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Bernard Lee

1908 - 1981

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Lee has received more than 2,062,513 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Bernard Lee is the 1,065th most popular actor (down from 700th in 2019), the 1,162nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 865th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular British Actor.

Bernard Lee was a British actor who played M in the James Bond films.

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  • 30

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  • 4.28

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  • 3.41

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bernard Lee ranks 1,065 out of 13,578. Before him are Daniel Radcliffe, Shilpa Shetty, Frances Fisher, Joan Allen, Liam Hemsworth, and Loretta Young. After him are Yaphet Kotto, Tommy Wiseau, Agnes Moorehead, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Run Run Shaw, and Bernard Blier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Bernard Lee ranks 75. Before him are Edward Dmytryk, André Martinet, Alain Cuny, Tex Avery, Pablo Dorado, and Saizo Saito. After him are Rómulo Betancourt, Koča Popović, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Max Bill, Remedios Varo, and Giovannino Guareschi. Among people deceased in 1981, Bernard Lee ranks 47. Before him are Bill Shankly, Bill Haley, Lotte Lenya, Gyula Lóránt, Karl Richter, and Stefan Wyszyński. After him are Rómulo Betancourt, Duško Popov, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Mike Hailwood, and Christy Brown.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernard Lee ranks 1,162 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Watts (1915), Robert Recorde (1512), Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1506), Frances Fisher (1952), Robert Fludd (1574), and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935). After him are William the Lion (1142), Cynthia Lennon (1939), Ed Miliband (1969), John McLaughlin (1942), Rosemary Harris (1927), and Rod Evans (1947).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Bernard Lee ranks 153. Before him are Taron Egerton (1989), Idris Elba (1972), Kiefer Sutherland (1966), Keira Knightley (1985), Daniel Radcliffe (1989), and Frances Fisher (1952). After him are Rosemary Harris (1927), Joan Plowright (1929), Robert Hardy (1925), Glenda Jackson (1936), Stephen Fry (1957), and Emily Blunt (1983).

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Television and Movie Roles

Goldfinger
M
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Sep 20o 19647.346 / 10
From Russia with Love
M
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Oct 10o 19637.071 / 10
Dr. No
M
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Oct 7o 19626.996 / 10