Background
Markham was born Peter Basil Harrison in Wick, Worcestershire and died in Hartfield, East Sussex.
Markham was born Peter Basil Harrison in Wick, Worcestershire and died in Hartfield, East Sussex.
They had four daughters together: Sonia, illustrator. Kika (b 1940), actress, widow of actor Corin Redgrave. Petra (b 1947), actress.
And Jehane, poet and dramatist, widow of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack.
In World World War II, he was a conscientious objector. David Markham appeared occasionally in cinema and often on television
He twice played the father of Robin Phillips in two films, Two Gentlemen Sharing in 1969, and again in Tales From The Crypt in 1972.