Actor
Maurice Bush
June 3, 1930 · Pimlico, London, England, UK
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Kenneth Colley
3 titles together
The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Mark Hamill
2 titles together
The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Harrison Ford
2 titles together
The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Carrie Fisher
2 titles together
The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Billy Dee Williams
2 titles together
The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Anthony Daniels
2 titles together
The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
Full filmography · 18
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
as The Doorman
1992
Knockback: 1
as Prisoner
1985
Return of the Jedi
as Dengar - The Bounty Hunter (uncredited)
19837.9
The Empire Strikes Back
as Dengar (uncredited)
19808.4
Trial by Combat
as Lorry Driver #3
1976
Son of Dracula
as Monster
1974
The Creeping Flesh
as Karl
19735.9
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
as Ogron
1972
Scars of Dracula
as Farmer
19705.9
Doctor in Trouble
as Russian Trawlerman (uncredited)
1970
The Frightened City
as Basher Prebble
19616.6
Laughing Anne
as Battling Brunius
1953