Usually there's just one star of the month but it's impossible to separate the names of Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray. Married for over fifty years, their careers were inextricably linked.
Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Bailey was born in Kuala Lumpur, the daughter of a solicitor. After being educated in Britain she returned to Malaya to teach. Following the death of her father she returned to England. After a brief spell at art school she enrolled at the Webber-Douglas drama school.
John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison was born in Yorkshire and educated at Harrow public school and Oxford. From Oxford he too enrolled at Webber-Douglas which is where he met his future wife.
They married shortly after leaving drama school in Spring 1939, though not before Dulcie had changed changed her stage name to Gray (there was already a Dulcie Savage in the profession). Their careers got off to a healthy start but the war quickly intervened. He joined the Royal Signals and then the intelligence service. He had a quiet war for the most part, though he did get caught up in the chaos in Greece following its liberation.
By the time he got back home, Dulcie was already a star. Her big break came in the stage adaptation of Brighton Rock. This lead to a contract at Gainsborough where she scored a hit in They Were Sisters. His big break came quickly - even before he was demobilised - when one of Dulcie's old screen tests he'd helped on was viewed by producers looking for the lead of My Brother Jonathon.
From then on it was plain-sailing. Their first love was theatre and they toured in many productions. When the film work dried up Michael took to TV in the long-running series Boyd QC. Dulcie wrote plays and novels, and it wasn't until the 80s that she got a long-running series: Howard's Way.
| 1940 | Tilly of Bloomsbury |
| 1946 | Hungry Hill |
| 1947 | My Brother Jonathon |
| 1948 | The Blind Goddess |
| 1949 | The Glass Mountain |
| 1949 | Landfall |
| 1950 | The Franchise Affair |
| 1951 | The Magic Box |
| 1952 | Angels One Five |
| 1952 | The Tall Headlines |
| 1952 | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 1953 | There Was a Young Lady |
| 1955 | Contraband Spain |
| 1958 | The Truth About Women |
| 1960 | Faces in the Dark |
| 1983 | The Rocking Horse Winner |
| 1993 | Shadowlands |
| 1941 | Banana Ridge |
| 1944 | A Place of One's Own |
| 1944 | Two Thousand Women |
| 1945 | They Were Sisters |
| 1946 | Wanted for Murder |
| 1946 | The Years Between |
| 1947 | A Man About the House |
| 1947 | Mine Own Executioner |
| 1947 | My Brother Jonathon |
| 1949 | The Glass Mountain |
| 1950 | The Franchise Affair |
| 1953 | Angels One Five |
| 1953 | There Was a Young Lady |
| 1966 | A Man Could Get Killed |
