Denis Winston Healey Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Denis Healey was born on August 30, 1917 in Mottingham, Kent, England as Denis Winston Healey. He is an actor, known for Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush and Camera (1998), Lord of Misrule (1996) and Question Time (1979). He has been married to Edna Healey since 1945. They have three children.
[In 1978, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying in the House of Commons to a speech in which Geoffrey Howe, the Shadow Chancellor, censured him] "That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep".
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As prime minister she was bad, without any question, but when I got to know her as a human being I found she had quite attractive qualities. One felt rather sorry for her because she was quite fragile. (On Margaret Thatcher)
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[when asked in 2009 whether he would have made a good prime minister if he had stood for the Labour leadership against James Callaghan in the 1970s] "I probably would. But it is better for people to wonder why I wasn't prime minister than to wonder why I was."
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Fact
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He served as an MP for Leeds for 37 years, before joining the House of Lords in 1992.
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He was defense secretary under PM Harold Wilson in the 1960s.
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He joined the Army in 1940, and served in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, ending the war as a major.
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He played several musical instruments, including the piano and double bass. He also enjoyed gardening, painting, and photography.
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Graduated with a double first in Mods and Greats from Balliol College, Oxford University.
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Mike Yarwood invented "Silly Billy" as a catchphrase for his impersonation of Healey. Healey adopted it and used it to put down opponents.
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When an opponent criticised him and said "Denis Healey would sell his own grandmother", his deputy at the Treasury leapt to his defence with "No, he would get me to do it for him"
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Was vice chancellor of the exchequer when he appeared on the BBC's improvised television spoof The Wizard of Oz (1977)
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Wizard of Oz
1977
TV Movie
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?
2015
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself (as Lord Healey)
Welsh Greats
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
Heath vs Wilson: The 10 Year Duel
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Wilson Cabinet, 1964-1970 (as Lord Healey)
The Queen's Wedding
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself - International Secretary, Labour Party 1946-52
The Grumpy Guide to...
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Sunday Programme
1995-2007
TV Series
Himself
Balderdash & Piffle
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
Mortgaged to the Yanks
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself - Secretary of State for Defence 1964-70
Sunday AM
2006
TV Series
Himself
Cold War, Dirty Science
2005
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Looking for Victoria
2003
TV Movie
Himself (as Lord Healey)
Breakfast with Frost
2002
TV Series
Himself
Heroes of Comedy
1997-2002
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Secret Rulers of the World
2001
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Founder Member, Bilderberg Group
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush and Camera
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself (as Lord Healey)
A Very Singular Man: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Balliol College, Oxford, 1936-1940 / Royal Engineers, 1940-1945
Labour's Old Romantic
1997
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Labour Deputy Leader, 1980-1983
Lord of Misrule
1996
TV Movie
Himself (as Lord Healey)
The Churchills
1996
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
A Progress Through Politics
1995
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Wilson Cabinet (as Lord Healey)
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years
1993
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Shadow Foreign Secretary 1980-1987
World in Action
1976-1993
TV Series documentary
Himself
Question Time
1980-1992
TV Series
Himself
Panorama
1960-1992
TV Series documentary
Himself / Himself - Leadership Contender
Television's Greatest Hits
1992
TV Series documentary
Himself
This Week
1964-1990
TV Series
Himself
Wogan
1989
TV Series
Himself
This Is Your Life
1989
TV Series documentary
Himself
Weekend World
1973-1988
TV Series
Himself
Aspel & Company
1987-1988
TV Series
Himself
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
TV Series
Himself
Election 1987
1987
TV Movie
Himself - Labour
Labour Party Election Broadcast (21 May 1987)
1987
Documentary short
Himself
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1986
TV Series
Himself
Bestseller
1985
TV Movie documentary
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984
TV Movie
Himself (uncredited)
No 73
1984
TV Series
Himself
Spitting Image
1984
TV Series
Himself
TV Eye
1979-1983
TV Series
Himself
Election 83
1983
TV Movie
Himself
A Week in Politics
1983
TV Series
Himself
Face the Music
1983
TV Series
Himself - Panellist
TV-aktuelt
1983
TV Series documentary
Himself
Decision 79
1979
TV Movie
Himself - Chancellor of the Exchequer (as Rt Hon Denis Healey)
Crime Writers
1978
TV Series documentary
Himself
Election 74
1974/I
TV Movie
Himself - Labour
Yesterday's Men
1971
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Defence Secretary, 1964-1970
Election 70
1970
TV Movie
Himself (as Rt Hon Denis Healey)
1964 General Election
1964
TV Special documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 70s
2012
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Great Offices of State
2010
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Chancellor, 1974-79
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
2009
TV Series documentary
Himself - Member of the Bilderberg Group
Henry VIII
1997
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Heroes of Comedy
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself
Memories of 1970-1991
1991
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Rock 'n' Roll Years
1986
TV Series
Himself - Minister of Defence
TV Eye
1981-1984
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015) as Himself
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush and Camera (1998) as Himself
$800,000
