Paul Daneman
Born: 1925-10-29 in London, England, UK
Died: 2001-04-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1991
- G.B.H. as Mervyn Sloan
- Thatcher: The Final Days as Douglas Hurd
1989
- Blore M.P. as Prime Minister
1988
- Tears in the Rain as Lord Richard Bredon
1987
- Hold the Dream as David Amory
- Roman Holiday as King
1986
- Theban Plays: Antigone as Chorus
- The Little Match Girl as Mr. Fairbrother
1983
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Duke of Milan
1982
- Tishoo as Professor Frank Merrick
1980
- Jessie as Matthews
1978
- Blake's 7 as Dr. Bellfriar
1977
- The Professionals as Dawson
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Lord Chief Justice
1972
- The Adventurer as Stopford
- Spy Trap as Commander Paul Ryan
1970
- Play for Today as Frank
1969
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Czar Nicholas II
1968
- Journey to the Unknown as Stuart Crosbie
- Never A Cross Word
- Infidelity Took Place as Bill
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Alec
- Not in Front of the Children as Henry Corner
- How I Won the War as Skipper
1966
- Too Many Cooks as Dr. Andrew Cook
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Henry Trebell
- Out of the Unknown as Dr. Andrew Cook
1964
- Zulu as Sgt. Maxfield
1962
- The Saint as Dr. Ormsby
- Corrigan Blake
- Locker Sixty-Nine as Frank Griffiths
1961
- The Fourth Square as Henry Adams
- Clue of the New Pin as Rex Lander
1960
- Danger Man as Dr. Bakalter
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Mark Lambert
- An Age of Kings as Richard
- Persuasion as Captain Frederick Wentworth
- Emma as George Knightley
1958
- Our Mutual Friend as John Harmon/'John Rokesmith'
1957
- Time Without Pity as Brian Stanford
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Morris Townsend
- Peril for the Guy as Professor Picton
1955
- Fun at St. Fanny's as Fudge - The Porter