Paul Daneman

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Paul Daneman (29 October 1925 - 28 April 2001) was an English actor with several film and television credits to his name.

Paul was born in London. He attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School and Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and studied stage design at Reading University where he joined the dramatic society. After training at RADA he joined Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham rep and the Old Vic for four years. He was the first actor to play Vladimir in Waiting For Godot at the Arts Theatre.

Film credits include: Zulu and Oh! What a Lovely War.

TV credits include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Danger Man, Out of the Unknown, The Saint, Spy Trap, Blake's 7, The Professionals and Rumpole of the Bailey. The BBC's 1960 landmark production "An Age of Kings," a fifteen part drama that combined Shakespeare's histories of the Kings of England and presented them in chronological order, featured Paul as Richard III.

Paul Daneman played the husband of Wendy Craig in the original series of the popular BBC sitcom Not in Front of the Children before being replaced by Ronald Hines.

Paul played the part of Bilbo Baggins in the 1968 BBC Radio dramatisation of JRR Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'

While recovering from a heart attack, he wrote the sitcom Affairs of the Heart. In 1995, Paul wrote a novel, "If I Only Had Wings", inspired by his experiences in the RAF during World War II.

His grave is at the East Sheen Cemetery, South West London, and this is also the cemetery where another actor Roy Kinnear is buried.