was Maddox?
Ring of Spies
Saturday Night Out
From Russia with Love
A Place to Go
Two Left Feet
The L-Shaped Room
Dr. No
The Share Out
The Brain
Clue of the Silver Key
Whistle Down the Wind
Partners in Crime
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
The Secret Partner
Clue of the Twisted Candle
Cone of Silence
The Angry Silence
Kidnapped
Web of Evidence
Danger Within
Nowhere to Go
The Man Upstairs
The Key
Dunkirk
High Flight
Across the Bridge
Fire Down Below
The Spanish Gardener
The Battle of the River Plate
Out of the Clouds
The Purple Plain
Father Brown
Crest of the Wave
Beat the Devil
The Yellow Balloon
Sailor of the King
Gift Horse
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Fortune in Diamonds
Island Rescue
Cage of Gold
Odette
Last Holiday
Morning Departure
The Blue Lamp
The Third Man
Elizabeth of Ladymead
The Adventures of Dusty Bates
This Man Is Mine- ONOnce a Crook
Let George Do It!
Spare a Copper
Murder in Soho
The Outsider
The Frozen Limits
The Terror
The Black Tulip
Rhodes