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(20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967)
 Born
Reginald Leigh Dugmore in Richmond, Surrey, England, he began his
film career in 1915 and made films both in the US and England until
the 1960's. He came from a theatrical family who came to the US in
1912 to appear in the stage production Quaker Girl. His father was
the actor and singer W. H. Denny.
Denny was a well known actor in silent films and with the advent of
Talkies he became a character actor. He played a lead role in a
number of his earlier films, generally as a comedic Englishman, and
later had reasonably steady work as a supporting actor in dozens of
movies, including a screen version of Anna Karenina with Greta Garbo
and the Frank Sinatra "caper" movie Assault on a Queen.
Later, Denny made frequent appearances in television during the
1950s and 60's. His last role was in Batman: The Movie (1966) as
Commodore Schmidlapp. |
