Denis Shaw

Denis Shaw

Born: April 7, 1921
Died: February 28, 1971
in Dulwich, London, England, UK

Movies for Denis Shaw...

Title: Bright's Boffins
Released: August 4, 1970
Type: TV
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The File of the Golden Goose
Title: The File of the Golden Goose
Character: Vance
Released: October 13, 1969
Type: Movie
U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Golden Goose. Although Peter is unsure about John's loyalties, the two infiltrate the gang and win the trust of thug Nick "The Owl" Harrison before enduring a series of double-crosses.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Shopkeeper
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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The Viking Queen
Title: The Viking Queen
Character: Osiris
Released: March 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.
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The Deadly Affair
Title: The Deadly Affair
Character: Wolfe - Publican
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Released: May 17, 1964
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.
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The Pirates of Blood River
Title: The Pirates of Blood River
Character: Silver (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
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Title: Stryker of the Yard
Released: November 2, 1961
Type: TV
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Nothing Barred
Title: Nothing Barred
Character: Convict
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
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The Curse of the Werewolf
Title: The Curse of the Werewolf
Character: Gaoler
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Murray
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Giuseppe
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and she has likewise deceived him. When the truth inevitably outs, it hardly matters, since hero and heroine now love each other for themselves rather than their bank accounts.
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The Night We Got the Bird
Title: The Night We Got the Bird
Character: Manny's Stooge
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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The Criminal
Title: The Criminal
Character: Taxi Customer at Racetrack (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
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Beyond the Curtain
Title: Beyond the Curtain
Character: Krumm
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.
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Title: International Detective
Character: Horse Carlucci
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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Title: International Detective
Character: Victor Prado
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: TV
The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star Arthur---later Art---Fleming, who hosted the original `Jeopardy!'
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The Mummy
Title: The Mummy
Character: Mike
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Title: The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Character: Tavern Customer
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.
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Jack the Ripper
Title: Jack the Ripper
Character: Simes
Released: May 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
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Innocent Meeting
Title: Innocent Meeting
Character: Uncle
Released: April 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The daughter of a textile company owner falls in love with a young illustrator with a secret criminal past.
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The Great Van Robbery
Title: The Great Van Robbery
Character: Caesar Smith
Released: January 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
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Naked Fury
Title: Naked Fury
Character: Captain Horst
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl - provoking a serious falling-out and a violent conclusion to the disastrous heist.
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Passport to Shame
Title: Passport to Shame
Character: Mac
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
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Soapbox Derby
Title: Soapbox Derby
Character: Lender
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The Battersea Bats are a gang of four kids who have their den in an abandoned building near the Thames, and they have a plan of action in mind because in about a week there is a soapbox derby being held, a contest they mean to win.
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The Depraved
Title: The Depraved
Character: Inspector O'Flynn
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this vintage noir thriller.
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Seven Thunders
Title: Seven Thunders
Character: Fat German Soldier
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
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Let's Be Happy
Title: Let's Be Happy
Character: Fat Man in Train Corridor (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1957
Type: Movie
On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets businessman Stanley Smith, and romance blossoms in Edinburgh. The complications begin when Stanley breaks a date with Jeannie to woo voluptuous redhead Helene, and Jeannie is flattered by the attentions of the impoverished Lord McNairn; he's heard about her good fortune, and gallantly offers to show her the city.
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The Weapon
Title: The Weapon
Character: Groggins
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Professor Stumpf
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Biggs (as Dennis Shaw)
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Butcher
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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The Colditz Story
Title: The Colditz Story
Character: Priem
Released: January 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
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Forbidden Cargo
Title: Forbidden Cargo
Character: Ship's Cook
Released: May 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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House of Blackmail
Title: House of Blackmail
Character: Bassett
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
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The Long Memory
Title: The Long Memory
Character: Shaw (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1953
Type: Movie
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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Girdle of Gold
Title: Girdle of Gold
Character: Choirmaster
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.