David Markham
David Markham (3 April 1913 – 15 December 1983) was an English stage and film actor for over forty years.Markham was born Peter Basil Harrison in Wick, Worcestershire and died in Hartfield, East Sussex.He was married to Olive Dehn (1914–2007), a BBC Radio dramatist, from 1937 until his death. They had four children together. Their daughters are Sonia (illustrator), Kika (born 1940, actress, widow of actor Corin Redgrave), Petra (born 1947, actress) and Jehane, married to actor Roger Lloyd-Pack.In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector.David Markham appeared occasionally in cinema and often on television. He appeared in Carol Reed's film The Stars Look Down (1939) and in François Truffaut's films Jules and Jim (1972), in which he plays a fortuneteller with his daughter Kika, and Day for Night (1973). He twice played the father of Robin Phillips in two films, Two Gentlemen Sharing in 1969, and again in Tales From The Crypt in 1972.
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| Alias (AKA) | Harrison Peter Basil |
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| Birth date | April 03, 1913 |
| Birth name | Peter Basil Harrison |
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| Date of death | December 15, 1983 |
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