Person
Maurice Bush
Acting · Born 1930-06-03 · Pimlico, London, England, UK
Biography
British boxer-turned-actor Maurice Bush (who was occasionally billed as Morris Bush) was a supporting player in a number of British films and television series from the 1950s to the 1990s. His filmography includes The Hellfire Club (1961), The Frightened City (1961), Scars of Dracula (1970) and The Creeping Flesh (1973). He also appeared in many popular British television series, including Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor Who (cast as an Ogron, an alien enemy of the Doctor) and Inspector Morse. Bush was selected to play mummy-like bounty hunter Dengar in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980), uncredited and without any speaking lines.
Known for
Doctor Who
Ogron
The Empire Strikes Back
Dengar (uncredited)
Return of the Jedi
Dengar - The Bounty Hunter (uncredited)
New Scotland Yard
Frank Gray
Target
Grizzly
On the Buses
1969
Budgie
Maurice
Scars of Dracula
Farmer
The Racing Game
1979
The Creeping Flesh
Karl
Filmography
- 1992The Secret Life of Arnold BaxThe Doorman
- 1985Knockback: 1Prisoner
- 1983Return of the JediDengar - The Bounty Hunter (uncredited)
- 1980The Empire Strikes BackDengar (uncredited)
- 1979The Racing Game
- 1977TargetGrizzly
- 1976Trial by CombatLorry Driver #3
- 1974Son of DraculaMonster
- 1973The Creeping FleshKarl
- 1972New Scotland YardFrank Gray
- 1972Doctor Who: Day of the DaleksOgron
- 1971BudgieMaurice
- 1970Scars of DraculaFarmer
- 1970Doctor in TroubleRussian Trawlerman (uncredited)
- 1969On the Buses
- 1963Doctor WhoOgron
- 1961The Frightened CityBasher Prebble
- 1953Laughing AnneBattling Brunius
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