John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley) was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army.

Born

Apr 05, 1912

Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK

Died

Nov 15, 1983

Known For

Acting

Movies

150 acting

0 crew

Popularity

1.9

movie

Known For

Ben-Hur

1959

as Doctor (uncredited)

Casino Royale

1967

as M's Driver (uncredited)

The Pink Panther

1963

as Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier)

The Italian Job

1969

as Governor

Jabberwocky

1977

as Passelewe

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

1965

as French Painter

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959

as Barrymore

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

1975

as Lord Redcliff

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

as Dr. Deere

Our Man in Havana

1960

as Louis (uncredited)

Ben-Hur

1959 • as Doctor (uncredited)

★ 7.9

Casino Royale

1967 • as M's Driver (uncredited)

★ 5.2

The Pink Panther

1963 • as Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier)

★ 6.9

The Italian Job

1969 • as Governor

★ 6.9

Jabberwocky

1977 • as Passelewe

★ 6.0

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

1965 • as French Painter

★ 6.8

movie

Traitor

1971 • as Adrian Harris

★ 8.3

Eye of the Devil

1966 • as Dr. Monnet

★ 6.1

Invasion Quartet

1961

★ 6.5

Where the Spies Are

1966 • as Mc Gillivray

★ 5.4

The Battle of the River Plate

1956 • as Reverend George Groves - Padre, HMS Exeter

★ 6.4

The Magic Christian

1969 • as Sir John

★ 5.8

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959 • as Barrymore

★ 6.8

Unidentified Flying Oddball

1979 • as Sir Gawain

★ 5.6

The Admirable Crichton

1957 • as Monsieur Fleury, chef at Loam Hall

★ 6.8

movie

The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show

1977 • as Sgt. Arthur Wilson

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 • as Attorney

★ 6.3

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 • as M.O.A. Lawyer (uncredited)

★ 6.3

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970 • as Pelham

★ 6.7

Tea Party

1965

★ 7.0

We Joined the Navy

1963 • as George Dewberry Sr.

★ 6.0

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

1974 • as Inspector John Radlett

★ 5.0

A Touch of Larceny

1960 • as Head of the Admiralty (uncredited)

★ 6.0

Three for All

1975 • as Mr. Gibbons

★ 3.3

Roger of the Raj

1979 • as Colonel Runciman

★ 8.0

Happy Is the Bride

1958 • as Chaytor

★ 7.0

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

1975 • as Lord Redcliff

★ 6.0

The 25th Hour

1967 • as Tribunal President

★ 7.6

The Moon-Spinners

1964 • as Anthony Gamble

★ 5.9

The Cuckoo Patrol

1967 • as Gibbs

★ 4.6

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978 • as Dr. Deere

★ 6.2

Gideon's Day

1958 • as Barrister (uncredited)

★ 6.4

The Pleasure Garden

1953 • as Col. Gargoyle

★ 6.5

Village of Daughters

1962 • as Don Calogere

★ 6.7

Our Man in Marrakesh

1966 • as George Lillywhite

★ 5.7

I Was Monty's Double

1958 • as Adjutant RAPC

★ 6.9

Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4

2025 • as Jack Mottram (Death In The Hand)

★ 7.0

Our Man in Havana

1960 • as Louis (uncredited)

★ 6.7

movie

An Honourable Retirement

1979 • as Edward Brown

★ 10.0

The Liquidator

1965 • as Chekhov

★ 6.3

movie

Anywhere but England

1972 • as Freddie

Macready's Gala

1966 • as Canon Dunwoodie

★ 7.0

War-Gods of the Deep

1965 • as Rev. Jonathan Ives

★ 5.0

Long Past Glory

1963 • as Harry

★ 10.0

Salt & Pepper

1968 • as Col. Woodstock

★ 5.3

Waltz of the Toreadors

1962 • as Rev. Grimsley

★ 5.0

The Wrong Arm of the Law

1963 • as Assistant Commissioner

★ 6.7

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1980 • as Perkins

★ 4.9

Escape from Broadmoor

1948 • as Pendicot

★ 6.8

Blood of the Vampire

1958 • as Chief Justice

★ 5.8

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959 • as British General

★ 6.5

Hot Enough for June

1964 • as Roger Allsop

★ 5.7

Private's Progress

1956 • as Psychiatrist

★ 6.6

The Wrong Box

1966 • as Doctor Slattery

★ 6.4

Au Pair Girls

1972 • as Mr. Wainwright

★ 4.6

The Mouse on the Moon

1963 • as British Delegate

★ 6.3

I'm All Right Jack

1959 • as Waters

★ 6.6

Another Time, Another Place

1958 • as Dr. Aldridge

★ 5.8

Jack the Ripper

1959 • as Dr. Tranter

★ 6.1

Masquerade

1965 • as Sir Robert

★ 5.0

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's

1960 • as Minister of Education

★ 6.5

The Passionate Pilgrim

1984 • as The Narrator

★ 7.5

The Early Bird

1965 • as Colonel Foster

★ 7.5

Only Two Can Play

1962 • as Salter

★ 5.9

Very Important Person

1961 • as Escape Officer Piggott

★ 5.5

The Captain's Table

1959 • as Sir Angus

★ 6.0

The Blue Parrot

1953 • as Henry Carson

★ 5.9

The Alf Garnett Saga

1972 • as Ronald Frewin

★ 5.0

The Rebel

1961 • as Office manager

★ 7.8

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

1959 • as Grand Duke Alexis

★ 6.1

Dad's Army

1971 • as Sergeant Arthur Wilson

★ 5.0

The Inn Way Out

1967 • as Pub Bore

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

1958 • as Judge

★ 6.3

School for Scoundrels

1960 • as Skinner

★ 6.9

A Time to Kill

1955 • as Phinneas Tilliard

★ 7.7

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

1960 • as Green

★ 6.1

Hitler: The Comedy Years

2007 • as Arthur Wilson (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5.0

