Bernard L. Kowalski
Bernard Kowalski is an important figure in television with a long and impressive list of credits. To mention a select few, he directed the pilots for Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957), N.Y.P.D. (1967) and The Monroes (1966); executive-produced Baretta (1975); and was co-owner of Mission: Impossible (1966). Kowalski got his first job in the movie business at the age of five as an extra in several Dead End Kids pictures at Warner Brothers, as well as such Errol Flynn vehicles as Dodge City (1939) and Virginia City (1940). His experience behind the camera began at age 17 when he worked as a clerk for his father, who was an assistant director and production manager. TV provided Kowalski with his first opportunity to direct on such Western series as Frontier (1955) and Boots and Saddles (1956); he then made the transition to feature-film directing in 1958 when he was hired by Gene Corman (brother of Roger Corman) to helm the teen exploitation feature Hot Car Girl (1958).
Bernard L. Schwartz
Bernard L. Schwartz is known for PBS NewsHour Weekend (2013) and Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (2016).
Bernard Lafayette
Bernard Lafayette is known for Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement (2009), Leaving Selma (2011) and Pilgrimage: John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement (2021).
Bernard Lajarrige
Bernard Lajarrige was born on February 25, 1912 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France. He was an actor, known for Il suffit d'aimer (1961), Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967) and Au p'tit zouave (1950). He died on May 29, 1999 in Paris, France.
Bernard Larmande
Bernard Larmande is an actor, known for Le journal (1979), I... comme Icare (1979) and La trilogie marseillaise: Marius (2000).
Bernard Laxa
Bernard Laxa is known for Showdown in Manila (2016), Wildflower (2017) and Dayang Asu (2015).
Bernard Le Coq
Bernard Le Coq was born on September 25, 1950 in Le Blanc, Indre, France. He is an actor, known for Joyeux Noël (2005), Van Gogh (1991) and Caché (2005).
Bernard Le Gall
Bernard Le Gall is known for Encore un peu de patience mon amour (2020), What a Flash! (1972) and L'oiseau (2011).
Bernard Lee
Best remembered as 'M' in the James Bond films, Bernard Lee was a popular character player in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Born into a theatrical family, he made his stage debut at age six and later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He first appeared on the West End stage in London in 1928, and continued to work in the theatre during the 1930s, taking only occasional film roles. It was only after World War II that he concentrated his efforts on the cinema, and was much in demand in British films of the 1950s as friendly authority figures, including army sergeants, police detectives or navy officers. Detectives became a particular specialty, and he played this role in more than a dozen films, including The Blue Lamp (1950), Beat the Devil (1953) and Father Brown (1954). In the early 1960s, he also made regular appearances as police detectives in the The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959) second feature series, usually as "Inspector Meredith". He also made memorable appearances in The Third Man (1949), Morning Departure (1950), Gift Horse (1952), The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Dunkirk (1958) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961). He was effectively cast against type in only two films, as the union agitator in The Angry Silence (1960), and as a disgruntled civil servant who becomes a spy for the Russians in Ring of Spies (1964). In 1962, he made his first appearance as the head of the British secret service in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). He went on to be featured in the next ten films in the series, appearing with Sean Connery, George Lazenby and, later, Roger Moore as Bond, and will probably be considered the definitive "M" by more than one generation of Bond fans.
Bernard Lesane
Bernard Lesane is an actor, known for Dark Awakening: A Star Wars Fan Film (2015), Black Water Creek (2014) and Love Cycle: Beautiful Mistake (2014).
