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Years active
  
1972 - 1980

Name
  
Dennis Burgess


Role
  
Television actor

Died
  
1981

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Occupation
  
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Dennis Burgess (February 18, 1926 – November 3, 1980) was a British television actor born in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales. He married Glenys Maria Hare at Neath, in 1958.

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Burgess came from Port Talbot, and worked as a drama teacher for most of his adult life. He dedicated a lot of his time to helping his father care for his invalid mother, and it wasn't until after she had died that Burgess became a professional actor at 47 years of age, moving from Wales to the south east of England. His first professional role was in a film starring his boyhood friend Richard Burton, who had helped him into the profession. Burton and Burgess had remained great friends, and a series of letters written by the screen legend to his old friend, have previously been exhibited at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. They included an invitation to Burton's 50th birthday party in 1975, from his then wife Elizabeth Taylor.

Burgess went on to feature in The Professionals, The Sandbaggers, and The Elephant Man, and played the recurring role of Flambeau in Father Brown.

Sadly his second career was to be a short one. On the evening of 3 November 1980, Dennis Burgess was driving to his home in Chesham when he suffered a massive heart attack and veered off the road. He was found dead at the wheel of his car, in the middle of a cricket pitch, in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. He was 54.

Filmography

  • Bluebeard (1972)
  • Massacre in Rome (1973)
  • The Elephant Man (1980)
  • Television roles

  • Father Brown
  • Triangle
  • Within These Walls
  • The Professionals
  • The Sandbaggers
  • Fox
  • References

    Dennis Burgess Wikipedia


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