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Denis Quilley

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Actor
Born:
December 26, 1927 in London, England, UK
Death:
October 5, 2003
Biography:Perhaps best known to British audiences for his extensive work on the West End stage, actor Denis Quilley also parlayed his stage success into an impressive feature film and television career -- usually by means of such stage-bound adaptations as A Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973) and The Crucible (1980). A London native who began his career in 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theater, the following decade soon found Quilley rising through the West End ranks courtesy of winning performances in Wild Thyme and Grab Me a Gondola. Appropriately enough, the experienced stage actor would in 1955 make his television debut in a small-screen production of The Merchant of Venice. Though he would continue to appear frequently in both film and television (where he hosted the program The Magic of Music and appeared in such popular series as Contrabandits, Timeslip, and Clayhanger), it was his leading role in... Full Biography
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