Maurice Denham
Actor
Films to Rent
Blanche Fury (1948)
- Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough…
- Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
My Brother's Keeper (1948)
- Dir. Alfred Roome
Feat. Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson…
- Rickety chase film from Gainsborough Pictures with two prisoners chained together making a dash for freedom.
Purple Plain, The (1954)
- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee…
- Strong psychological drama, shot in lush Technicolor, with Peck as a shell–shocked pilot stuck with wounded comrades behind enemy lines in the…
Simon & Laura (Simon and Laura) (1955)
- Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Maurice Denham…
- Prescient satire with a bickering couple, on the brink of splitting up are given the opportunity to revitalise their acting careers by starring in a…
23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker…
- Genuine nail–biter with Van Johnson as a blind writer who has the misfortune to overhear a kidnapping plot, enlisting his two friends he sets…
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (1956-1974)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff, Charles Jarrott, Alan Cooke
Feat. Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Beckinsale…
- a British television anthology of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by ABC Weekend TV. Its…
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…
- Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
Sink the Bismarck (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith…
- A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck.
Conveying both the allied…
Long Duel, The (1967)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews…
- MIddling adventure yarn set in India under the British Raj. Idealistic policeman Trevor Howard is given orders to capture a rebellious Sultan dead or…
Some Girls Do (1969)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers…
- Return outing for Richard Johnson's 'Bulldog Drummond' pits the Bond–wannabe against a cabal of mini–skirted fembots and his…
Countess Dracula (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Lesley-Anne Down, Nigel Green…
- A moody late–Hammer Horror concerns the bloodthirsty deeds of Countess Bathory, she who liked to bathe in the blood of virgins to retain her…
Edward and Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft…
- Tasteful, but perceptive television series follows the scandalous romance between British monarch Edward VIII and American socialite (and divorcee)…
Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…