death_date death_place years_active birth_place children imagesize nationality name birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation
15 december 1983 hartfield , east sussex , england 1938-1983 wick , worcestershire , england sonia , kika , petra , jehane 150px british david markham 03 april 1913 olive dehn 1937 1983 -lrb- his death -rrb- david markham
 peter basil harrison actor
david markham

david markham -lrb- 3 april 1913 -- 15 december 1983 -rrb- was an english stage and film actor for over forty years .
markham was born peter basil harrison in wick , worcestershire and died in hartfield , east sussex .
he was married to olive dehn -lrb- 1914 -- 2007 -rrb- , a bbc radio dramatist , from 1937 until his death .
they had four children together .
their daughters are sonia -lrb- illustrator -rrb- , kika -lrb- born 1940 , actress , widow of actor corin redgrave -rrb- , petra -lrb- born 1947 , actress -rrb- , and jehane -lrb- married to actor roger lloyd-pack -rrb- .
in the second world war , he was a conscientious objector .
david markham appeared occasionally in cinema and often on television .
he appeared in carol reed 's film `` the stars look down '' -lrb- 1939 -rrb- and in françois truffaut 's films `` jules and jim '' -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , in which he plays a fortuneteller with his daughter kika , and `` day for night '' -lrb- 1973 -rrb- .
he twice played the father of robin phillips in two films , `` two gentlemen sharing '' in 1969 , and again in `` tales from the crypt '' in 1972 .
