Derrick De Marney
| Derrick De Marney | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 21, 1906(1906-09-21) London, England |
| Died | February 18, 1978 (aged 71) London, England |
| Occupation | Stage and film actor, producer |
Derrick De Marney (September 21, 1906, London, England – February 18, 1978, London, England) was an English stage and film actor and producer.
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Actor
On the London stage from 1926 and films from 1928, he is perhaps best known for his starring role as Robert Tisdall, wrongly accused of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937).
Other early film roles include Benjamin Disraeli (a role he also played on stage in Young Mr. Disraeli) in Victoria the Great (1937), and its sequel, Sixty Glorious Years (1938); as well as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), and Things to Come (1936).
After Young and Innocent he alternated between leading roles and supporting parts in films such as Dangerous Moonlight (1941), The First of the Few (1942), and Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948).
In 1947 he had another memorable part with the title role of Uncle Silas; a character part in which he played an evil old fortune hunter plotting against a young Jean Simmons. After a couple of more leads in self-produced films he tended to concentrate on the theatre, only taking small roles in film and television thereafter. His last role was in the horror film The Projected Man (1966).
Producer
With his brother, the actor Terence De Marney, he formed Concanen Productions and produced a number of wartime documentories on the Polish airforce, including The White Eagle and Diary of a Polish Airman (both 1942); as well as Leslie Howard's morale boosting film The Gentle Sex (1943). He also produced and starred in the thrillers Latin Quarter (1946), She Shall Have Murder (1950), Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954), a role he had created on stage, and No Way Back (1949), which he also wrote, and which starred his brother Terence.
Director
He also directed the documentory shorts Malta G.C. and London Scrapbook in 1942.
External links
- Derrick De Marney at the Internet Movie Database
- Derrick De Marney at the Internet Broadway Database
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