Biographies: Michael Denison - Actor

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A British actor, born in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, as John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison. He married actress Dulcie Gray (1939-1998), and she remained with him until his death. His most important works include My Brother Jonathan (1948), The Franchise Affair (1951), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), and Shadowlands (1993). Michael Denison enjoyed a very successful career in theater, film, and television. He and his wife, Dulcie Gray, appeared in more than 100 West End theatre productions, and their marriage, which lasted nearly 60 years, was one of the happiest artistic marriages in Britain. Michael Denison was born to a father who worked as a paint manufacturer. After the death of his parents, he was raised by his aunt and her husband. He was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, where he studied modern languages. He trained in acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he met Dulcie Gray, whom he married in 1939. He served during World War II in the Intelligence Corps. After the war ended, he returned to theatrical work and found his wife had become a major film star in Britain. She secured him a role in the movie My Brother Jonathan (1948). The following year, they presented together the film The Glass Mountain (1949). Throughout the fifties and sixties, the couple rarely worked outside the West End theatre. Denison worked in the television series Boyd Q.C. (1956-1964), where achieved great success. He appeared on Broadway in the play An Ideal Husband shortly before his death and returned to Britain to participate with his wife in the play Curtain Up. He died on July 22, 1998, in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, from cancer.

• 14 January 2024
• Dalia Saad