Michael Denison

Michael Denison
With wife, Dulcie Gray
Born	John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison (1915-11-01)1 November 1915 Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died	22 July 1998(1998-07-22) (aged 82) Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Cause of death	Cancer
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1938–1996
Spouse(s)	Dulcie Gray (1939–1998, his death)

John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison, CBE (1 November 1915 – 22 July 1998) was an English actor.

Denison was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1915. He was brought up by his aunt and uncle from the age of three weeks, following the death of his mother and his estrangement from his father.

Denison was educated at Wellesley House School, a Preparatory school in the coastal town of Broadstairs in Kent, followed by Harrow School in North West London, where he took part in school productions. It was while at Magdalen College, Oxford University, studying modern languages that he met John Gielgud and decided to take up acting seriously.

After graduating, Denison attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where he met Dulcie Gray, a fellow student, who later became his wife in 1939 and his acting partner. They appeared in more than 100 West End productions, together in some 28 plays in London and countless tours of Britain and elsewhere. They also appeared together in several films. Their intertwined professional lives reached their pinnacle in 1996 with their first appearance together on Broadway, in the Peter Hall production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Their last appearance together was in Curtain Up, an evening of reminiscences at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London, shortly before he died.