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William Maurice Denham, OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films in his long career.
Denham was born in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Eleanor Winifred (née Lillico) and Norman Denham. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained as a lift engineer. Denham eventually became an actor in 1934 and appeared in live television broadcasts as early as 1938, continuing to perform in that medium until 1997. Like fellow actor James Robertson Justice he played amateur rugby for Beckenham RFC.
Denham initially made his name in radio comedy series such as ITMA and Much Binding in the Marsh (providing over sixty different voices, female as well as male, according to a radio interview in November 1988), and later provided all the voices for the animated version of Animal Farm (1954). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Blore in 1954's The Purple Plain. Other film credits include 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Night of the Demon (1957), Two-Way Stretch (1960), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), H.M.S. Defiant (1962), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Minder on the Orient Express (1985) and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Sunday Bloody Sunday Trailer - Directed by John Schlesinger and starring Peter Finch, Murray Head, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham, Frank Windsor. A divorced working-woman, Alex, and a well-to-do doctor, Daniel Hirsh, share not only the same answering service but also the favors of the young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him. Both Alex and Dr. Hirsh are aware of the other's existence but prefer to live with the situation rather than risk losing Elkin completely. MGM - 1971
This is the strange and quite disturbing scene in Cavalcanti's 'They Made Me a Fugitive' where escaped convict Trevor Howard seeks refuge in the home of housewife Vida Hope. To his surprise, she readily agrees to help him, but she has her own agenda...Vida Hope plays the scene in a very wooden manner, which rather spolis the overall effect, but I have always found this such an unusual scene in the film, and it also includes Howard's line about only doing in peace time what he was paid to do in wartime, which did not please the censors.
Maurice Denham, with Brian Lawrence and his Lansdowne Orchestra. This recording was used in a vintage cartoon, a Fleischer Cartoon
A feature-length drama first broadcast in the BBC's Saturday Playhouse slot in October 1995 co-starring the great English character actor Maurice Denham (1909-2002), perhaps best known to horror fans for his role as Professor Harrington in NIGHT OF THE DEMON.
By John Mortimer. Adapted for radio by Richard Stoneman. Following in the footsteps of several distinguished former Rumpoles - Leo McKern, Maurice Denham, Timothy West and Benedict Cumberbatch - Julian Rhind-Tutt, one of Radio 4's most popular actors and much loved star of TV's Green Wing and The Hour, now dons the wig and white bands of the most erudite, astute, and seldom defeated of barristers in the annals of the Old Bailey. Rumpole's long-suffering wife Hilda - She Who Must Be Obeyed - narrates a fascinating tale of murder and romance that Horace would prefer to remain untold. An instructing solicitor, Daniel Newcombe, asks Rumpole to defend a young man, Michael Skelton, who's accused of bludgeoning his father to death with a golf club. Hilda finds Daniel to be everything that Hora...
1958 STARRING JOHN GREGSON JOAN SIMS JUNE JAGO AND MAURICE DENHAM. CLASSIC MOVIES ALL MOVIES ARE IN ENGLISH. They asked for it, and they got it. Join as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Celebrity Roasts. For this list, we're focusing mainly . An important public service announcement brought to you by the comedy legend Harry Enfield and his Chums. From BBC. Watch more Harry Enfield clips with .
Veteran British secret service officer John Pedley, irritated that he has never been knighted, decides to hijack a government shipment of $15 million in gold ingots being flown from Zurich to Tanzania via Italy. He contacts an American acquaintance, writer Mike Warden, who has recently lost his university position because of his pacifist political views, and lures him to Venice on the pretense of introducing him to an interested publisher; instead, Mike is introduced to Sylvia Giroux, Pedley's accomplice, and persuaded to help organize the heist. While Pedley directs the operation from London, Sylvia and Mike make the necessary arrangements in Italy: a Messerschmidt piloted by a former Luftwaffe officer will shoot down the plane carrying the gold, and ex-Fascist general Aldo Ferranti will ...
