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David Markham (3 April 1913 – 15 December 1983) was an English people stage and film actor for over forty years.
Markham was born Peter Basil Harrison in Wick, Worcestershire and died in Hartfield, East Sussex.
In 1937 he married Olive Dehn (1914–2007), a BBC Radio playwright. They had four daughters: Sonia, an illustrator; Kika Markham (b. 1940), an actress, widow of actor Corin Redgrave; Petra Markham (b. 1944), an actress; and Jehane Markham, a poet and dramatist, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack.Nicholas Tucker, "Obituary. Olive Dehn: Poet and children's writer", The Independent, 7 April 2007
In World War II, he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector, before being allowed to do forestry work.Jonathan Croall: Don't You Know There's a War On?, 1988
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 Two English Girls (1972), in which he plays a fortuneteller with his daughter Kika Markham, and Day for Night (1973).
His first television appearance may have been with Peter Wyngarde in a BBC One play called "The Rope", broadcast on 12 January 1950."IN TOWN TO-NIGHT", Essex Newsman, Friday 13 January 1950, p. 2 He played the father of Robin Phillips in two films, Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) and Tales From The Crypt (1972).
Markham portrayed Prime Minister H. H. Asquith (a close look-alike) in the 1981 BBC Wales drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, alongside his daughter Kika Markham, who played Lloyd George's secretary, lover and later second wife – Frances Stevenson.
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