David Markham

David Markham was an English actor who worked on stage and screen for more than forty years. Born in Wick, Worcestershire, he appeared only occasionally in cinema but was a frequent presence on television. His early film work included Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down (1939), and he later acted in François Truffaut's Two English Girls (1971), playing a fortune teller, and Day for Night (1973). He also appeared briefly in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982). Among his other credits were the films Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) and Tales From The Crypt (1972), in which he played the father of Robin Phillips. On television, his first appearance may have been in the BBC play The Rope, broadcast in January 1950, and in 1981 he portrayed Prime Minister H. H. Asquith in the BBC Wales drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George.