David Markham

David Markham (3 April 1913 – 15 December 1983) was an English stage and film actor for over forty years.

Markham was born Peter Basil Harrison in Wick, Worcestershire and died in Hartfield, East Sussex.

He was married to Olive Dehn (1914–2007), a BBC Radio dramatist, from 1937 until his death. They had four children together. Their daughters are Sonia (illustrator), Kika (born 1940, actress, widow of actor Corin Redgrave), Petra (born 1947, actress), and Jehane (married to actor Roger Lloyd-Pack).^[1]

In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector.^[2]

David Markham appeared occasionally in cinema and often on television. He appeared in Carol Reed's film The Stars Look Down (1939) and in François Truffaut's films Jules and Jim (1972), in which he plays a fortuneteller with his daughter Kika, and Day for Night (1973). He twice played the father of Robin Phillips in two films, Two Gentlemen Sharing in 1969, and again in Tales From The Crypt in 1972.

Selected filmography

• The Stars Look Down (1939) - Arthur Barras
• The Blakes Slept Here (1953) - Edward
• Last of the Long-haired Boys (1968) - Brindle
• Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) - Roddy's Father
• Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) - Doctor Burgess
• Tales From The Crypt (1972) - Father
• Z.P.G. (1972) - Dr. Herrick
• Day for Night (1973) - Doctor 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
• 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

External links

• David Markham at the Internet Movie Database
• David Markham at AllMovie