Bernard Lee

Gender: Male
Born: 10th January 1908
Died: 16th January 1981
Nationality: England
TV programs: King of the River, Vienna 1900, Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Movies: Beat the Devil, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Angry Silence, The Third Man, Danger Within, Odette, Web of Evidence, Whistle Down the Wind, Cone of Silence, The Spanish Gardener, Dunkirk, Kidnapped, Gift Horse, Gallipoli, The Terror, Thunderball, Once a Crook, Last Holiday, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Bons baisers de Hong Kong, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Diamonds Are Forever, A Place to Go, The Purple Plain, Fury at Smugglers' Bay, The Key, High Flight, The Raging Moon, Sailor of the King, Morning Departure, The L-Shaped Room, Murder in Soho, Across the Bridge, The Battle of the River Plate, Fire Down Below, The Ship That Died of Shame, Crossplot, Father Brown, The Blue Lamp, Ring of Spies, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Saturday Night Out, The Man Upstairs, The Brain, Rhodes of Africa, OK Connery, Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond

John Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 – 16 January 1981), better known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. Lee's career spanned 1934 to 1979, beginning on stage at the age of six. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Although best remembered for the Bond series, he appeared in over one hundred films, as well as on stage and television dramatisations. Lee was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters or policemen and highlights in his career included The Third Man, The Blue Lamp, The Battle of the River Plate and Whistle Down the Wind.

He died on 17 January 1981, at age 73 after suffering from stomach cancer.

Lee was born on 10 January 1908, the son of Nellie (née Smith) and Edmund James Lee. He was born in either Cork, Republic of Ireland or Brentford, London. Lee's father was also an actor and Bernard's first appearance on stage in 1914, at the age of six, was with his father in a sketch called "The Double Event" at the Oxford Music Hall in London. Lee attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, working as a fruit porter to pay his fees. During the 1930s, after

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