Denis Quilley, the booming-voiced British actor who starred in several London musicals and was a National Theatre mainstay, has died of cancer at 75.
In 1980, he won the Society of West End Theatre's SWET Award - London's equivalent of the Tony - for playing the title role of the murderous barber in Sweeney Todd, opposite Sheila Hancock.
Quilley won his first SWET Award In 1977 as the high-camp military man, Terri Dennis, in the Peter Nichols play-with-music, Privates On Parade.
He played the same role in the 1982 film version.
<i>Obituary:</i> Denis Quilley
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