Acting

David Markham

Born 1913-04-03 · Wick, Worcestershire, UK

Acting credits

Tess poster
7.1

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Tess

1979

Gandhi poster
7.6

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Gandhi

1982

Tales from the Crypt poster
6.8

When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.

Tales from the Crypt

1972

Day for Night poster
7.8

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Day for Night

1973

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb poster
5.5

Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

1971

Whose Child Am I? poster
4.6

Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.

Whose Child Am I?

1976

No artwork available
7.0

A KGB agent defects to UK and offers information about Russian spies within the British Intelligence. Can he be trusted?

Closing Ranks

1980

Richard's Things poster
4.9

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.

Richard's Things

1980

Two English Girls poster
7.0

In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.

Two English Girls

1971

The Stars Look Down poster
6.5

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

The Stars Look Down

1940

Bukovsky poster
6.0

Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky leaves the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards.

Bukovsky

1977

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt poster
NR

Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

1969

Rope poster
NR

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Rope

1947

Meetings with Remarkable Men poster
6.7

The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979

Z.P.G. poster
6.1

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

Z.P.G.

1972

The Red Pony poster
10.0

A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.

The Red Pony

1973

No artwork available
NR

Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover three hostages taken prisoner by a shadowy criminal organisation

The Three Hostages

1977

Two Gentlemen Sharing poster
5.5

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.

Two Gentlemen Sharing

1969

Wuthering Heights poster
7.5

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

Wuthering Heights

1967

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George poster
NR

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

1981

The Right Person poster
7.0

In Copenhagen, a former resistance fighter seeks the traitor responsible for betraying his comrades during World War II.

The Right Person

1955

The Roads of Exile poster
9.0

French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).

The Roads of Exile

1978

Philby, Burgess and Maclean poster
5.4

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

Philby, Burgess and Maclean

1977

No artwork available
NR

During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.

Loyalties

1976