Out of Bounds is a comedy thriller play by the British writer Arthur Watkyn.

It enjoyed a successful run at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End with Michael Redgrave in the lead role of Lancelot Dodd, a naive headmaster who is an exact Doppelgänger of a British spy who has recently died.

[1] The West End cast also included Pauline Jameson, Anton Diffring, Graham Armitage, Peter Stephens, Michael Balfour, Michael Bates, Lionel Gamlin and Charles Heslop.

In 1964 it was made into a West German film A Mission for Mr. Dodd directed by Günter Gräwert and Heinz Rühmann and Maria Sebaldt.

Anton Diffring who had appeared in the West End play, was also in the film cast.