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He appeared in an episode of the Thames Television/ ITV comedy drama Minder in 1983 as Cecil Caine, an eccentric widower, and in an episode of Inspector Morse in 1990 (Central Television/ Zenith/ITV). He reluctantly appeared on television in an acting role in the 1980 London Weekend Television Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee and realised that television production values were now little different from those in the film industry as a result he developed a belated career in television. Jeffries had a negative attitude towards television and avoided the medium for many years. He was a member of the British Catholic Stage Guild.

Jeffries turned to writing and directing children's films, including a well-regarded version of The Railway Children (1970) and The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). His acting career reached a peak in the 1960s with leading roles in other films like Two-Way Stretch (1960), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), Murder Ahoy! (opposite Margaret Rutherford), First Men in the Moon (1964) and Camelot (1967). Jeffries built a successful career in British films mainly in comic character roles and as he was prematurely bald he often played characters older than himself, such as the role of father to Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke) in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), although Jeffries was actually six months younger than Van Dyke. He entered repertory at the David Garrick Theatre, Lichfield, Staffordshire for two years and appeared in early British television plays. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ) He also served as a captain in the Royal West African Frontier Force.

(He blamed the humidity there for his hair loss at the age of 19. In 1945, he received a commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served in Burma at the Rangoon radio station during the Second World War, being awarded the Burma Star. As a boy, he attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wimborne Minster in Dorset. Both his parents were social workers with the Salvation Army. Jeffries was born in Forest Hill, south London.

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