
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.

Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · as Foscarelli

Evil Under the Sun
1982 · as Kenneth Marshall

Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · as Weston

King David
1985 · as Prophet Samuel

Memed My Hawk
1984 · as Rejeb

The Black Windmill
1974 · as Bateson

Life at the Top
1965 · as Ben

Mister Johnson
1991 · as Bulteen

In This House of Brede
1975 · as Sir Richard

Foreign Body
1986 · as Prime Minister

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
1992 · as Lord Curzon

Sparrow
1994 · as Baron Cesaro

The Shell Seekers
1989 · as Cosmo

Privates on Parade
1983 · as Acting Captain Terri Dennis

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982 · as Self / Cap. Kenneth Marshall

The Crucible
1980 · as Reverend Samuel Parris

Magasinet Special: Chess 1984
1984 · as Self

The Interrogation of John
1987 · as Insp. Charteris