Biography
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Robert Rylands' Last Journey
1996
as Hume
Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses th...

Bed
1995
as Man
Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.

The Last Vampyre
1993
as Augustus Merridew
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.

Memento Mori
1992
as Guy Leet
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
Nona
1991
as Don Fransciso
British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly woman who is causing a drain on the resources of h...

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
as (voice)
Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's d...

Seeing in the Dark
1989
as Old Man
Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship ...

The Dog It Was That Died
1989
as Vicar
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing...

Tears in the Rain
1988
as Fordingbridge
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrive...

The Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987
as Klaus Barbie
Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1987
as Luther Crackenthorpe
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as George Martin
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order...

All Passion Spent
1986
as Gervase Bucktrout
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged ...

Mr. Love
1986
as Theo
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
Love Song
1985
as Sir William Hatchard
The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University.

Monsignor Quixote
1985
as Senor Diego
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r...

The Hope and the Glory
1984
as Joe
Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but warm, friendship with Joe, an old man who has a r...

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1984
as Edgeworth
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his ...

The Chain
1984
as Grandpa
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

Martin Luther, Heretic
1983
as Father Staupitz
Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.

From a Far Country
1981
as Sapieha
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy,...

Recluse
1981
A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkl...
The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
1980
as Tom Falconer
Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.
The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
1980
as Tom Falconer
Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.
The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
1980
as Tom Falconer
The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school t...

Schalcken the Painter
1979
as Gerrit Dou
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
as Cosmo Lang - Archbishop of Canterbury
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the p...

Julia
1977
as Undertaker
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Shout at the Devil
1976
as Mr. Smythe
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battl...

Love's Labour's Lost
1975
as Don Adriano de Armando
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...
Go as You Please in Britain
1975
Traces the development of the Freightliner services and introduces customers with differing freight problems, who describe the advantages the system h...

Luther
1974
as Johann von Staupitz Vicar General
A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

The Day of the Jackal
1973
as General Colbert
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Kokovtsov
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
as Mr. Greville
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately...

Countess Dracula
1971
as Master Fabio
Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young ag...

The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970
as The Rector
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young E...

A Touch of Love
1969
as Doctor Prothero
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair w...

Midas Run
1969
as Charles Crittenden
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Julius Caesar
1969
as Julius Caesar
The play by William Shakespeare.

Some Girls Do
1969
as Mr. Mortimer
A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent ...

The Best House in London
1969
as Editor, The Times
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

Negatives
1968
as The Father
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.

Torture Garden
1967
as Uncle Roger (segment 1 "Enoch")
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises t...

Danger Route
1967
as Peter Ravenspur
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new ass...

The Long Duel
1967
as Governor
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his offi...

A Slight Ache
1967
as Edward
In the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast, comfortably disputing as to whether the honeysuckle or...

After the Fox
1966
as Chief of Interpol
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

The Night Caller
1965
as Dr. Morley
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst th...

The Alphabet Murders
1965
as Japp
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

The Heroes of Telemark
1965
as Doctor
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy w...

The Nanny
1965
as Dr. Beamaster
Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of hi...

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
as Trawler Skipper
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the Engl...

The Uncle
1965
as Mr. Ream
Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his fa...

Operation Crossbow
1965
as RAF Officer
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...

Hysteria
1965
as Hemmings
An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a n...

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
1965
as Mr. Fielding
When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluc...

The 7th Dawn
1964
as Tarlton
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

Downfall
1964
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
Long Past Glory
1963
as Charles
Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined ...

The Very Edge
1963
as Crawford
Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her...

Paranoiac
1963
as John Kossett
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter inter...

The Set Up
1963
as Theo Gaunt
Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a c...

The King's Breakfast
1963
as The King
A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.

H.M.S. Defiant
1962
as Mr. Goss (Ship's Surgeon)
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa...

Invasion Quartet
1961
This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied ...

The Greengage Summer
1961
as Mr. Bullock
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

The Mark
1961
as Arnold Cartwright
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
For Better, For Worse
1961
Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship with the gogglebox.

Two-Way Stretch
1960
as The Governor
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perf...

Sink the Bismarck!
1960
as Commander Richards
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...

Our Man in Havana
1960
as Admiral
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t ve...

Ali and the Camel
1960
Eight part serial. When Ali's father, a diver, has to go to hospital, Ali is offered money by a Professor involved in a jewel robbery. A camel, who ta...

The Captain's Table
1959
as Major Broster
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take...

Piping Hot
1959
as Narrator
An animated film about the history and use of hot water.
I Can Destroy the Sun
1958
as Dr. Lunn
Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What ca...

A Desperate Case
1958
as Narrator (voice)
A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the railways...

Barnacle Bill
1957
as Crowley
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

Night of the Demon
1957
as Professor Henry Harrington
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was ki...

Checkpoint
1956
as Ted Thornhill
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, wh...

The Spanish Gardener
1956
as Pedro (voice) (uncredited)
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harri...

The History of the Cinema
1956
as Narrator
A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema.

23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Inspector Grovening
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child...

Simon and Laura
1955
as Wilson
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

Doctor at Sea
1955
as Easter
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape t...

Animal Farm
1954
as All animals (voice)
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and t...

Carrington V.C.
1954
as Lt. Col. Reeve
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distingui...

The Purple Plain
1954
as Blore
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has...

Eight O'Clock Walk
1954
as Horace Clifford
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

The Million Pound Note
1954
as Jonathan Reid
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a ...

Malta Story
1953
as British Officer
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese gi...

Street Corner
1953
as Dawson
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

The Net
1953
as Prof. Carrington
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, ...

Time Bomb
1953
as Jim Warrilow
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, ...
Power to Fly
1953
as Narrator
A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.

No Highway in the Sky
1951
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies...

Traveller's Joy
1950
as Fowler
A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they ...
Scrapbook for 1933
1950
as (voice)
A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.

Madness of the Heart
1949
as Dr. Simon Blake
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

The Spider and the Fly
1949
as Colonel de la Roche
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe p...

Landfall
1949
as Wing Commander Hewitt
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to...

Don't Ever Leave Me
1949
as Mr. Knowles
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor...

Poet's Pub
1949
as PC Windle
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scot...

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
1949
as Bill Martin
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

It's Not Cricket
1949
as Otto Fisch
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettab...

The Blue Lagoon
1949
as Captain
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island...

Once Upon a Dream
1949
as Vicar
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant ...

Here Come the Huggetts
1948
as 1st Engineer
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' ...

London Belongs to Me
1948
as Jack Rufus
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot...

Quartet
1948
as Coroner (segment "The Alien Corn")
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

The Blind Goddess
1948
as Johnson
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Den...

My Brother's Keeper
1948
as Trent
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan ...

Oliver Twist
1948
as Chief of Police
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...

Daybreak
1948
as Inspector
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Miranda
1948
as Cockle Vendor
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.

Blanche Fury
1948
as Maj. Fraser
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marrie...

Easy Money
1948
as Detective-Inspector Kirby
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the co...

Look Before You Love
1948
as Fosser
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.

The End of the River
1947
as Defence Counsel
A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.

Fame Is the Spur
1947
as Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to ...

Captain Boycott
1947
as Lt. Col. Strickland
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boyco...

Jassy
1947
as Jim Stoner
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the ...

Holiday Camp
1947
as Camp Doctor
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend ...

They Made Me a Fugitive
1947
as Mr. Fenshaw
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

The Upturned Glass
1947
as Mobile Policeman
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the wo...

Take My Life
1947
as Defense Counsel
When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

The Man Within
1947
as Smuggler
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Many Waters
1938