Denis Quilley
ActingAlso Known As
Denis Clifford Quilley, Денис Куилли
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.
Movies
(25 total)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Foscarelli
Evil Under the Sun
as Kenneth Marshall
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Weston
The Black Windmill
as Bateson
King David
as Prophet Samuel
Mister Johnson
as Bulteen
Sparrow
as Baron Cesaro
Privates on Parade
as Acting Captain Terri Dennis
Life at the Top
as Ben
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Lord Curzon
The Shell Seekers
as Cosmo
Foreign Body
as Prime Minister
In This House of Brede
as Sir Richard
Memed My Hawk
as Rejeb
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Cap. Kenneth Marshall
Orpheus in the Underworld
as Jupiter / Napoleon III
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
as Self/Sweeney Todd
The Interrogation of John
as Insp. Charteris
TV Shows
(24 total)
Sherlock Holmes
as Dr Leon Sterndale
Masada
as General Marcus Quadratus
Tales of the Unexpected
as Captain Waterhouse
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Slasher Brown (voice)
A.D.
as Peter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cosmo
Dixon of Dock Green
as John Richard Everitt
The Man in Room 17
as Huston
The Desperate People
as Larry Martin
Clayhanger
as George Cannon
Number 10
as William Ewart Gladstone
Churchill's People
as King Charles II
The Marriage of Figaro
as Bartolo
A Wanted Man
as D.C.I. Burrows