Denis Quilley
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.
As actor 57
The Avengers
1961
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
No Hiding Place
1959
ScreenPlay
1986
Dixon of Dock Green
1955
Churchill's People
1974
The Man in Room 17
1965
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Story Parade
1964
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
Masada
1981
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986
Festival
1963
Clayhanger
1976
Undermind
1965
A.D.
1985
Evil Under the Sun
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Number 10
1983
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
1999
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
You're On Your Own
1975
The Desperate People
1963
Contrabandits
1967
A Wanted Man
1989
Timeslip
1970
Noel's Telly Years
1996
King David
1985
The Black Windmill
1974
Tonight at 8.30
1991
The Marriage of Figaro
1994
Rich Tea and Sympathy
1991
Armchair Theatre
1956
Saturday Night Thriller
1982
The Interrogation of John
1987
Life at the Top
1965
Mister Johnson
1991
Privates on Parade
1983
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical
1980
Sparrow
1994
Murder of a Moderate Man
1985
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982
In This House of Brede
1975
Memed My Hawk
1984
The Crucible
1981
Foreign Body
1986
A Walk in the Dark
1982
The Shell Seekers
1989
Orpheus in the Underworld
1983
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1973
Magasinet Special: Chess 1984
1984
The Swindler
1963
The Gong Game
1965
Iolanthe
1966