Maurice Denham
Maurice Denham OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Day of the Jackal
as General ColbertAn international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to...
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Animal Farm
as All animals (voice)Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands....
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Oliver Twist
as Chief of PoliceWhen 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second...
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Trawler SkipperIn order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers...
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Julia
as UndertakerAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous...
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Night of the Demon
as Professor Henry HarringtonAmerican professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to...
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The Heroes of Telemark
as DoctorSet in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist...
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Sink the Bismarck!
as Commander RichardsThe story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser...
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84 Charing Cross Road
as George MartinWhen a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of...
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The Million Pound Note
as Jonathan ReidAn impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...
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Torture Garden
as Uncle Roger (segment 1 "Enoch")Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a...
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Countess Dracula
as Master FabioHungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory...
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23 Paces to Baker Street
as Inspector GroveningPhilip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that...
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Operation Crossbow
as RAF OfficerAllied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets...
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The Nanny
as Dr. BeamasterNanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric...
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Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Mr. GrevilleRecently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod...
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Paranoiac
as John KossettA psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a...
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After the Fox
as Chief of InterpolA criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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No Highway in the Sky
as uncreditedJames Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded...
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Malta Story
as British OfficerMalta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island,...
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Our Man in Havana
as AdmiralJim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage...
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The Purple Plain
as BloreA RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a...
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The Alphabet Murders
as JappThe Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the...
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
as Luther CrackenthorpeTravelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train -...
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The Last Vampyre
as Augustus MerridewSherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a...
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Some Girls Do
as Mr. MortimerA series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing...
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H.M.S. Defiant
as Mr. Goss (Ship's Surgeon)Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the...
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Barnacle Bill
as CrowleyA seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S....
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Two Way Stretch
as The GovernorThree criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a...
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Shout at the Devil
as Mr. SmytheDuring World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's...
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A Touch of Love
as Doctor ProtheroIntellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the...
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Simon and Laura
as WilsonA couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Doctor at Sea
as EasterThe second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...
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The 7th Dawn
as TarltonPolitical and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of...
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The Night Caller
as Dr. MorleyThe inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct....
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They Made Me a Fugitive
as Mr. FenshawAfter being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Miranda
as Cockle VendorA young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see...
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Time Bomb
as Jim WarrilowWhen a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call...
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Checkpoint
as Ted ThornhillStanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to...
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Jassy
as Jim StonerIn 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight....
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The Chain
as GrandpaComedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on...
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The Long Duel
as GovernorAn idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the...
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Luther
as Johann von Staupitz Vicar GeneralOne sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
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The Spanish Gardener
as Pedro (voice) (uncredited)Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a...
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Schalcken the Painter
as Gerrit DouCan Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
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The Spider and the Fly
as Colonel de la Roche"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline...
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The Man Within
as SmugglerA man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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The Captain's Table
as Major BrosterA captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner....
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Hysteria
as HemmingsAn American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a...
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All Passion Spent
as Gervase Bucktrouthis three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by...
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The Blue Lagoon
as CaptainIn the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After...
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The Upturned Glass
as Mobile PolicemanA neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a...
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Memento Mori
as Guy LeetSeveral elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious...
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Tears in the Rain
as FordingbridgeWhen Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to...
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Holiday Camp
as Camp DoctorThe Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on...
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It's Not Cricket
as Otto FischKicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The...
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The Greengage Summer
as Mr. BullockSensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in...
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Carrington V.C.
as Lt. Col. ReeveMajor Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also...
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Quartet
as CoronerSomerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The...
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Here Come the Huggetts
as 1st EngineerThe Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for...
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Blanche Fury
as Maj. FraserPenniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury...
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The Mark
as Arnold CartwrightA man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the...
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The Net
as Prof. CarringtonA secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by...
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London Belongs to Me
as Jack RufusClassic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas...
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Captain Boycott
as Lt. Col. StricklandBased on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when...
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Poet's Pub
as PC WindleA loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching...
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Midas Run
as Charles CrittendenA veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of...
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The Best House in London
as Editor, The TimesIn Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution...
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The Virgin and the Gypsy
as The RectorFilm adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death...
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Street Corner
as DawsonA pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built...
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Daybreak
as InspectorA mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Take My Life
as Defense CounselWhen her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
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My Brother's Keeper
as TrentWar hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive...
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Danger Route
as Peter RavenspurJonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work,...
