David Markham

David Markham

Born: April 3, 1913
Died: December 15, 1983
in Wick, Worcestershire, UK

Movies for David Markham...

Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Balfour
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Older Englishman
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Title: The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Character: Herbert Henry Asquith
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
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Richard's Things
Title: Richard's Things
Character: Morris
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
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That Crazy Woman
Title: That Crazy Woman
Character: Judge
Released: February 21, 1980
Type: Movie
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
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Tess
Title: Tess
Character: Reverend Mr. Clare
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Title: Meetings with Remarkable Men
Character: Dean Borsh
Released: August 5, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
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The Roads of Exile
Title: The Roads of Exile
Character: Richard Davenport
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Title: Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Character: Skardon
Released: May 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
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Bukovsky
Title: Bukovsky
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private screenings. The documentary appears publicly for the first time as a special feature of the BFI's 'Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)' box set, alongside 50 minutes of outtakes.
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Loyalties
Title: Loyalties
Character: Jacob Twisden
Released: February 29, 1976
Type: Movie
During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.
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Whose Child Am I?
Title: Whose Child Am I?
Character: Prof. Roland
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.
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Day for Night
Title: Day for Night
Character: Doctor Nelson
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Z.P.G.
Title: Z.P.G.
Character: Dr. Herrick
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
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Tales from the Crypt
Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Father
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
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Two English Girls
Title: Two English Girls
Character: Palmist
Released: November 18, 1971
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with Ann’s family, Claude falls in love with her sister Muriel, but both families lay down a year-long separation without contact before they may marry.
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Title: Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Character: Doctor Burgess
Released: June 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.
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The Rainbirds
Title: The Rainbirds
Character: Rev. Taylor
Released: February 11, 1971
Type: Movie
After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
Title: Two Gentlemen Sharing
Character: Mr Pater
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: Movie
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Title: Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Character: Archbishop of Sudbury
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality
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And Did Those Feet ?
Title: And Did Those Feet ?
Character: Timothy
Released: June 2, 1965
Type: Movie
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
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The Dawn Killer
Title: The Dawn Killer
Released: September 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Sheepdog Glen, accused of sheep killing on the Romney Marshes, is cleared by the efforts of his two youthful owners in time for the Sheepdog Trials.
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The Master Builder
Title: The Master Builder
Character: Ragnar Brovik
Released: February 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Halvard Solness is a middle-aged architect whose ruthlessness in his business makes him a hardened individual. Affected by his ambitions are his wife and his colleagues, until a young woman shows up asking for a promised kingdom.
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The Right Person
Title: The Right Person
Character: Jorgen Jorgensen
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
In Copenhagen, a former resistance fighter seeks the traitor responsible for betraying his comrades during World War II.
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Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Mr. Bingley
Released: February 2, 1952
Type: TV
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Arthur Barras - Barras' son
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Murder in the Family
Title: Murder in the Family
Character: Michael Osborne
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.