Denis Quilley
Biography
Denis Clifford Quilley was an English actor. From a family with no theatrical connections, Quilley was determined from an early age to become an actor and was taken on by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in his teens. After a break for compulsory military service he began a West End career in 1950, succeeding Richard Burton in "The Lady's Not For Burning". In the 1950s he appeared in revue, musicals, operetta and on television as well as in classic and modern drama in the theatre.
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Acting History
1999
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
1996Dennis the Menace and Gnasher as Slasher Brown (voice)
1996Noel's Telly Years
1994The Marriage of Figaro as Bartolo
1994Sparrow as Baron Cesaro
1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Lord Curzon
1991Mister Johnson as Bulteen
1989The Shell Seekers as Cosmo
1989A Wanted Man as D.C.I. Burrows
1987The Interrogation of John as Insp. Charteris
1986Foreign Body as Prime Minister
1985Murder of a Moderate Man
1985A.D. as Peter
1985King David as Prophet Samuel
1984Magasinet Special: Chess 1984 as Self
1984Memed My Hawk as Rejeb
1984Sherlock Holmes as Dr Leon Sterndale
1983Orpheus in the Underworld as Jupiter / Napoleon III
1983Privates on Parade as Acting Captain Terri Dennis
1983Number 10 as William Ewart Gladstone
1982A Walk in the Dark as Carter
1982Evil Under the Sun as Kenneth Marshall
1982The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Cap. Kenneth Marshall
1981Masada as General Marcus Quadratus
1980Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical as Self/Sweeney Todd
1980The Crucible as Reverend Samuel Parris
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Captain Waterhouse
1976Clayhanger as George Cannon
1975In This House of Brede as Sir Richard
1974Churchill's People as King Charles II
1974Murder on the Orient Express as Foscarelli
1974The Black Windmill as Bateson
1973Long Day's Journey Into Night as James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
1970Timeslip
1969Anne of the Thousand Days as Weston
1967Contrabandits
1966Iolanthe as Strephon
1965Life at the Top as Ben
1965The Gong Game as Bob
1965The Man in Room 17 as Huston
1965Undermind
1964Story Parade as Mike Weller
1963The Swindler as Dick Sothers
1963Festival as Knight/Tempter
1963The Desperate People as Larry Martin
1961The Avengers
1959No Hiding Place
1955Dixon of Dock Green as John Richard Everitt
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cosmo