Michael Denison

Michael Denison

Birth : 1915-11-01, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England

Death : 1998-07-22

History

John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison CBE (1 November 1915 – 22 July 1998) was a noted English actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Denison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Michael Denison

Movies

Shadowlands
Harry Harrington
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
The Rocking Horse Winner
Race Commentator
In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks a joke about "filthy lucker", he becomes obsessed with finding luck, so that his family will have the money they need. His luck at the race track begins to improve, but the cost may be higher than anyone knows. Nominated for a BAFTA award in 1983.
Faces in the Dark
David Merton
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
The Friendly Inn
Directed by Clare Ash.
The Truth About Women
Rollo
Baffled and at a loss to understand the mentality of Diana, his wife, Anthony makes a frantic visit to the home of her parents to discover that she is staying with them.
Contraband Spain
British Agent Ricky Metcalfe
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
There Was a Young Lady
David Walsh
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
Tall Headlines
Philip Rackham
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Angels One Five
Squadron Leader Peter Moon
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
The Magic Box
Reporter
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
The Franchise Affair
Robert Blair
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
Landfall
Rick
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
The Glass Mountain
Richard Wilder
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
The Blind Goddess
Derek Waterhouse
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
My Brother Jonathan
Jonathan Dakers
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Hungry Hill
Henry Brodrick
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.