David Oxley

David Oxley
in Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
Born(1920-11-07)7 November 1920
Wellington, Somerset, England
Died30 October 1985(1985-10-30) (aged 64)
Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActor
Years active1947-75

David Oxley (7 November 1920 – 30 October 1985) was an English actor who made many film, television and stage appearances over a 28-year period.[1][2] He is best known for portraying Gilles de Rais in Saint Joan (1957), Sir Hugo Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and for the major role of Captain W. Stanley Moss in Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), based on the true story of the Kidnap of General Kreipe in 1944.[3]

Oxley had an extraordinarily powerful voice that he used to great effect, being able to fill an auditorium without the aid of microphones, and seen to best effect as Sir Hugo Baskerville.[3] He trained at the Central School of Dramatic Art in 1946.[4] His stage work included early appearances at Stratford, as well as touring New Zealand with J. C. Williamson Theatres in 1961 as Henry Higgins, in one of two original Australasian productions of My Fair Lady.[2][5] Oxley suffered a stroke in October 1985 whilst sunbathing at his hotel in Málaga, Spain. His friend, author Graham Murray, was at his bed-side when he died.

He also appeared in Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Sea Fury (1958), Yesterday's Enemy (1959), Life at the Top (1965), Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) and House of the Living Dead (1974).[6] His television appearances included Danger Man (1960).[7][8]

  1. ^ "David Oxley". BFI. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "David Oxley | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. ^ a b McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (20 July 2013). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780719091391 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "My Fair Lady - David Oxley" (PDF). p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2017.
  5. ^ Studios, Allan (20 July 1960). "Patricia Moore as Eliza Doolittle and David Oxley as Henry Higgins in the J.C. Williamson production of My fair lady, act I, scene 5, Higgins' study, 1960" – via Trove.
  6. ^ "David Oxley | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  7. ^ "The Probert Encyclopaedia of Actors". Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. David Oxley at probert encyclopedia.com. retrieved 13 June 2011
  8. ^ "David Oxley". digiguide.tv. Retrieved 16 June 2024.