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Feb 19, 2010 · Prolific actor and director who made the much-loved film The Railway Children. Dennis Barker. Fri 19 Feb 2010 13.39 EST. As an actor Lionel Jeffries, who has died aged 83, was a master of comic...
Feb 20, 2010 · Lionel Jeffries, a mustachioed, bald-pated British character actor who excelled in rubber-faced comedic roles like Grandpa Potts in the musical fantasy adventure “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and...
Feb 20, 2010 · The actor and film director Lionel Jeffries has died at the age of 83, his family has announced. Jeffries was best known for his appearance in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and for directing the...
Feb 19, 2010 · The well-known actor and film director Lionel Jeffries has died at the age of 83, his family has announced. Best known for directing The Railway Children and appearing in Chitty Chitty Bang...
Feb 19, 2010 · Lionel Jeffries, who died yesterday aged 83, was a character actor, screenwriter and director; his most lasting legacy was probably The Railway Children, which he brought to the screen in 1970....
Feb 19, 2010 · Lionel Jeffries enjoyed a long and varied acting career, most notably in film comedies like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He also wrote the screenplay for, and directed, The Railway Children. It...
Lionel Jeffries. Actor, Director. 9 June 1926 to 19 February 2010. A versatile character actor, Jeffries’ best known role is Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Equally at home in comedies from Two Way Stretch to dramas such as The Trials of Oscar Wilde (both 1960), his later work includes writing and directing perennial ...
