Maurice Denham

1909-2002

Biography: life and films

Maurice Denham was an English actor. He was born in Beckenham, Kent, England on 23rd December 1909 and died in Northwood, London, England on 24th July 2002, aged 92.

His best films as an actor include Charles Frend's comedy Barnacle Bill (1957), Jacques Tourneur's thriller Night of the Demon (1957), Freddie Francis's Paranoiac (1963), John Gilling's The Night Caller (1965) and Roy Battersby's Mr. Love (1985).

Maurice Denham appeared in 89 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ken Annakin (6 films), Ralph Thomas (5), Lewis Gilbert (4), Freddie Francis (3), Bernard Knowles (3), Seth Holt (2), Ronald Neame (2), Muriel Box (2), Guy Green (2), Fred Zinnemann (2), Frank Launder (2) and Anthony Asquith (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (54 films), comedy (20), Thriller (16), romance (9), comedy-romance (7), comedy-drama (7), War (7), Horror (6), history (5), crime-thriller (5), Biography (3), comedy-thriller (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Maurice Denham over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

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Captain Boycott (1947) [a]

Fame Is the Spur (1947) [a]

Holiday Camp (1947) [a]

Jassy (1947) [a]

Take My Life (1947) [a]

The End of the River (1947) [a]

The Man Within (1947) [a]

The Upturned Glass (1947) [a]

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) [a]

Blanche Fury (1948) [a]

Daybreak (1948) [a]

Easy Money (1948) [a]

Escape (1948) [a]

Here Come the Huggetts (1948) [a]

London Belongs to Me (1948) [a]

Look Before You Love (1948) [a]

Miranda (1948) [a]

My Brother's Keeper (1948) [a]

Oliver Twist (1948) [a]

The Blind Goddess (1948) [a]

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) [a]

Don't Ever Leave Me (1949) [a]

It's Not Cricket (1949) [a]

Landfall (1949) [a]

Madness of the Heart (1949) [a]

Once Upon a Dream (1949) [a]

Poet's Pub (1949) [a]

The Blue Lagoon (1949) [a]

The Spider and the Fly (1949) [a]

Traveller's Joy (1949) [a]

No Highway (1951) [a]

Malta Story (1953) [a]

Street Corner (1953) [a]

The Million Pound Note (1953) [a]

The Net (1953) [a]

Time Bomb (1953) [a]

Animal Farm (1954) [a]

Eight O'Clock Walk (1954) [a]

The Purple Plain (1954) [a]

Carrington V.C. (1955) [a]

Doctor at Sea (1955) [a]

Simon and Laura (1955) [a]

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) [a]

Checkpoint (1956) [a]

The Spanish Gardener (1956) [a]

Barnacle Bill (1957) [a]

Night of the Demon (1957) [a]

Our Man in Havana (1959) [a]

The Captain's Table (1959) [a]

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) [a]

Two Way Stretch (1960) [a]

Invasion Quartet (1961) [a]

The Greengage Summer (1961) [a]

The Mark (1961) [a]

H.M.S. Defiant (1962) [a]

The Very Edge (1962) [a]

Paranoiac (1963) [a]

The 7th Dawn (1964) [a]

Hysteria (1965) [a]

Operation Crossbow (1965) [a]

The Alphabet Murders (1965) [a]

The Nanny (1965) [a]

The Night Caller (1965) [a]

The Uncle (1965) [a]

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) [a]

Caccia alla volpe (1966) [a]

Danger Route (1967) [a]

The Long Duel (1967) [a]

Torture Garden (1967) [a]

Attack on the Iron Coast (1968) [a]

Negatives (1968) [a]

A Touch of Love (1969) [a]

Midas Run (1969) [a]

Some Girls Do (1969) [a]

The Best House in London (1969) [a]

The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) [a]

Countess Dracula (1971) [a]

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) [a]

Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) [a]

Luther (1973) [a]

The Day of the Jackal (1973) [a]

Shout at the Devil (1976) [a]

Julia (1977) [a]

From a Far Country (1981) [a]

The Chain (1984) [a]

Mr. Love (1985) [a]

84 Charing Cross Road (1987) [a]

El último viaje de Robert Rylands (1996) [a]



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