Cast: Maurice Denham

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Maurice Denham. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Day of the Jackal

1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel

Synopsis Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

Night of the Demon

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dana Andrews · Peggy Cummins · Niall MacGinnis · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

84 Charing Cross Road

1987 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Anne Bancroft · Anthony Hopkins · Judi Dench · Jean De Baer

Synopsis True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Mark

1961 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Green

Cast Stuart Whitman · Maria Schell · Rod Steiger · Brenda De Banzie

Synopsis A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist. This is the story of a 33 year old man, Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), released...

6.9

23 votes

6.9

23 votes

Our Man in Havana

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Alec Guinness · Burl Ives · Maureen O'Hara · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Michael Jayston · Janet Suzman · Tom Baker · Laurence Olivier

Synopsis The tragic story of Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their daughters, and the painful...

6.8

928 votes

6.8

928 votes

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Trevor Howard · Griffith Jones · Sally Gray · René Ray

Synopsis In this gritty film noir, ex-RAF flyer Morgan joins a break-in gang led by Narcy. On his first job, the getaway car crashes after killing a policeman. Morgan is framed as the driver and sent to jail. Seeking revenge, he...

6.8

282 votes

6.8

282 votes

23 Paces to Baker Street

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Van Johnson · Vera Miles · Cecil Parker · Patricia Laffan

Synopsis Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a suspicious conversation, that leads him into a desperate race, to find the accomplices. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Nanny

1965 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Seth Holt

Cast Bette Davis · Jill Bennett · William Dix · James Villiers

Synopsis A ten-year-old boy returns from a home for disturbed children where he was sent after being accused of drowning his sister in the bathtub. He knows who was really responsible but no one will believe him. Now he is back...

6.7

987 votes

6.7

987 votes

Man with a Million

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gregory Peck · Ronald Squire · Joyce Grenfell · A.E. Matthews

Synopsis 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...

6.6

971 votes

6.6

971 votes

H.M.S. Defiant

1962 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Alec Guinness · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Quayle · Tom Bell

Synopsis The crew of a British sailing ship threatens mutiny during the Napoleonic wars.

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

Paranoiac

1963 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Janette Scott · Oliver Reed · Sheila Burrell · Maurice Denham

Synopsis 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...

6.6

265 votes

6.6

265 votes

Two Way Stretch

1960 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Day

Cast Peter Sellers · David Lodge · Bernard Cribbins · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis 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...

6.5

208 votes

6.5

208 votes

The Upturned Glass

1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast James Mason · Rosamund John · Pamela Mason · Ann Stephens

Synopsis 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,...

6.5

39 votes

6.5

39 votes

Simon and Laura

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Peter Finch · Kay Kendall · Muriel Pavlow · Hubert Gregg

Synopsis 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...

6.4

27 votes

6.4

27 votes

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

1971 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Glenda Jackson · Peter Finch · Murray Head · Peggy Ashcroft

Synopsis A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is seeing the...

6.4

605 votes

6.4

605 votes

Sink the Bismarck!

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Dana Wynter · Carl Möhner · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis 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...

6.3

526 votes

6.3

526 votes

The Spider and the Fly

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Eric Portman · Guy Rolfe · Nadia Gray · George Cole

Synopsis 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.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

Daybreak

1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Ann Todd · Eric Portman · Maxwell Reed · Edward Rigby

Synopsis A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his boss's wife - after a...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes