
John Le Mesurier
Known for: Acting
Born: April 5, 1912
Died: November 15, 1983
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.
Known for

The Inn Way Out
1967

Flat Two
1962
Traitor
1971

The Flight Fund
1975
Rust
1973
The Blackmailing of Mr. S
1964

Dad's Army
1971

Macready's Gala
1966

A Christmas Carol
1977

Tea Party
1965

Long Past Glory
1963

John Le Mesurier: It's All Been Rather Lovely
2012

The Pleasure Garden
1953

Where the Spies Are
1966

Jabberwocky
1977

Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
1961

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977

What's Up Nurse
1977

Escape from Broadmoor
1948

Man with a Gun
1958

A Matter of Murder
1949

Dead Lucky
1960

Unidentified Flying Oddball
1979

Private's Progress
1956

The Rebel
1961

Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse
1978
Dark Interval
1950

Blind Spot
1958

Mister Ten Per Cent
1967

The Cuckoo Patrol
1967

The Drayton Case
1953

Invasion Quartet
1961

Jigsaw
1962

Old Mother Riley's New Venture
1949

The Passionate Pilgrim
1984
Hair of the Dog
1962

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
1962

Salt & Pepper
1968

We Joined the Navy
1963

Only Two Can Play
1962

The Alf Garnett Saga
1972

The Punch and Judy Man
1963

Village of Daughters
1962

Jack the Ripper
1959

Brief Encounter
1976

Death in the Hand
1948

War-Gods of the Deep
1965

Roger of the Raj
1979

Facelift
1984

Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4
2025

The Liquidator
1965

Blind Man's Bluff
1952

The Main Attraction
1962

Dangerous Cargo
1954

Police Dog
1955

Masquerade
1965

Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1974

The Bone Yard
1964

Doctor in Love
1960

Our Man in Marrakesh
1966

The Early Bird
1965

The Blue Parrot
1953

Never Put It in Writing
1964

Blood of the Vampire
1958

The Moon-Spinners
1964

Follow a Star
1959

The Best of Morecambe and Wise
2001

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975

Five Golden Hours
1961

The Mouse on the Moon
1963

The Hangman Waits
1947

The Pink Panther
1963

Eye of the Devil
1966

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959

School for Scoundrels
1960

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960

Very Important Person
1961

Midas Run
1969

The Bulldog Breed
1960

These Dangerous Years
1957
Anywhere but England
1972
Let's Get Married
1960

Hot Enough for June
1964

Mr. Topaze
1961

In the Cool of the Day
1963

The Italian Job
1969

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959

The Magic Christian
1969

The Wrong Arm of the Law
1963

On the Fiddle
1961

The Night We Got the Bird
1960
The Shillingbury Blowers
1980

Too Many Crooks
1959

High Flight
1957

A Time to Kill
1955

Late Flowering Love
1981

Another Time, Another Place
1958

Finders Keepers
1966

Black 13
1953

Don't Bother to Knock
1961

The Lady is a Square
1959

The 25th Hour
1967

Doctor in Trouble
1970

Brothers in Law
1957
Twenty Minutes South

I'm All Right Jack
1959

Never Let Go
1960

The Moonraker
1958

Operation Amsterdam
1959

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958

The Baby and the Battleship
1956

Happy Is the Bride
1958

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978

The Captain's Table
1959

Shake Hands with the Devil
1959

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
1960

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974

The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959

The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
1969

Stranger from Venus
1954

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
1952

Beautiful Stranger
1954

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965

Law and Disorder
1958

The Wrong Box
1966

The Sandwich Man
1966

Desert Mice
1959

Au Pair Girls
1972

Josephine and Men
1955

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970

The Admirable Crichton
1957

Make Me an Offer!
1954

Go to Blazes
1962

The Battle of the River Plate
1956

Three for All
1975

Our Man in Havana
1960

Ben-Hur
1959

I Was Monty's Double
1958
Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
2001

The Good Companions
1957

Gideon's Day
1958

A Touch of Larceny
1960

Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1
1957

Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007

Casino Royale
1967

Adam Adamant Lives!
1966

Bod
1975

Thriller
1973

The Avengers
1961

Jason King
1971

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Brideshead Revisited
1981

Interpol Calling
1959

Hancock's Half Hour
1956

Play for Today
1970

Hi-de-Hi!
1980

The Adventures of William Tell
1958

George and the Dragon
1966
Dial RIX
1962

Scotland Yard
1953
A Class by Himself
1971
The Railway Children
1951

Crown Court
1972

Ripping Yarns
1976
Pardon the Expression
1965

The Goodies
1970

Dear Mother... ...Love Albert
1969

Sykes
1972

Worzel Gummidge
1979

Morecambe & Wise
1961

BBC Play of the Month
1965
Festival
1963
Story Parade
1964
Black and Blue
1973

All Gas and Gaiters
1967

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973

Two in Clover
1969

Theatre 625
1964

Sunday Night Theatre
1950

Dad's Army at the BBC
2025

Centre Play
1973

Dad's Army
1968

Armchair Theatre
1956

A Married Man
1983
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960

Danger Man
1960

The Wednesday Play
1964
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
Between the Wars
1973

NET Playhouse
1966

Shades of Greene
1975

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965