With his firm jaw-line & bristling mustache, Lionel Jeffries played a nice line in English eccentrics. This belied his RADA training. Following military service in WWII he really played his major roles in the 1960's. Everything from Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the Marquis of Queensberry in The Trials of Oscar Wilde.


An Associate Member of RADA. His hair fell out during a single week when he was 19. He tried wearing a wig to cover up his bald head but soon rejected it because it looked like "a dead moth on a boiled egg". His parents were members of the Salvation Army, and worked in a mission in London's East End.