Denis Quilley
Acting • Born 1927-12-26 – Died 2003-10-05
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
49 credits
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Foscarelli
Evil Under the Sun
Movie • 1982
Kenneth Marshall
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Movie • 1982
Self / Cap. Kenneth Marshall
King David
Movie • 1985
Prophet Samuel
Sparrow
Movie • 1994
Baron Cesaro
In This House of Brede
Movie • 1975
Sir Richard
Foreign Body
Movie • 1986
Prime Minister
Mister Johnson
Movie • 1991
Bulteen
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Movie • 1992
Lord Curzon
The Shell Seekers
Movie • 1989
Cosmo
Memed My Hawk
Movie • 1984
Rejeb
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Movie • 1973
James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
The Black Windmill
Movie • 1974
Bateson
Magasinet Special: Chess 1984
Movie • 1984
Self
The Interrogation of John
Movie • 1987
Insp. Charteris
The Gong Game
Movie • 1965
Bob
Orpheus in the Underworld
Movie • 1983
Jupiter / Napoleon III
Privates on Parade
Movie • 1983
Acting Captain Terri Dennis
The Crucible
Movie • 1980
Reverend Samuel Parris
Life at the Top
Movie • 1965
Ben
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
Movie • 1980
Self/Sweeney Todd
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie • 1969
Weston
A Walk in the Dark
Movie • 1982
Carter
The Swindler
Movie • 1963
Dick Sothers
Iolanthe
Movie • 1966
Strephon
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Captain Waterhouse
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
John Richard Everitt
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Cosmo
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Timeslip
TV • 1970
Murder of a Moderate Man
TV • 1985
Contrabandits
TV • 1967
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
TV • 1999
Noel's Telly Years
TV • 1996
Undermind
TV • 1965
The Marriage of Figaro
TV • 1994
Bartolo
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
TV • 1996
Slasher Brown (voice)
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Dr Leon Sterndale
A.D.
TV • 1985
Peter
The Man in Room 17
TV • 1965
Huston
The Desperate People
TV • 1963
Larry Martin
A Wanted Man
TV • 1989
D.C.I. Burrows
Festival
TV • 1963
Knight/Tempter
Story Parade
TV • 1964
Mike Weller
Clayhanger
TV • 1976
George Cannon
Masada
TV • 1981
General Marcus Quadratus
Number 10
TV • 1983
William Ewart Gladstone
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
King Charles II