Paul Frederick Daneman (29 October 1925 – 28 April 2001) was an English film, television, and theatre actor. He was successful for more than 40 years on stage, film and television.

Early life

Paul Daneman was born in

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. He attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School in

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, and

Sir William Borlase's Grammar School (Follow things worthy of thyself) , established = , type = Academy grammar school , head = Kay Mountfield (since 2018) , founder = Sir William Borlase , specialist = Performing Arts College , address = Wes ...

in Marlow,

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, and studied stage design at

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where he joined the dramatic society. His passion for the stage ignited during

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when entertaining troops in the

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, in which he served with Bomber Command from 1943 until 1947. After the war he abandoned a career as a painter in order to go to

RADA The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Se ...

Career

After training at RADA he joined

Bristol Old Vic Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London. It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a f ...

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, and the

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for four years. At the British premiere in August 1955 he created the role of Vladimir in '' Waiting For Godot'', at the

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. His film credits included ''

Time Without Pity ''Time Without Pity'' is a 1957 British film noir thriller film about a father trying to save his son from execution for murder. The film was directed by expatriate American Joseph Losey after he was blacklisted in the U.S. during the ( McCar ...

'' (1957), '' Zulu'' (1964), ''

How I Won the War ''How I Won the War'' is a 1967 British black comedy film starring Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, and John Lennon in his only non-musical acting role. The film, which was directed and produced by Richard Lester, is b ...

'' (1967) and ''

Oh! What a Lovely War ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' is a 1969 British comedy musical war film directed by Richard Attenborough (in his directorial debut), with an ensemble cast, including Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Oli ...

'' (1969). Daneman's TV credits include: ''

The Adventures of Robin Hood ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de H ...

'', '' The Four Just Men'', ''

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'', ''

Danger Man ''Danger Man'' (retitled ''Secret Agent'' in the United States for the revived series, and ''Destination Danger'' and ''John Drake'' in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again b ...

'', ''

Out of the Unknown ''Out of the Unknown'' is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Most episodes of the first three series were a dramatisation of a science f ...

'', ''

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'', ''

Spy Trap ''Spy Trap'' was a BBC drama that ran from 1972 to 1975 on BBC1, and set around "The Department", a British counter-espionage organisation. It starred Paul Daneman as Commander Paul Ryan, a naval officer and spy chief, Prentis Hancock as Lieute ...

'', ''

Blake's 7 ''Blake's 7'' (sometimes styled ''Blakes7'') is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four 13-episode series were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first ...

'', '' The Professionals'' and ''

Rumpole of the Bailey ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, oft ...

''. The BBC's 1960 landmark production ''

An Age of Kings ''An Age of Kings'' is a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential history plays of William Shakespeare (''Richard II'', '' 1 Henry IV'', '' 2 Henry IV'', ''Henry V'', '' 1 Henry VI'', '' 2 Henry VI'', '' 3 Henry VI'' and ''Richar ...

'', a fifteen-part drama that combined

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's histories of the kings of England and presented them in chronological order, featured Daneman as Richard III. In the early 60s he toured West Africa and Australia. Daneman played the husband of

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in the original series of the popular BBC

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'' Not in Front of the Children'' before being replaced by

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. He also played

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in the 1968

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dramatisation of

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's ''

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''. In that same year he appeared in the

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detective series episode "The Sign of Four" as two brothers with

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as Sherlock. While recovering from a heart attack, he wrote the sitcom '' Affairs of the Heart''. In 1995 Daneman published ''If I Only Had Wings'', a novel inspired by his experiences in the

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during

Personal life

Daneman was married twice. He married his first wife Susan Courtney in 1952, and they adopted a daughter, but divorced. He and his second wife, Meredith Kinmont (whom he married in 1965), had two daughters.Obituary, ''The Guardian''
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Death

Aged 75, Daneman died in 2001. His body was buried at

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Cemetery in South-West London.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daneman, Paul 1925 births 2001 deaths 20th-century English male actors English male film actors English male television actors English television writers Royal Air Force personnel of World War II People from Islington (district) People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School People educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Male actors from London 20th-century English screenwriters

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