Denis Quilley
Born: 1927-12-26 in Islington, London, England, UK
Died: 2003-10-05
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1996
- Dennis the Menace and Gnasher as Slasher Brown (voice)
- Noel's Telly Years
1994
- The Marriage of Figaro as Bartolo
- Sparrow as Baron Cesaro
1992
- A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia as Lord Curzon
1991
- Mister Johnson as Bulteen
1989
- A Wanted Man as DCI Burrows
- The Shell Seekers as Cosmo
1987
- The Interrogation of John as Insp. Charteris
1986
- Foreign Body as Prime Minister
1985
- A.D. as Peter
- King David as Prophet Samuel
- Murder of a Moderate Man
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Dr Leon Sterndale
- Memed My Hawk as Rejeb
- Magasinet Special: Chess 1984 as Self
1983
- Number 10 as William Ewart Gladstone
- Privates on Parade as Acting Captain Terri Dennis
- Orpheus in the Underworld as Jupiter / Napoleon III
1982
- Evil Under the Sun as Kenneth Marshall
- The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Cap. Kenneth Marshall
- A Walk in the Dark as Carter
1981
- Masada as General Marcus Quadratus
1980
- The Crucible as Reverend Samuel Parris
- Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical as Self/Sweeney Todd
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Captain Waterhouse
1976
- Clayhanger as George Cannon
1975
- In This House of Brede as Sir Richard
1974
- Churchill's People as King Charles II
- Murder on the Orient Express as Foscarelli
- The Black Windmill as Bateson
1973
- Long Day's Journey Into Night as James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
1970
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Weston
1967
1966
- Iolanthe as Strephon
1965
- The Man in Room 17 as Huston
- Life at the Top as Ben
- Undermind
- The Gong Game as Bob
1964
- Story Parade as Mike Weller
1963
- Festival as Knight/Tempter
- The Desperate People as Larry Martin
- The Swindler as Dick Sothers
1961
1959
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Dick Sothers
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as John Richard Everitt
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Cosmo