
Denis Quilley
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.
TV Shows(29)

Sir Bernard's Stately Homes
Noel's Telly Years

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Slasher Brown (voice)

The Marriage of Figaro
Bartolo

A Wanted Man
DCI Burrows

ScreenPlay
Det. Chief Insp. Burrows

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Dr Leon Sterndale
Murder of a Moderate Man

A.D.
Peter

Sherlock Holmes
Dr Leon Sterndale

Number 10
William Ewart Gladstone

Masada
General Marcus Quadratus

Tales of the Unexpected
Captain Waterhouse

Clayhanger
George Cannon

Churchill's People
King Charles II

Timeslip

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
Contrabandits

Undermind

The Man in Room 17
Huston