Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham

Date of Birth: 23 Dec 1909

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 50 (Actor)

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    84 Charing Cross Road
    True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
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    Night of the Demon
    Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader... (imdb)
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    Oliver Twist
    Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London... (imdb)
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him. (imdb)
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    Countess Dracula
    In medieval Europe aging Countess Elisabeth rules harshly with the help of lover Captain Dobi. Finding that washing in the blood of young girls makes her young again she gets Dobi to start abducting likely candidates. The Countess - pretending to be her own daughter - starts dallying with a younger man, much to Dobi's annoyance... (imdb)
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    Barnacle Bill
    Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors...but is all too susceptible to seasickness. After the war, he buys himself a nautical command on shore; a decrepit amusement pier at the British resort town Sandcastle-on-Sea, whose prim town council has outlawed arcade games as a form of gambling! (imdb)
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    Sink the Bismarck!
    Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled. (imdb)
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    The Million Pound Note
    An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him as if he is a King and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves. (imdb)
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    Our Man in Havana
    Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His daughter Milly, 17, spends a lot of money, so he accepts a job with the Intelligence Service. As he has nothing to report, he invents facts, pretends to recruit agents and to discover secret constructions... Of course, one day all will become much harder... (imdb)
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    Animal Farm
    Britain's first animated feature, which, despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire on Stalinism, with the animals taking over their farm by means of a revolutionary coup, but then discovering that although all animals are supposed to be equal, some are more equal than others... (imdb)
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    The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
    Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends. (imdb)
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    Two Way Stretch
    Peter Sellers has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days sentence left, and the perfect alibi - what could possibly go wrong ? (imdb)
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    The Purple Plain
    Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised passenger. How will they make it to safety? (amazon.co.uk)
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    The Nanny
    Bette Davis is an English nanny whose charge is 10-year-old Joey (William Dix), just released from a home for disturbed children where he'd spent two years undergoing treatment for drowning his little sister in the bath. Shortly after his arrival home, suspicion arouses again when his mother (Wendy Craig) is poisoned. But Joey continues to insist Nanny is responsible, just as she was with the death of his little sister, with only a neighboring friend (Pamela Franklin) believing the young boy. (imdb)
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    Paranoiac
    Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent by Keith Kossett, son of the attorney for the family estate, who has been dipping into the family trust fund.
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    Damn the Defiant!
    Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases. (imdb)
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    23 Paces to Baker Street
    Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancé, attempt to track down the crooks. (imdb)
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    Night Caller from Outer Space
    The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth. (imdb)
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    Malta Story
    In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are besieged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements. (imdb)
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    Terror on a Train
    When a terrorist plants a bomb on board a train, the police call in an army bomb disposal expert to find, and dismantle it, but after it has been made safe, he has another shock in store. (imdb)
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    The Alphabet Murders
    The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. The first victim is A.A. the second B.B. and so on. Poirot is assisted in his investigations by Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp. (imdb)
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    Doctor at Sea
    A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around. (imdb)
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    Midas Run
    A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted. (imdb)
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    Hysteria
    An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder. (imdb)
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    The End of the River
    A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. The story of how this happened and how he got into trouble is told in flashback. (imdb)
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    The Spider and the Fly
    A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I. (imdb)
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    The Greengage Summer
    The film tells the sensible story of a British girl who awakes from childhood on vacations in France finding life and love. (imdb)
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    It\
    Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. (imdb)
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    Schalcken the Painter
    Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late? (imdb)
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    From a Far Country
    The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appear all the other important stations of the life of the Pope. (imdb)
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    Easy Money
    A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. (imdb)
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    Mr. Love
    An elderly mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him. (imdb)
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    Energetically Yours
    Tracing the story of primitive man's discovery of energy. (imdb)
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    The Very Edge
    A young married woman finds herself being stalked by a sinister psychopath.
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    Recluse
    Recluse (1979) - Short Film
    This film is a reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse. Had one of the brothers killed the other two and then himself? (imdb)
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    The Captain\
    A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he becomes the target for all the comely unattached women on board. (imdb)
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    Simon and Laura
    In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the show. Actors they may be, but happily married they most surely are not. (imdb)
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    Talking to a Stranger
    Talking to a Stranger (1966) - TV Mini-Series
    A quartet of plays reveals a weekend as seen through the eyes of four different people. (imdb)
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    Great Performances
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    Invasion Quartet
    A farcical wartime romp about Godfrey Pringle, a member of a motley gang of British servicemen attempting to sneak into occupied France during World War II to destroy an enemy cannon. They encounter both German soldiers and French resistance members along their way.
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    The Great Highway
    The history of British Railways from George Stephenson's early inventions in 1825 to the present day.
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    They Made Me a Fugitive
    Gang member is made a patsy, escapes from prison and seeks revenge on those who sent him up the river.
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    The Upturned Glass
    A prominent neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how, after the affair was over, the woman one day fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer--but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer. (imdb)
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    Screen Two
    Screen Two (1985) - TV Series
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    Poet\
    A struggling young poet in love manages a country inn, and thwarts a kidnapping attempt.
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    The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
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    Traveller\
    A group of impecunious Brits are stranded in a Stockholm hotel.
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    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who (1963) - TV Series
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    Theatre 625
    Theatre 625 (1964) - TV Series
    Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
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    Attack on the Iron Coast
    Canadian commandos take on a Nazi post on the coast of France. (TCM.com)
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