
Paul Daneman
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Paul Daneman (29 October 1925 - 28 April 2001) was an English film, television, theatre and voice actor.
Paul Frederick Daneman was born in Islington, London. He attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School and Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and studied stage design at Reading University where he joined the dramatic society. After training at RADA he joined Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep and the Old Vic for four years. In August 1955 he created the role of Vladimir in Waiting For Godot, at the Arts Theatre in Westminster.
His film credits include: Zulu and Oh! What a Lovely War. Daneman's TV credits include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Persuasion (1960 series), Danger Man, Out of the Unknown, The Saint, Spy Trap, Blake's 7, The Professionals and Rumpole of the Bailey. The BBC's 1960 landmark production "||An Age of Kings]]," a fifteen part drama that combined Shakespeare's histories of the Kings of England and presented them in chronological order, featured Daneman as Richard III.
Daneman played the husband of Wendy Craig in the original series of the popular BBC sitcom Not in Front of the Children before being replaced by Ronald Hines. He also played Bilbo Baggins in the 1968 BBC Radio dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
While recovering from a heart attack, he wrote the sitcom Affairs of the Heart. In 1995 Daneman published If I Only Had Wings, a novel inspired by his experiences in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
Daneman died in 2001 and was buried at East Sheen Cemetery, South West London.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.043 |
Birthday | 1925-10-29 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Paul Frederick Daneman, |

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War
6.7/44
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...
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Oh! What a Lovely War

1964

Zulu
7.4/525
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered...
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Zulu

1957

Time Without Pity
6.6/44
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
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Time Without Pity

1989

Blore M.P.
1/1
Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an...
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Blore M.P.

1986

The Little Match Girl
2/1
The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was...
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The Little Match Girl

1955

Fun at St. Fanny's
5.3/3
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster D...
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Fun at St. Fanny's

1961

Clue of the New Pin
6.5/2
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to th...
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Clue of the New Pin

1961

The Fourth Square
0/0
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
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The Fourth Square

1962

Locker Sixty-Nine
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A shady business man has perpetrated a fraud that has resulted in the death of a large number of people. His business partner has evidence of the frau...
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Locker Sixty-Nine

1988

Tears in the Rain
5.2/10
When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrive...
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Tears in the Rain

1986

Theban Plays: Antigone
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In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of d...
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Theban Plays: Antigone

1991

Thatcher: The Final Days
6.5/2
The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.
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Thatcher: The Final Days

1967

How I Won the War
5.5/36
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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How I Won the War

1983

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
6.3/3
Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered J...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

1980

Jessie
0/0
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his or...
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Jessie

1982

Tishoo
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Tishoo

1987

Roman Holiday
4.2/6
Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American...
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Roman Holiday

1956

Peril for the Guy
6.5/2
Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.
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