Paul Daneman

Born: 1925-10-29

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paul Daneman (29 October 1925 - 28 April 2001) was an English film, television, theatre and voice actor. Paul Frederick Daneman was born in Islington, London. He attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School and Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and studied stage design at Reading University where he joined the dramatic society. After training at RADA he joined Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep and the Old Vic for four years. In August 1955 he created the role of Vladimir in Waiting For Godot, at the Arts Theatre in Westminster. His film credits include: Zulu and Oh! What a Lovely War. Daneman's TV credits include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Persuasion (1960 series), Danger Man, Out of the Unknown, The Saint, Spy Trap, Blake's 7, The Professionals and Rumpole of the Bailey. The BBC's 1960 landmark production "||An Age of Kings]]," a fifteen part drama that combined Shakespeare's histories of the Kings of England and presented them in chronological order, featured Daneman as Richard III. Daneman played the husband of Wendy Craig in the original series of the popular BBC sitcom Not in Front of the Children before being replaced by Ronald Hines. He also played Bilbo Baggins in the 1968 BBC Radio dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. While recovering from a heart attack, he wrote the sitcom Affairs of the Heart. In 1995 Daneman published If I Only Had Wings, a novel inspired by his experiences in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Daneman died in 2001 and was buried at East Sheen Cemetery, South West London. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Daneman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​


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as Sgt. Maxfield
Released: 1964-01-22

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in...

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Czar Nicholas II
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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How I Won the War

as Skipper
Released: 1967-10-18

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa...

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Tears in the Rain

as Lord Richard Bredon
Released: 1988-01-01

When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to...

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Time Without Pity

as Brian Stanford
Released: 1957-03-21

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a...

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Roman Holiday

as King
Released: 1987-12-28

Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about"...

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Theban Plays: Antigone

as Chorus
Released: 1986-09-19

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The Little Match Girl

as Mr. Fairbrother
Released: 1986-12-28

The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The...

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Jessie

as Matthews
Released: 1980-12-23

A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing...

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Thatcher: The Final Days

as Douglas Hurd
Released: 1991-09-11

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's...

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Clue of the New Pin

as Rex Lander
Released: 1961-02-01

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose...

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Locker Sixty-Nine

as Frank Griffiths
Released: 1962-09-01

A shady business man has perpetrated a fraud that has resulted in the death of a large number of...

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

as Duke of Milan
Released: 1983-12-27

Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus...

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as Prime Minister
Released: 1989-10-22

Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs....

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as Professor Frank Merrick
Released: 1982-03-09

It is the mid-1980s. The economy has not improved. For 17 years Professor Frank Merrick has been...

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Fun at St. Fanny's

as Fudge - The Porter
Released: 1955-12-15

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St....

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The Fourth Square

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-01

The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.

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Peril for the Guy

as Professor Picton
Released: 1956-01-01

Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on...

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BBC Play of the Month

as Henry Trebell
First aired: 1965-10-19

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

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Blake's 7

as Dr. Bellfriar
First aired: 1978-01-02

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran...

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The Saint

as Dr. Ormsby
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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The Professionals

as Dawson
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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Rumpole of the Bailey

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-12-17

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...

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An Age of Kings

as Richard
First aired: 1960-04-28

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over...

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The Adventurer

as Stopford
First aired: 1972-09-29

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran...

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Journey to the Unknown

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-26

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

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Not in Front of the Children

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-05-26

Not in Front of the Children is a BBC television situation comedy, which ran for four series...

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G.B.H.

as Mervyn Sloan
First aired: 1991-06-06

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of...

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Our Mutual Friend

as John Rokesmith
First aired: 1958-11-07

Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.

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Emma

as George Knightley
First aired: 1960-02-26

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Persuasion

as Frederick Wentworth
First aired: 1960-12-30

Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the...

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