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The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
as Mr. FieldingWhen a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless,...
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From a Far Country
as SapiehaThis heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the...
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Madness of the Heart
as Dr. Simon BlakeA blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly...
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as (voice)Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could...
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Eight O'Clock Walk
as Horace CliffordOnly a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr)...
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Monsignor Quixote
as Senor DiegoSir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest...
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Robert Rylands' Last Journey
as HumeLoosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the...
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The Dog It Was That Died
as VicarRupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5....
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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
as Bill MartinThe lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic...
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of CanterburyWhile still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...
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Mr. Love
as TheoAn fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to...
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Easy Money
as Detective-Inspector KirbyA win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an...
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Look Before You Love
as FosserRomance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
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Martin Luther, Heretic
as Father StaupitzMartin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of...
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Fame Is the Spur
as Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately...
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The Very Edge
as CrawfordTracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds...
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Once Upon a Dream
as VicarAn officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it...
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The Blind Goddess
as JohnsonJustice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a...
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Piping Hot
as NarratorAn animated film about the history and use of hot water.
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Klaus BarbieDecades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
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Traveller's Joy
as FowlerA divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before...
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Seeing in the Dark
as Old ManTony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels...
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Ali and the Camel
as uncreditedEight part serial. When Ali's father, a diver, has to go to hospital, Ali is offered money by a...
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The End of the River
as Defence CounselA South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he...
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Downfall
as uncreditedHarold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming...
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Love's Labour's Lost
as Don Adriano de ArmandoA scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only...
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Landfall
as Wing Commander HewittA British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a...
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Invasion Quartet
as uncreditedThis British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers...
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Don't Ever Leave Me
as Mr. KnowlesElderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap...
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The Hope and the Glory
as JoeSam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely,...
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The Uncle
as Mr. ReamGus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his...
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A Slight Ache
as EdwardIn the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast,...
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Recluse
as uncreditedA reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of...
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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
as EdgeworthA race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends...
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The History of the Cinema
as NarratorA humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.
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The King's Breakfast
as The KingA king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
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Bed
as ManSurreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.
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A Desperate Case
as Narrator (voice)A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly...
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The Set Up
as Theo GauntArthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his...
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Minder
as BillingsThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Minder
as Meredith GascoyneThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Doctor Who
as Edgeworth / AzmaelThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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Sherlock Holmes
as Reverend MerridewSherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...
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Peak Practice
as Douglas HartPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Peak Practice
as Mr. HartPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Great Performances
as Senor DiegoThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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Inspector Morse
as Lance MandevilleInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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Lovejoy
as Sir Max SpenceThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Casualty
as William TurnbullDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Pie in the Sky
as Striker of the YardPie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...
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Rumpole of the Bailey
as uncreditedRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...
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Maigret
as Tiburce de St. HilaireBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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Performance
as Don FranciscoAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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The Professionals
as Sir James TempleThe lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...
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Return of the Saint
as Prince LorenzoFollow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
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Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as uncreditedDr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971....
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Thirty-Minute Theatre
as CrowtherThirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...
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Miss Marple
as Luther CrackenthorpeMiss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...
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Boon
as uncreditedBoon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David...
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Secret Army
as Father GirardWorld War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Julius CaesarPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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Danger Man
as VolosDanger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...
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Sherlock Holmes
as uncreditedSherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television...
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The Agatha Christie Hour
as uncreditedThis ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with...
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The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mr. FieldingWalt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...
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Angels
as uncreditedAngels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print...
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You Rang, M'Lord?
as Captain Cedric DolbyYou Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the...
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Porridge
as uncreditedPorridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three...
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Porridge
as RawleyPorridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three...
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A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Gerrit DouA strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing...
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The Lotus Eaters
as uncreditedThey say that once you have eaten from the lotus plant - you will never want to return home. To...
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Fall of Eagles
as Kaiser Wilhelm I"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series...
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The Chinese Detective
as uncreditedChinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the...
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Out of This World
as uncreditedOut of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC...
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Edward and Mrs Simpson
as Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of CanterburyWhile still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...
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Talking to a Stranger
as uncreditedA grown-up brother and sister's visit to their parents home culminates in a shocking tragedy....
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All Passion Spent
as BucktroutWith the death of her husband, elderly Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her...
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Behaving Badly
as uncreditedBehaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by...
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