The Boultings used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Malleson.

The character was modelled after actor John Le Mesurier.

* The Invasion Quartet ( 1961 ), he plays a leader of commandos, also featuring Bill Travers and John Le Mesurier.

In the BBC's 1981 radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is played by John Le Mesurier.

Each episode featured, apart from Palin, well-known guest actors including Ian Ogilvy, Kenneth Colley, Liz Smith, Roy Kinnear, Frank Middlemass, Iain Cuthbertson, John Le Mesurier, Jan Francis, Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Joan Sanderson and others.

In 1962 Sykes played his first starring film role, being a travelling salesman in the comedy Village of Daughters, set in an Italian village, but featuring a mostly British cast including John Le Mesurier ( who was at that time married to Hattie Jacques ), and Roger Delgado.

An edition of Hugh and I (" Chinese Crackers "), starring Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, John Le Mesurier and David Jason was located by Kaleidoscope Publishing in 2010 in the archives of ' UCLA, and bought to general public attention in February 2011.

John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley ( 5 April 191215 November 1983 ), better known as John Le Mesurier, was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor.

Born in Bedfordshire, England, Le Mesurier became interested in the stage from an early age and enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art in 1933.

Le Mesurier went on to appear in over 100 films, mostly portraying figures of authority such as army officers, policemen and judges, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ), Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

A heavy drinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died on 15 November 1983, aged 71 from a stomach haemorrhage, a complication of the cirrhosis of the liver from which he had suffered during his final years.

Le Mesurier was born at 35 Chaucer Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire in 1912.

His parents were Charles Elton Halliley, a solicitor, and Amy Michelle ( née Le Mesurier ), whose family were from Alderney in the Channel Islands ; both families were affluent with histories of government service, or work in the legal profession.

He was brought up in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and educated at Grenham House school in Kent and Sherborne School in Dorset, where he attended classes with Alan Turing ; Le Mesurier disliked both institutions intensely.

From an early age, Le Mesurier was interested in the stage.

In September 1933 he enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, along with Alec Guinness, with whom Le Mesurier became close friends.

In July 1934 the Studio provided their annual public review and both Le Mesurier and Guinness took part ; among the judges for the event were John Gielgud, Leslie Henson, Alfred Hitchcock and Ivor Novello.

Le Mesurier received a Certificate of Fellowship, while Guinness won the Fay Compton prize.

Rather than remain at the studio for further tuition Le Mesurier decided to leave and take a position in repertory theatre with the Edinburgh-based Millicent Ward Repertory Players, earning £ 3. 10s a week.

The reviewer for The Scotsman thought that Le Mesurier was " well cast ".

After appearances in successive months at the Palladium, in productions of While Parents Sleep, Dangerous Corner and Cavalcade, a break took place in the season because of problems with the lease at the theatre: in the interim, Le Mesurier accepted an offer to work with his friend Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Le Mesurier was an extra in the play, although he was also the understudy for Anthony Quayle's role of Guildenstern.

Sydney Le Blanc, age 15, Staten Island, N.Y., showing a Doberman Pinscher, was 2nd.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

However, Braudel's informal successor as head of the school was Le Roy Ladurie, who was unable to maintain a consistent focus.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

The most important was the study of the Peasants of Languedoc by Braudel's star pupil and successor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

He was charged with failure to report for duty, and was imprisoned in Le Havre and then Rouen.

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.

Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.