Bernard Lee

Born: 1908-01-10

John Bernard "Bernard" Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.


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Dr. No

as M
Released: 1962-10-07

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific...

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You Only Live Twice

as M
Released: 1967-06-13

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two...

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as M
Released: 1963-10-10

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a...

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as M
Released: 1964-09-20

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and...

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as M
Released: 1973-06-27

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he...

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Thunderball

as M
Released: 1965-12-11

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound...

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The Man with the Golden Gun

as M
Released: 1974-12-01

Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's...

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The Third Man

as Sergeant Paine
Released: 1949-08-31

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a...

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as M
Released: 1971-12-14

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a...

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

as M
Released: 1969-12-18

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps...

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Moonraker

as M
Released: 1979-06-26

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned...

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as M
Released: 1977-07-07

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a...

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Dunkirk

as Charles Foreman
Released: 1958-03-20

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their...

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Sink the Bismarck!

as Firing Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1960-02-11

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser...

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Sink the Bismarck!

as Firing Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1960-02-11

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser...

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

as Patmore
Released: 1965-12-16

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to...

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The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
Released: 1956-10-30

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep...

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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

as Hopkins (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")
Released: 1965-02-23

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read...

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Beat the Devil

as Insp. Jack Clayton
Released: 1953-11-26

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

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The Fallen Idol

as Detective Hart
Released: 1948-09-30

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of...

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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

as Tarmut
Released: 1974-04-01

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its...

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The Purple Plain

as Dr. Harris
Released: 1954-09-14

A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a...

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Last Holiday

as Inspector Wilton
Released: 1950-05-15

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live....

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Whistle Down the Wind

as Mr. Bostock
Released: 1961-07-25

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three...

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The Blue Lamp

as Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
Released: 1950-01-19

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a...

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Kidnapped

as Captain Hoseason
Released: 1960-02-24

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite...

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Gift Horse

as A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
Released: 1952-06-01

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The...

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Fire Down Below

as Doctor Sam
Released: 1957-05-30

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a...

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The Angry Silence

as Bert Connolly
Released: 1960-03-10

When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking...

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The Raging Moon

as Uncle Bob
Released: 1971-01-21

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence...

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Odette

as Jack
Released: 1950-10-02

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette...

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Father Brown

as Inspector Valentine
Released: 1954-06-08

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has...

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The Key

as Cmdr. Wadlow
Released: 1958-05-28

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged...

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The L-Shaped Room

as Charlie
Released: 1962-11-20

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in...

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Cage of Gold

as Inspector Grey
Released: 1950-10-23

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged,...

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Quartet

as Ned Preston, a Prison Visitor
Released: 1948-10-26

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The...

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Crossplot

as Chilmore
Released: 1969-11-25

A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots,...

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Web of Evidence

as Patrick Mathry
Released: 1959-04-28

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for...

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The Incredible World of James Bond

as Bernard Lee: M (Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG)
Released: 1965-11-26

This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the...

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Percy's Progress

as Barraclough
Released: 1974-08-01

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in...

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Sailor of the King

as Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
Released: 1953-06-11

A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she...

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Nowhere to Go

as Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
Released: 1958-12-02

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to...

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Danger Within

as Lieutenant Colonel Huxley
Released: 1959-02-17

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British...

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Dulcima

as Mr Gaskain
Released: 1971-12-01

Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly...

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From Hong Kong with Love

as M
Released: 1975-12-17

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan...

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The Ship That Died of Shame

as Customs Officer Brewster
Released: 1955-04-19

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into...

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Appointment with Venus

as Brigadier
Released: 1951-10-08

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel...

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The Spanish Gardener

as Leighton Bailey
Released: 1956-12-25

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a...

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Ring of Spies

as Henry Houghton
Released: 1964-03-23

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled...

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Operation Kid Brother

as Commander Cunningham
Released: 1967-04-20

The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave...

