Acting

Denis Holmes

Born 1921-06-07 · Foleshill, Coventry, England, UK

Acting credits

Sabrina poster
6.2

After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.

Sabrina

1995

Beasts: Buddyboy poster
3.0

When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale's "Beasts" horror anthology miniseries.

Beasts: Buddyboy

1976

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission poster
6.3

Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

1985

Moonlighting poster
7.1

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Moonlighting

1982

The Scarlet Blade poster
5.5

A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring-do.

The Scarlet Blade

1963

The Brides of Fu Manchu poster
5.9

This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.

The Brides of Fu Manchu

1966

Cover Girl Killer poster
5.1

A madman is on the loose... killing fashion models that appear on the cover of magazines. The police start a manhunt in an attempt to capture the killer.

Cover Girl Killer

1959

Echo of Diana poster
5.8

When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.

Echo of Diana

1963

No artwork available
7.0

Two British pilots begin an airline that serves the Singapore-to-Hong Kong route. One of their flights develops problems and crashes in the jungle. What makes matters even worse, is that aboard the crashed plane are desperately needed medical supplies…

Flight from Singapore

1962

Return of a Stranger poster
5.5

An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.

Return of a Stranger

1961

The Return of Mr. Moto poster
5.1

Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.

The Return of Mr. Moto

1965

No artwork available
NR

Four former inmates of a hospital for the mentally handicapped, move in next door to a middle aged couple in suburbia.

Why Here?

1977

Speed for Thespians poster
6.2

Three actors and a director perform Chekhov's The Bear on a New York City bus (actually, a succession of buses, as they keep getting thrown off). The other riders on the final bus get progressively more interested.

Speed for Thespians

2000

Paul Temple Returns poster
6.1

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.

Paul Temple Returns

1952

Murder in the Cathedral poster
6.5

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.

Murder in the Cathedral

1951

The Partner poster
6.0

A tax avoidance scheme by a film producer leads to murder and the theft of £300,000.

The Partner

1963

Love on a Gunboat poster
NR

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

Love on a Gunboat

1977

The Verdict poster
7.0

A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow.

The Verdict

1964

The Government Inspector poster
6.0

Gogol's comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

The Government Inspector

1958

Attempt to Kill poster
NR

A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.

Attempt to Kill

1961