Biography
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.
In 1937 he married Olive Dehn (1914–2007), a BBC Radio dramatist. 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.In World War II, he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector, before being allowed to do forestry work.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 Two English Girls (1972), in which he plays a fortuneteller with his daughter Kika, and Day for Night (1973). He played the father of Robin Phillips in two films, Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) and Tales From The Crypt (1972).Markham portrayed Prime Minister H. H. Asquith 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.
Filmography
all 29
Movies 25
TV Shows 4
self 1
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Gandhi (1982)
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
Richard's Things (1980)
That Crazy Woman (1980)
Tess (1979)
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
The Roads of Exile (1978)
Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977)
Bukovsky (1977)
Whose Child Am I? (1976)
Day for Night (1973)
Z.P.G. (1972)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Two English Girls (1971)
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
The Rainbirds (1971)
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt (1969)
And Did Those Feet ? (1965)
Silas Marner (1964)
The Dawn Killer (1959)
The Master Builder (1958)
London Playhouse (1955)
The Right Person (1955)
Pride and Prejudice (1952)
Rope (1947)
The Stars Look Down (1940)
Murder in the Family (1938)
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GenderMale
Birthday1913-04-03
Deathday1983-12-15 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceWick, United Kingdom
ChildrenPetra Markham, Kika Markham
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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