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Maurice Denham is a Actor British born on 23 december 1909 at London Borough of Bromley (United-kingdom)

Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham
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Birth name William Maurice Denham
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 december 1909 at London Borough of Bromley (United-kingdom)
Death 24 july 2002 (at 92 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

William 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.

Biography

Maurice Denham apparaît au cinéma, dans des films britanniques (majoritairement) et américains, ou des coproductions, de 1947 à 1996. Un de ses films les plus connus est La Flamme pourpre (1954), qui lui vaut l'année suivante (1955) une nomination au British Academy Film Award du meilleur acteur.

À la télévision, il collabore à plusieurs téléfilms en 1938 et 1939, avant de participer régulièrement, entre 1956 et 1997, à d'autres téléfilms, ainsi qu'à des séries telles que "La chute des aigles" en 1974 dans laquelle il interprète le Kaiser Guillaume Ier d'Allemagne.

Maurice Denham, tout au long de sa carrière, joue également au théâtre (où il débute en 1934), à Londres notamment.

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Sydney Box
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Freddie Young
(7 films)
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Muriel Box
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Marianne Stone
Marianne Stone
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Maurice Denham (100 films)

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Actor

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, 1h
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors David Suchet, Martin Jarvis, Miriam Margolyes, Alan Rothwell, Maurice Denham, John Woodvine
Roles (voice)
Rating84% 4.203154.203154.203154.203154.20315
A couple had three sons, and the youngest was a fool. One day, the Tsar declared that whoever made him a ship that could sail through the air would marry his daughter. The older two set out, with everything their parents could give them; then the youngest set out as well, despite their ridicule and being given less fine food. He met a little man and, when the man asked to share, he hesitated only because it was not fit. But when he opened it, the food had become fine.
Tears in the Rain, 1h40
Directed by Don Sharp
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sharon Stone, Christopher Cazenove, Leigh Lawson, Maurice Denham, Anna Massey, Stephanie Cole
Roles Fordingbridge
Rating58% 2.901862.901862.901862.901862.90186
Jessie Cantrell's dying wish is that her daughter, Casey, personally take a letter to Lord Richard Bredon who lives in the UK. Though confused by this turn of events, Casey nonetheless sets off from her home in America to fulfill this last request. After a failed attempt to find him at his country residence, she falls in with Lord Bredon's son, Michael. At first the younger Bredon is suspicious of Casey's motives but soon the two of them find themselves in the midst of a deep and powerful connection that they both realize is love at first sight.
84 Charing Cross Road, 1h40
Directed by David Hugh Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl, Eleanor David
Roles George Martin
Rating73% 3.696573.696573.696573.696573.69657
In 1949, Helene Hanff is in search of obscure classics and British literature titles that she has been unable to find in New York City. She notices an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature placed by antiquarian booksellers Marks & Co, located at the titular address in London. She contacts the shop, where chief buyer and manager Frank Doel fulfills her requests. A long-distance friendship develops over time between the two and between Hanff and other staff members, as well, including birthday gifts, holiday packages, and food parcels to compensate for post–World War II food shortages in Britain. Their correspondence includes discussions about topics as diverse as the sermons of John Donne, how to make Yorkshire Pudding, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the coronation of Elizabeth II.
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington, 1h50
Directed by Martyn Friend
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Joan Hickson, Juliette Mole, John Hannah, Robert East, David Horovitch, Todd Boyce
Roles Luther Crackenthorpe
Rating75% 3.7936753.7936753.7936753.7936753.793675
Elspeth McGillicuddy rejoint son amie Miss Marple par le train de 16 h 50. Elle est réveillée par le dépassement du train omnibus. Par la fenêtre de son compartiment, elle voit un homme de dos en train d'étrangler une femme. Miss Marple et elle se rendent le lendemain à la police, mais elles reçoivent un accueil froid. Aucun cadavre n'est retrouvé. Refaisant le trajet en train, elles sont convaincues que le crime est lié au manoir isolé de Luther Crackenthorpe qu'elles aperçoivent du train. Miss Marple persuade une amie de son neveu, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, de s'y faire embaucher comme cuisinière. Celle-ci ne tarde pas à découvrir un cadavre dans les dépendances du manoir.
The Chain
The Chain (1984)
, 1h40
Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Denis Lawson, Phyllis Logan, Maurice Denham, Nigel Hawthorne, David Troughton, Anna Massey
Roles Grandpa
Rating68% 3.437093.437093.437093.437093.43709
The Chain tells the story of seven households that comprise a circular property chain, and various moving company employees who are tasked with assisting each household in their move. It follows the trials and tribulations, from trivial to profound, each household and mover (who are each guilty of one of the seven deadly sins) endures during the moving process.
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Directed by Waris Hussein
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham, Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Marius Goring, Nigel Hawthorne