Never Let Go

1960 • as Pennington

★ 6.5

On the Fiddle

1961 • as Hixon

★ 5.7

What's Up Nurse

1977 • as Dr. Ogden

★ 4.8

The Moonraker

1958 • as Cromwell

★ 6.9

Law and Disorder

1958 • as Sir Humphrey Pomfret

★ 6.4

Mister Ten Per Cent

1967 • as Jocelyn Macauley

★ 5.6

The Sandwich Man

1966 • as Religious Sandwich Man

★ 6.5

The Lady is a Square

1959 • as Fergusson

★ 6.2

Don't Bother to Knock

1961 • as Father

★ 4.8

Mr. Topaze

1961 • as Blackmailer

★ 5.9

In the Cool of the Day

1963 • as Dr. Arraman

★ 5.8

The Baby and the Battleship

1956 • as The Marshal’s Aide

★ 6.4

The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel

The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel

1969 • as Judge Grayson

★ 6.5

Doctor in Love

1960 • as Dr. Mincing

★ 5.5

Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1

1957 • as Lord Chief Justice Williams

The Bulldog Breed

1960 • as Prosecuting Counsel

★ 6.1

Brief Encounter

1976 • as Stephen

★ 5.0

Police Dog

1955 • as Inspector

★ 6.7

Jigsaw

1962 • as Mr Simpson

★ 7.3

Doctor in Trouble

1970 • as Purser

★ 5.0

Go to Blazes

1962 • as Fisherman

★ 6.3

The Shillingbury Blowers

1980 • as Council Chairman

★ 7.5

The Good Companions

1957 • as Monte Mortimer

★ 7.0

Finders Keepers

1966 • as Mr. X

★ 6.8

Operation Amsterdam

1959 • as Colonel Janssen

★ 6.1

The Punch and Judy Man

1963 • as The Sandman

★ 7.9

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

1952 • as Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)

★ 4.2

Blind Man's Bluff

1952 • as Lefty Jones

★ 8.0

Josephine and Men

1955 • as Registrar

★ 6.4

Brothers in Law

1957 • as His Honour Judge Ryman

★ 7.0

High Flight

1957 • as Commandant

★ 6.2

Stranger from Venus

1954 • as Official/Man at Desk (uncredited)

★ 5.2

Beautiful Stranger

1954 • as Man at Casino #1

★ 5.2

Midas Run

1969 • as Wells

★ 4.7

Five Golden Hours

1961 • as Dr. Alfiera

★ 7.3

Follow a Star

1959 • as Birkett

★ 6.2

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

1974 • as Robert Crowther

★ 5.4

A Christmas Carol

1977 • as Marley's Ghost

★ 6.7

Man with a Gun

1958 • as Harry Drayson

★ 5.8

Desert Mice

1959 • as Staff Colonel

★ 6.2

The Night We Got the Bird

1960 • as Clerk of the Court

★ 6.3

Black 13

1953 • as Inspector

★ 7.0

Blind Spot

1958 • as Mr. Brent

★ 5.9

Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle

1961 • as Mr. Elvin

The Hangman Waits

1947 • as Newsman

★ 5.0

Never Put It in Writing

1964 • as Adams

★ 8.0

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

1977 • as Col. Bromley-Pickering

★ 4.6

Too Many Crooks

1959 • as Magistrate

★ 7.4

Death in the Hand

1948 • as Jack Mottram

★ 7.0

Old Mother Riley's New Venture

1949 • as Karl

★ 9.5

The Bone Yard

1964 • as Superintendent Melchior

★ 9.0

The Best of Morecambe and Wise

2001 • as Self (archive footage)

movie

Let's Get Married

1960 • as Dean

★ 9.0

Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box

2001 • as Sergeant Arthur Wilson (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 10.0

These Dangerous Years

1957 • as Commanding Officer

★ 7.3

movie

Rust

1973 • as Sir Henry Hawkes

movie

Hair of the Dog

1962 • as Sir Mortimer Gallant

★ 7.5

A Matter of Murder

1949 • as Ginter

★ 6.3

movie

The Blackmailing of Mr. S

1964 • as Mr. Sparrow

Dead Lucky

1960 • as Inspector Corcoran

★ 6.5

Dangerous Cargo

1954 • as Luigi

★ 6.4

Late Flowering Love

1981

★ 8.0

Make Me an Offer!

1954 • as Mr. Toshack

★ 7.4

Facelift

1984 • as Bruce

★ 10.0

movie

Dark Interval

1950 • as Cedric, the butler

★ 10.0

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys

1962 • as Cole

★ 7.0

Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse

1978 • as Sir Archibald MacGregor

★ 4.6

The Main Attraction

1962 • as Bozo

★ 4.0

John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely

John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely

2012 • as Himself

★ 7.0

movie

Twenty Minutes South

• as Arthur Harris

Flat Two

1962 • as Warden

The Drayton Case

1953 • as Divisional Superintendent Henley

★ 7.0

The Flight Fund

1975 • as Uncle Edward

★ 9.0