Denis Lill Movies and Career Information

Denis Lill (born 22 April 1942, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born British actor. Some of his many film and television roles include Fall of Eagles (1974), Edward the Seventh (1975), Survivors (1975-1977), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), as William Knox d-Arcy, the Australian oil pioneer in Persia, in Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), Rumpole of the Bailey (1983-1992), Mapp & Lucia (1985-1986), Only Fools and Horses (1989-1992), Richard III (1995), Evita (1996), and Rebecca (1997). Lill twice appeared in the BBC's science fiction series Doctor Who: as Dr Fendelman in the 1977 serial Image of the Fendahl and as Sir George Hutchinson in 1984's The Awakening, and starred in the second (1976 and 1977) two series of Terry Nation's post-apocalyptic BBC drama Survivors as Charles Vaughan. In the 1990s sitcom Outside Edge he played Dennis. Lill's first appearance in a Doctor Who serial was in "Image of the Fendahl" alongside Wanda Ventham. Wanda would go on to play Lill's on screen wife, Pamela, when he played Alan Parry in Only Fools and Horses. He also appeared as the drunken MP Sir Talbot Buxomly who died onscreen in an episode of Blackadder the Third. He also appeared as Sir Reuben