Roles Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
Rating75% 3.7820253.7820253.7820253.7820253.782025
Julia
Julia (1977)
, 1h58
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell
Roles Undertaker
Rating70% 3.5461053.5461053.5461053.5461053.546105
The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical student/physician Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian (Jane Fonda), a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) at a beachhouse.
Shout at the Devil, 2h4
Directed by John Glen, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Ian Holm, Barbara Parkins, Reinhard Kolldehoff, George Coulouris
Roles Mr. Smythe
Rating60% 3.0499553.0499553.0499553.0499553.049955
Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), a hard-drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa. On hearing news that the American has returned, Herman Fleischer, the local German Commander of the Southern Provinces, relentlessly hunts O'Flynn with his Schutztruppen.
Luther
Luther (1974)
, 1h51
Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on plays
Actors Stacy Keach, Julian Glover, Maurice Denham, Judi Dench, Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith
Roles Johann von Staupitz Vicar General
Rating64% 3.23983.23983.23983.23983.2398
The time span covered by the film is 1506–1526: from Luther's completion of his novitiate in the Order of Eremites of St. Augustine in Erfurt to a time just after the birth of his first son Hans (b. June 7, 1526). It is narrated by Julian Glover, who portrays a young knight in the tradition of Ulrich von Hutten and Franz von Sickingen. He takes Luther to task for failing to complete his "revolution" by supporting the peasants in their uprising: "You could have done it, Martin." Luther is confronted in the course of the film six other times, giving him the opportunity to defend himself in his own words. The metaphor of constipation and flatulence is employed to indicate Luther's progression from insecurity to confidence in life.
The Day of the Jackal, 2h23
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Andrew Marton, Alain Bonnot
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Assassinat, Spy films, La provence, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Terence Alexander, Derek Jacobi, Alan Badel
Roles General Colbert
Rating77% 3.8979153.8979153.8979153.8979153.897915
In the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on 22 August 1962, an assassination attempt is made on the President of France General Charles de Gaulle by the militant French underground organisation OAS in anger over the French government granting independence to Algeria. As the president's motorcade passes, de Gaulle's unarmoured Citroën DS car is raked with machine gun fire, but the entire entourage escapes without injury. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-Thiry and several other members of the plot are captured and Bastien-Thiry is executed.
Nicholas and Alexandra, 3h9
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about royalty
Actors Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning
Roles Kokovtsov
Rating71% 3.596743.596743.596743.596743.59674
The story begins with the birth of Tsarevich Alexei on 12 August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) is warned by the Prime Minister Count Witte (Laurence Olivier) and his uncle Grand Duke Nicholas (Harry Andrews) that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They tell him the Russian people want representative government, health care, voting and workers' rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine) and Leon Trotsky (Brian Cox) have formed.
Sunday Bloody Sunday, 1h50
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Murray Head, Glenda Jackson, Nike Arrighi, Peter Finch, Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Britton
Roles Mr. Greville
Rating69% 3.496263.496263.496263.496263.49626
A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a young woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both involved in a love triangle with contemporary sculptor Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the other but they know one another through common friends. Despite this, they are willing to put up with the situation through fear of losing Elkin, who switches freely between them.
Countess Dracula, 1h33
Directed by Peter Sasdy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Serial killer films, Vampires in film
Actors Ingrid Pitt, Lesley-Anne Down, Maurice Denham, Nigel Green, Peter Jeffrey, Leon Lissek
Roles Master Fabio
Rating58% 2.9493852.9493852.9493852.9493852.949385
In 17th-century Hungary, recently widowed Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy discovers that her youthful appearance and libido can be temporarily restored if she bathes in the blood of young women. She enlists her steward and lover, Captain Dobi, to help with the kidnap and murder of several local girls, whilst having another sexual affair with young Lt. Imre Toth. As a cover for her crimes while in her rejuvenated state, she takes the identity of her own daughter; but castle historian Fabio grows suspicious. Eventually she kills a prostitute called Ziza and it doesn't help, Dobi finds Fabio who has a chapter about blood sacrifices and tells Elisabeth the truth in return for being allowed to live, he says only a virgin sacrifice will work. She then kills more virgins. Fabio tries to tell Toth the truth about his lover, but Dobi kills him before he can. He then shows Toth Elisabeth to jade him away from her. Elisabeth forces Toth into marrying her but her daughter Ilona arrives home, Elisabeth grows old again and tries to kill her daughter but kills Toth instead. Elisabeth, Dobi, and her maid are sentenced to death for their crimes and are last seen awaiting the hangman in their cell. In the last scene a peasant curses her as "devil woman" and "Countess Dracula".