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 56
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
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Festival
1963
Story Parade
1964
Clayhanger
1976
A.D.
1985
Masada
1981
Evil Under the Sun
1982
The Man in Room 17
1965
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1986
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Undermind
1965
Number 10
1983
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
King David
1985
Armchair Theatre
1956
Timeslip
1970
Contrabandits
1967
Tonight at 8.30
1991
You're On Your Own
1975
Noel's Telly Years
1996
The Desperate People
1963
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical
1980
Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
1999
The Marriage of Figaro
1994
The Black Windmill
1974
Saturday Night Thriller
1982
Murder of a Moderate Man
1985
In This House of Brede
1975
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992
A Wanted Man
1989
Memed My Hawk
1984
Life at the Top
1965
Mister Johnson
1991
Sparrow
1994
The Shell Seekers
1989
Foreign Body
1986
Privates on Parade
1983
The Interrogation of John
1987
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1973
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982
Magasinet Special: Chess 1984
1984
The Crucible
1980
Orpheus in the Underworld
1983
The Gong Game
1965
The Swindler
1963
A Walk in the Dark
1982
Iolanthe
1966