Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham
Birth date:	23 December 1909
Death date:	24 July 2002
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	President, Thirteenth Azmael
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	The Twin Dilemma & The Paradise of Death
Main time period active:	1984, 1993
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Marvellous History of St. Bernard, Hay Fever, Farewell to the Pegasus, The Man Within, Oliver Twist, Animal Farm, All at Sea, Sink the Bismark!, Sherlock Holmes, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, The Heroes of Telemark, From Chekhov with Love, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Lotus Eaters, The Day of the Jackal, Porridge, Marie Curie, Secret Army, Edward & Mrs. Simpson, Minder, Martin Luther, Herotic, Rumpole of the Bailey, Peak Practice, The Bill, Casualty
IMDb profile

Maurice Denham OBE (23 December 1909-24 July 2002) played Azmael in the Doctor Who television story The Twin Dilemma and voiced the President in the Doctor Who audio story The Paradise of Death.

He had earlier been considered for the role of Edward Waterfield in The Evil of the Daleks (DWM 200), Professor Hayter in Time-Flight, (TCH 35) and Hedin in Arc of Infinity. (TCH 36)

Career

His career as an actor on stage, film, radio and television spanned over sixty years. Before making acting his full time career, he was the lift engineer who installed the lifts at the BBC Broadcasting House.

Death

At the age of 92, he was the oldest actor to have appeared in Doctor Who at the time of his death and the last surviving cast member to be born in the 1900s.

External links

• Maurice Denham at the Internet Movie Database