David Markham (3 April 1913 – 15 December 1983) was an English stage and film actor for over forty years.[1][2]
Markham was born Peter Basil Harrison in Wick, Worcestershire and died in Hartfield, East Sussex.
In 1937 he married Olive Dehn (1914–2007), a BBC Radio dramatist.[3] They had four daughters: Sonia, an illustrator; Kika (b. 1940), an actress, widow of actor Corin Redgrave; Petra (b. 1944), an actress; and Jehane, a poet and dramatist, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack.[4]
In World War II, he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector, before being allowed to do forestry work.[5]
Markham appeared occasionally in cinema and often on television.[6] He appeared in Carol Reed's film The Stars Look Down (1939) and in François Truffaut's films Two English Girls (1972), in which he plays a fortuneteller with his daughter Kika, and Day for Night (1973).[7] He played the father of Robin Phillips in two films, Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) and Tales From The Crypt (1972).[2]
Markham portrayed Prime Minister H. H. Asquith (a close look-alike) in the 1981 BBC Wales drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, alongside his daughter Kika Markham, who played Lloyd George's secretary, lover and later second wife – Frances Stevenson.
Selected filmography
- Murder in the Family (1938) – Michael Osborne
- The Stars Look Down (1940) – Arthur Barras
- The Blakes Slept Here (1953) – Edward
- The Dawn Killer (1959) – Mr. Hawkes
- Last of the Long-haired Boys (1968) – Brindle
- Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) – Mr. Pater – Roddy's Father
- Family Life (1971)
- Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) – Doctor Burgess
- Two English Girls (1972) – Palmist
- Tales From The Crypt (1972) – Father – Edward Elliot (segment 3 "Poetic Justice")
- Z.P.G. (1972) – Dr. Herrick
- Day for Night (1973) – Doctor Michael Nelson
- La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu (1975) – Thomson
- Feelings (1975) – Professor Roland
- The Three Hostages (1977) – Greenslade
- La petite fille en velours bleu (1978) – Consul
- Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (1978) – William Sterndale Bennett
- Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) – Dean Borsh
- Tess (1979) – Reverend Clare
- Richard's Things (1980) – Mr Morris
- The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981) TV series – Herbert Henry Asquith
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981) (mini) TV series – Marlborough
- Gandhi (1982) – Older Englishman
References
- ^ "David Markham - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ a b "David Markham". Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
- ^ Karpf, Anne (31 March 2007). "Obituary: Olive Dehn". The Guardian.
- ^ Nicholas Tucker, "Obituary. Olive Dehn: Poet and children's writer", The Independent, 7 April 2007
- ^ Jonathan Croall: Don't You Know There's a War On?, 1988
- ^ "David Markham". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ "David Markham - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
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