Italia \ Uk 1981 di Krzysztof Zanussi con Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow, Cezary Morawski, Maurice Denham, John Welsh, Jerzy Zelnik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Biografia di papa Wojtila dal Natale del 1926 festeggiato in Polonia con il padre agli anni del pontificato, passando per la tragedia della Seconda guerra mondiale.
Maurice Denham, with Brian Lawrence and his Lansdowne Orchestra. This recording was used in a vintage cartoon, a Fleischer Cartoon
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Read by Maurice Denham. As broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4 October 1988
A feature-length drama first broadcast in the BBC's Saturday Playhouse slot in October 1995 co-starring the great English character actor Maurice Denham (1909-2002), perhaps best known to horror fans for his role as Professor Harrington in NIGHT OF THE DEMON.
George Fenneman hosts this trailer for the 1953 thriller starring Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon and Maurice Denham.
BBC Play of the Month adaptation, originally broadcast on the 13th of April 1969. Featuring Robert Stephens as Mark Antony, Maurice Denham as Julius Caesar, Frank Finlay as Brutus and Edward Woodward as Cassius. Please visit my blog www.archivetvmusings.wordpress.com for reviews and news concerning old British television.
SUBSCRIBE TO growingup - https://www.youtube.com/c/growingup As the Napoleonic wars rage, 12-year-old Midshipman Harvey Crawford (David Robinson) joins his father Captain Crawford (Alec Guinness) on board His Majesty's man-o'-war Defiant, but he is not given special treatment. He falls foul of the devious First Lieutenant Scott-Padgett (Dirk Bogarde), which leads to excessive canings by Senior Midshipman Kilpatrick (Nigel Stock). Eventually the alcoholic surgeon Mr. Goss (Maurice Denham) intervenes, leading to a confrontation between the Captain and his First Lieutenant. Dirk Bogarde lights up the screen at every appearance, needing the calibre of Alec Guinness to stop him stealing the film entirely. You can see the film trailer here - https://youtu.be/fly3qSr7KE0 SUBSCRIBE TO growingup - ...
Italia \ Uk 1981 di Krzysztof Zanussi con Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow, Cezary Morawski, Maurice Denham, John Welsh, Jerzy Zelnik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Biografia di papa Wojtila dal Natale del 1926 festeggiato in Polonia con il padre agli anni del pontificato, passando per la tragedia della Seconda guerra mondiale.
A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas Writers: George Orwell (based on memorable fable), Lothar Wolff (story) Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
The Best House in London is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Philip Saville and starring David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Warren Mitchell, John Bird,Maurice Denham and Bill Fraser. In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel. En la Londres de la época Victoriana, el Gobierno Británico intenta solucionar el problema de la prostitución, estableciendo el prostíbulo más fabuloso del mundo.
BBC 3 Radio Drama performed by the Renaissance Theatre Company. Cast in order of speaking: Kent - Keith Michel Cloucester - Richard Briers Edmund - Kenneth Branagh Lear - John Gielgud Goneril - Judi Dench Cordelia - Emma Thompson Regan - Eileen Atkins Albany - John Shrapnel Cornwall - Robert Stephens Burgundy - Denis Quilley France - Derek Jacobi Edgar - Iain Glen Oswald - Bod Hoskins Knight - Simon Russell Beale Fool - Michael Williams First Gentleman - Nickolas Grace Curan - Sam Dastor Servant - Harry Towb Old Man - Maurice Denham First Messenger - Bernard Cribbins Second Gentleman - Matthew Morgan Second Messenger - Nicholas Boulton Captain - Sam Dastor Herald - Peter Hall Other parts played by members of the company. Directed by Glyn Dearman. Music by Patrick Doyle. Broadcast on ...
The King's Breakfast is a 1963 British family film directed by Wendy Toye and starring Maurice Denham, Mischa Auer and Reginald Beckwith. It was based on the poem The King's Breakfast by A.A. Milne.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Starring Robert Stephes BBC Play of the Month adaptation, originally broadcast on the 13th of April 1969. Featuring Robert Stephens as Mark Antony, Maurice Denham as Julius Caesar, Frank Finlay as Brutus and Edward Woodward as Cassius. Please visit my blog www.archivetvmusings.wordpress.com for reviews and news concerning old British television.