the actors' trade union, Equity. He was a member of its council from 1949 to 1976, and was its vice-president in 1952, 1961–1963 and 1973. From 1975 to 1978 he was a member of the drama panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Denison was decorated by Queen Elizabeth II with the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and both he and his wife were appointed Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1983. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Partial filmography Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940) Hungry Hill (1947) The Blind Goddess (1948) My Brother Jonathan (1948) Landfall (1949) The Glass Mountain (1949) The Franchise Affair (1951) The Magic Box (1951) Angels One Five (1952) The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) There Was a Young Lady (1953) Contraband Spain (1955) The Truth About Women (1957) Faces in the Dark (1960) Village Wooing (1962) Shadowlands (1993) References Sources External links BBC News 22 July 1998: Screen gent Denison dies Retrieved 2012-01-11 New York Times 26 July 1998: Michael Denison, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 82 Retrieved 2012-01-11 1915 births 1998 deaths 20th-century English male actors Actors from Doncaster Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British Army personnel of World War II English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors Intelligence Corps soldiers People educated at Harrow School Royal Corps of Signals soldiers