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Reginald Denham (10 January 1894 – 4 February 1983) was an English writer, theatre and film director, actor and film producer.
He spent a good part of his career directing Broadway theatre, with a career spanning from the melodrama Rope's End (1929) by Patrick Hamilton, to the courtroom drama Hostile Witness (1966). In 1930 he produced the First World War drama Suspense in the West End. He began working in the United States in 1943.
Denham's marriage to Irish actress Moyna Macgill ended in divorce in 1924. On November 15, 1924, he married English actress Lilian Oldland. They were divorced, and he married American actress and writer Mary Orr (from 1947 until his death). While they were married, Denham and Orr were writing partners. His daughter with Macgill, Isolde Denham, married actor Peter Ustinov when they were both 19.
Denham's autobiography, Stars In My Hair, was publshed by Crown Publishers in 1958.
He died following a stroke in Tenafly, New Jersey.
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Categories: 1894 Births, 1983 Deaths, 20th-century English Male Actors, 20th-century English Screenwriters, English Male Silent Film Actors, English Film Directors, English Film Producers, English Male Screenwriters, Male Actors From London, 20th-century English Male Writers, 20th-century English Businesspeople, English Emigrants To The United States
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