Cast: Bernard Lee

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Bernard Lee. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Third Man

1949 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Trevor Howard · Orson Welles

Synopsis Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a questionable car accident, he decides to remain in...

8.2

43K votes

8.2

43K votes

Last Holiday

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cass

Cast Alec Guinness · Beatrice Campbell · Kay Walsh · Grégoire Aslan

Synopsis George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. He decides to take the last holiday of the film's title and begins to find out that he was a more worthwhile and...

7.2

65 votes

7.2

65 votes

The Fallen Idol

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Ralph Richardson · Michèle Morgan · Sonia Dresdel · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis An eight-year-old ambassador’s son, left in the care of manservant Baines and his suspicious wife, witnesses what he believes to be a murder.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1965 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Peter van Eyck

Synopsis When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires if he is tired, burnt out, ready to come in...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Nowhere to Go

1958 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Seth Holt · Basil Dearden

Cast George Nader · Maggie Smith · Bernard Lee · Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis Paul Gregory steals a collection of antique coins from a wealthy American visitor to London, and puts the money he receives for them into a safety deposit before his arrest. He is sentenced to ten years rather than the five...

7.0

92 votes

7.0

92 votes

Goldfinger

1964 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Sean Connery · Honor Blackman · Gert Fröbe · Shirley Eaton

Synopsis The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin, must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries....

6.9

13K votes

6.9

13K votes

Whistle down the wind

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Hayley Mills · Bernard Lee · Alan Bates · Norman Bird

Synopsis In England's north country, three children find an escaped and wounded murderer in a barn and convince themselves, through something he mutters, that he is the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ. Accepting the role, the man is safely hidden from the...

6.9

356 votes

6.9

356 votes

Dr. No

1962 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Ursula Andress · Jack Lord · Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis In the first James Bond spy classic, Sean Connery is the ever-suave and fearless secret Agent 007 on a mission in Jamaica to thwart a fanatical scientist's world-threatening scheme.

6.8

31K votes

6.8

31K votes

Across the Bridge

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Rod Steiger · David Knight · Marla Landi · Noel Willman

Synopsis Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient time to take...

6.7

48 votes

6.7

48 votes

The Secret Partner

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Stewart Granger · Haya Harareet · Bernard Lee · Hugh Burden

Synopsis John Brent (Granger) has just learned that his wife Nicole (Harareet) has left him. She picked a bad time too because they're supposed to be hosting a company party in their home very soon. Brent's boss Charles Standish (Hugh Burden)...

6.7

163 votes

6.7

163 votes

The L-Shaped Room

1962 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Leslie Caron · Tom Bell · Bernard Lee · Brock Peters

Synopsis Jane (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, but is unhappy with this solution. She falls...

6.7

140 votes

6.7

140 votes

From Russia With Love

1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Robert Shaw · Daniela Bianchi · Lotte Lenya

Synopsis Based on Ian Fleming's 1951 novel. Assigned to the mission of stealing an important Russian decoding device are No. 3, former KGB agent Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), and No. 5, Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal), an expert chess player who has plotted...

6.6

11K votes

6.6

11K votes

The Angry Silence

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Richard Attenborough · Pier Angeli · Michael Craig · Bernard Lee

Synopsis The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. The story tells of a man's dilemma when he refused to participate in an unofficial strike, where he works. While...

6.5

83 votes

6.5

83 votes

Morning Departure

1950 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast John Mills · Nigel Patrick · Peter Hammond · Andrew Crawford

Synopsis The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

6.4

57 votes

6.4

57 votes

Dunkirk

1958 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast John Mills · Robert Urquhart · Ray Jackson · Meredith Edwards

Synopsis One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across the...

6.3

111 votes

6.3

111 votes

You Only Live Twice

1967 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Sean Connery · Donald Pleasence · Akiko Wakabayashi · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.

6.3

7K votes

6.3

7K votes

Sink the Bismarck!

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Dana Wynter · Carl Möhner · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search...

6.3

526 votes

6.3

526 votes

Beauty and the Beast (TV)

1976 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast George C. Scott · Trish Van Devere · Virginia McKenna · Bernard Lee

Synopsis A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

6.3

54 votes

6.3

54 votes

Dulcima

1971 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Frank Nesbitt

Cast Carol White · John Mills · Stuart Wilson · Bernard Lee

Synopsis A farmer who has the reputation of drinking most of his money away, lives on farm which is in a poor state of repair. A pretty young girl, Dulcima, takes pity on him and decides to help him by cleaning...

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

Thunderball

1965 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Claudine Auger · Adolfo Celi · Luciana Paluzzi

Synopsis James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of...

6.3

7K votes

6.3

7K votes