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Murder in Soho

as Roy Barnes
Released: 1939-02-01

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

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Fury at Smugglers' Bay

as Black John
Released: 1961-01-01

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time...

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The Secret Partner

as D.S. Frank Hanbury
Released: 1961-05-01

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

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The Yellow Balloon

as Constable Chapman
Released: 1953-02-10

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

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Across the Bridge

as Chief Inspector Hadden
Released: 1957-08-20

In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man...

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A Christmas Carol

as Ghost of Christmas Present
Released: 1977-12-24

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own...

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The Brain

as Dr. Frank Shears
Released: 1962-09-05

A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues...

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The Courtneys of Curzon Street

as Colonel Gascoyne
Released: 1947-04-11

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's...

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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

as Sgt. Ben
Released: 1981-01-04

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a...

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-08-01

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of...

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High Flight

as Flight Sergeant Harris
Released: 1957-09-17

The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet...

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The Frozen Limits

as Bill McGrew
Released: 1939-11-01

The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.

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The New Lot

as Interviewing Officer
Released: 1943-01-01

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment,...

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Seagulls Over Sorrento

as Lofty Turner
Released: 1954-07-13

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their...

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Mr. Denning Drives North

as Inspector Dodds
Released: 1951-12-18

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty...

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Morning Departure

as Cmdr. Gates
Released: 1950-02-21

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued...

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Beauty and the Beast

as Edward Beaumont
Released: 1976-12-03

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to...

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Elizabeth of Ladymead

as John Beresford in 1903
Released: 1948-12-22

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer...

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Let George Do It!

as Oscar
Released: 1940-07-12

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and...

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The Man Upstairs

as Inspector Thompson
Released: 1958-09-30

The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological...

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The Man Who Died Twice

as Francis Cumberland
Released: 1973-04-13

A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with...

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Trouble in the Sky

as Capt. George Gort
Released: 1960-05-09

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash...

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Saturday Night Out

as George Hudson
Released: 1964-04-01

Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.

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Partners in Crime

as Inspector Mann
Released: 1961-02-01

British crime film directed by Peter Duffell and starring Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond and John...

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A Place to Go

as Matt Flint
Released: 1963-07-01

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that...

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The Terror

as Ferry Fane
Released: 1938-05-02

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his...

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White Corridors

as Burgess
Released: 1951-01-12

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the...

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Clue of the Silver Key

as uncredited
Released: 1961-08-01

The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.

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Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Colonel Webson
Released: 1951-07-02

Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

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Murrain

as Beeley
Released: 1975-07-27

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill,...

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Out of the Clouds

as Customs Officer
Released: 1955-02-15

A day following workers at an airport

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Spare a Copper

as Jake
Released: 1940-12-02

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of...

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Who Was Maddox?

as uncredited
Released: 1964-06-01

A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer...

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Fortune in Diamonds

as O'Connell
Released: 1951-03-07

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He...

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Clue of the Twisted Candle

as uncredited
Released: 1960-09-01

A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.

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The Share Out

as uncredited
Released: 1962-02-01

A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at...

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The Adventures of Dusty Bates

as Captain Ford
Released: 1947-09-01

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Sir Peter Teazle
First aired: 1965-10-19

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...

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The Champions

as Squires
First aired: 1968-09-25

The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series...

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The Persuaders!

as Sam Milford
First aired: 1971-09-17

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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The Human Jungle

as Jim Garner
First aired: 1963-03-30

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...

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Man in a Suitcase

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-27

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-03-01

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park...

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Journey to the Unknown

as Ben Loker
First aired: 1968-09-26

A British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and...

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The Expert

as Harry Kirby
First aired: 1968-07-05

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...

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Strange Report

as Arthur Pater
First aired: 1969-09-21

Strange Report is a British television Adam Strange, a retired Home Office criminologist,...

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Danger Man

as Lord Ammanford
First aired: 1960-09-11

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Beaumont
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Warship

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-06-07

Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977....

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Father Brown

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-26

Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.

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