Michael DenisonFilmography

Born:: November 1, 1915 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Michael Denison only made 21 movies in the course of a 60-year acting career, but included among them are such classics as Anthony Asquith's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) and Richard Attenborough's acclaimed Shadowlands (1993). Across those 41 years, he aged from a rakishly handsome...Read More

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Shadowlands

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison, John Wood

Synopsis: This lavishly mounted adaptation of the play by William Nicholson tells the true story of the doomed love affair between novelist and noted Christian scholar C.S. Lewis and a Jewish-American poet. Anthony Hopkins stars as C.S. "Jack" Lewis, an Oxford professor and successful author of the Read More

1993
Dark River

Actors: Tom Bell, Kate Buffery, Sian Phillips, Freddie Jones, Ian McNeice

Synopsis: In this British drama, the sorts of Britons who live in colonial encampments outside of Britain tend to be the most conventional people imaginable, recreating a little bit of home (and not the most interesting bits) in whatever uncouth foreign place they have landed in. In this story, they are Read More

1990
Blood Money

Actors: Bernard Hepton, Michael Denison, Sarah Neville, Grant Warnock, Gary Whelan

1981
Faces in the Dark

Actors: John Gregson, Mai Zetterling, John Ireland, Tony Wright

Synopsis: Although there may be a few minor gaps here and there in the storyline, Faces in the Dark is a suspenseful drama by director David Eady. Richard Hammond (John Gregson) owns a factory, and on the very day his wife Christine (Mai Zetterling ) is coming to his office to tell him she wants a divorce Read More

1960
The Truth About Women

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Diane Cilento, Mai Zetterling, Eva Gabor

Synopsis: In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his wide-eyed son-in-law. Tavistock has come to the conclusion that women are a riddle wrapped in a mystery surrounded by an enigma, and his reminiscences bear this out. Among the Read More

1958
Contraband Spain

Actors: Richard Greene, Jose Nieto, John Warwick

Synopsis: England's Richard Greene and France's Anouk Aimee (here billed simply as Anouk) star in the fast-paced espionager Contraband Spain. Greene is cast as American federal agent Lee, who is dispatched to the French-Spanish border to break up a smuggling ring. Making things difficult for Lee is the fact Read More

1955
There Was a Young Lady

Synopsis: In this comedy, a diamond merchant's secretary gets fired by her new boss for being too efficient. She ends up kidnapped by a ring of jewel thieves. The clever hostage soon convinces the crook that she is with them and joins the gang. She then sneaks a note to her former boss and he comes to save Read More

1953
The Importance of Being Earnest

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Michael Denison, Dorothy Tutin, Miles Malleson, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Greenwood

Synopsis: Anthony Asquith's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's witty play of mistaken identities stars Michael Redgrave as rich bachelor Jack Worthing. Jack's friend is Algernon Moncrieft (Michael Denison), a poor bloke living on credit. Jack refers mysteriously to Algernon about his country retreat, which drives Read More

1952
Angels One Five

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Andrew Osborn, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq

Synopsis: "Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small (Jack Hawkins), who is taken out of commission after an accident. Despite the protests from his fellow flyboys, Tiger insists upon taking to the air again, thereby setting Read More

1952
The Frightened Bride

Actors: Andre Morell, Flora Robson, Jane Hylton, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family is executed for murder. The family does its best to kick over all the traces, moving to a different community under an assumed name and never speaking of their son. All of Read More

1952
The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

1951
The Franchise Affair

Actors: Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Set in a quiet British village, Franchise Affair details the ramifications of a malicious lie. Schoolgirl Ketty Kane (Ann Stephens) hopes to cover up her own misbehavior by claiming that two local women, Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), have kidnapped and abused Read More

1950
My Brother Jonathan

Actors: Hilda Bayley, Beatrice Campbell, Mary Clare, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the responsibility of supporting his mother and paying for his brother's education. He becomes a partner in a small practice and watches the woman he wanted to marry go off with his Read More

1949
The Glass Mountain

Actors: Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw

Synopsis: A composer discovers that the inspiration for his greatest work may come at the expense of his marriage in this romantic drama with music. Richard Wilder (Michael Dennison) was a pilot with the RAF during World War II and was shot down over the Dolomite Mountains of Italy during a mission. Read More

1949
Landfall

Actors: Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton, Charles Victor

Synopsis: Landfall takes place during the early portions of WWII. RAF pilot Rick (Michael Denison) is transferred to another squadron after sinking a British sub during a bombing raid. Disgraced, Rick has no one to turn to, save for sympathetic barmaid Mona (Patricia Plunkett). With her help, the pilot is Read More

1949
The Blind Goddess

Actors: Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Hugh Williams, Nora Swinburne

Synopsis: The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric Portman plays the private secretary to a celebrated public figure (Hugh Williams). Portman holds his boss in an esteem that borders on hero worship. But when his idol is brought into court, the Read More

1948
Hungry Hill

Actors: Eileen Crowe, Michael Denison, Michael Golden, Eileen Herlie, Shamus Locke

Synopsis: The misery caused by a long-term feud between two Irish families provides the framework in this drama based on a book by Daphne du Maurier. The saga begins in 1840 as the father of the Donovan clan rebels against the Brodrick family, the owners of the copper mine located on what was formerly Read More

1947
Tilly of Bloomsbury

Synopsis: In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her mother owns a boarding house and at first, the socialite turns up his blue-blooded nose at them. But then he begins learning more about their lives and gradually changes his Read More

1940