Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was a British actor, screenwriter and film director.

Quotes

 * We grabbed their hands and dragged them home. Ah, I hope they’ve forgiven me.
 * On removing his young actors (who were playing children) from a pub while directing The Railway Children, as cited in "Actor-director Lionel Jeffries dies at 83", The Times (20 February 2010).


 * Dick Van Dyke was older than me and I was playing his dad.
 * Of his role in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; "Lionel Jeffries, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang actor, dies", The Telegraph (19 February 2010).