Biography

Denis Clifford Quilley was an English actor. From a family with no theatrical connections, Quilley was determined from an early age to become an actor and was taken on by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in his teens. After a break for compulsory military service he began a West End career in 1950, succeeding Richard Burton in "The Lady's Not For Burning". In the 1950s he appeared in revue, musicals, operetta and on television as well as in classic and modern drama in the theatre.

Known For

Murder on the Orient Express

Foscarelli

Evil Under the Sun

Kenneth Marshall

Anne of the Thousand Days

Weston

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical

Self/Sweeney Todd

The Black Windmill

Bateson

King David

Prophet Samuel

Sparrow

Baron Cesaro

Life at the Top

Ben