Douglas Jefferies

{{Short description|British actor (1884–1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Douglas Jefferies | image = Actor_Douglas_Jefferies.jpg | image_size = | caption = 1939 Spotlight photo | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1884|04|21}} | birth_place = Islington, England, United Kingdom | death_date = December 1959 | death_place = England, United Kingdom | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1931-1953 (film & TV) }} '''Douglas Jefferies''' (1884–1959) was a British stage and film actor.<ref>Murray p.225</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/gxx/douglas-jefferies|title=Douglas Jefferies - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac3088d9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827182359/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac3088d9|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 August 2017|title=Douglas Jefferies|publisher=}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''A Safe Affair'' (1931) - Henry * ''Channel Crossing'' (1933) - Dr. Walkley * ''What Happened to Harkness?'' (1934) - (uncredited) * ''The Cardinal'' (1936) - Baglioni * ''While the Sun Shines'' (1947) - The Duke of Ayr and Stirling * ''The Loves of Joanna Godden'' (1947) - Huggett * ''Frieda'' (1947) - Hobson * ''The Long Dark Hall'' (1951) - Dr. Conway

==Selected stage roles== * ''Lean Harvest'' by Ronald Jeans (1931) *''Victoria Regina'' by Laurence Housman (1937) * ''While the Sun Shines'' by Terence Rattigan (1943) * ''Home Is Tomorrow'' by J.B. Priestley (1948) * ''Cry Liberty'' by Esther McCracken (1950) * ''The Seventh Veil'' by Sydney Box (1951)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Christopher Murray. ''Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work, a Biography''. Gill & Macmillan, 2004.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0420126}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jefferies, Douglas}} Category:1884 births Category:1959 deaths Category:British male film actors Category:British male stage actors Category:British male television actors Category:Actors from the London Borough of Islington