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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

6.6

265 votes

6.6

265 votes

The Last Vampyre (TV)

1993 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

6.5

247 votes

6.5

247 votes

Two Way Stretch

1960 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Day

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes