Maurice Denham (born as William Maurice Denham on December 23, 1909 at Beckenham, Kent; died July 24, 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career. December 23 is the 357th day of the year (358th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Beckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. ... The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... A character actor is an actor, especially in motion pictures, who predominantly performs in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...

Originally trained as an elevator engineer, Denham eventually became an actor in 1934 and appeared in live television broadcasts as early as 1938. He would continue to perform in that medium until 1997.

He first made his name in radio series such as ITMA and Much Binding in the Marsh, and later provided all the voices for the 1955 animated version of Animal Farm. His other film credits include Night of the Demon (1957), Two-Way Stretch (1960), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and 84 Charing Cross Road (1986). Its That Man Again or more commonly ITMA was a 1940s BBC radio comedy programme. ... Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comical BBC radio show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. ... Animal Farm is a 1954 British animated feature based on the popular book by George Orwell. ... Night Of The Demon is a 1980 low-budget horror movie directed by James C. Wasson and written by Mike Williams, presenting a gory and occasionally quite unsettling take on the Bigfoot legend. ... Two-Way Stretch is a British comedy film of 1960, about a group of prisoners who plan to break out of jail, commit a robbery, and then break back into jail again, thus giving them the perfect alibi - that they were behind bars when the robbery occurred. ... Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white war film based on the book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester, and recounts the true story of the Royal Navys attempts to find and sink the famous German battleship during World War II. It... 1963 Replica of the Bristol Boxkite, now hanging in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. ... The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 film set in the early 1960s based on a novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. ... 84, Charing Cross Road is the title of a book by Helene Hanff, published in 1970 about the long correspondence (1949-1969) between Hanff, a resident of New York City, and Frank Doel of the Marks & Co. ...

Among his television appearances were Talking to a Stranger (1967), The Lotus Eaters (1972-3), All Passion Spent with Dame Wendy Hiller (1986), Inspector Morse (1991) and the Sherlock Holmes story The Last Vampyre (1993). Talking to a Stranger is a British television drama, produced by the BBC and made up of four separate plays telling the story of one weekend from the viewpoints of four different members of the same family. ... The Lotus Eaters debut was promoted on the front cover of the Radio Times. ... Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress. ... Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaption (with Kevin Whately as Lewis (right)). Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, although only the first two series bore that title on screen. ...

He made a guest appearance in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who in the 1984 serial The Twin Dilemma, the first story to star Colin Baker in the title role as the Sixth Doctor. He later appeared in the Doctor Who radio serial The Paradise of Death in 1993 alongside Jon Pertwee. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... The Twin Dilemma is is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 22 to March 30, 1984, the first to star Colin Baker in the title role. ... For the Wales international football player see Colin Baker (Welsh footballer) Colin Baker (born London, June 8, 1943) is an English actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986. ... The Sixth Doctor is the name given to the sixth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Paradise of Death is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on BBC Radio 5 from 27 August to 24 September 1993. ... John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. ...

As The Honourable Mr Justice Stephen Rawley in the BBC prison comedy Porridge, he ends up in the same cell with Fletcher, whom he sentenced. The Honourable Mr Justice Stephen Rawley, played by Maurice Denham, is featured in two episodes of the television series Porridge: Poetic Justice and Rough Justice. He had been charged with fraud and was waiting for his appeal to come through. ... Porridge was a British BBC television sitcom (1974–1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale. ...

In further radio work, he starred in a BBC Radio 4 version of the Oldest Member, based on stories by P. G. Wodehouse, from 1994 to 1999, and also as Rumpole in Rumpole: The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack. BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The Oldest Member is a fictional character from the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse. ... Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: ) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by British writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients. ...

External links

• Maurice Denham at the Internet Movie Database

• Maurice Denham's stage performances as listed in Theatre Collection archive, University of Bristol