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person_profile-Michael Goodliffe

Michael Goodliffe Died at age: 61

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Michael Goodliffe

Date of Birth:

Oct 01, 1914

Country of birth:

England

Died:

Mar 20, 1976

Biography of

Michael Goodliffe

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

    Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor best known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts.

    Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire (now Merseyside), the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of World War II, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany.

    Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noel Coward's Post Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists.

    After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best known film was A Night to Remember (1958) in which he played Thomas Andrews, builder of the RMS Titanic. His best known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance.

    Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape, whilst a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Goodliffe,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Michael Goodliffe

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Filmography of

Michael Goodliffe

Found 53 Movies in total

To the Devil a Daughter

George de Grass ( Actor )

... 1976

In Sickness and in Health

Dr David Muray ( Actor )

... 1975

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

General Weidling ( Actor )

... 1973

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Thomas More ( Actor )

... 1972

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Mr. Teevee (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1971

Macbeth

Duncan ( Actor )

... 1970

Cromwell

Solicitor General ( Actor )

... 1970

The 5th Day of Peace

Snow ( Actor )

... 1970

The Fixer

Ostrovsky ( Actor )

... 1968

The Jokers

Lt. Col. Paling ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1967

The Connoisseur

Rev. Adrian Tenterden ( Actor )

... 1966

Von Ryan's Express

Captain Stein ( Actor )

... 1965

The Gorgon

Professor Jules Heitz ( Actor )

... 1964

The 7th Dawn

Trumphey ( Actor )

... 1964

Woman of Straw

Solicitor ( Actor )

... 1964

633 Squadron

Squadron Leader Frank Adams ( Actor )

... 1964

Man in the Middle

Colonel Shaw ( Actor )

... 1964

80,000 Suspects

Clifford Preston ( Actor )

... 1963

The £20,000 Kiss

Sir Harold Trevitt ( Actor )

... 1962

Jigsaw

Clyde Burchard ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Jacko Jackson the Night Editor ( Actor )

... 1961

No Love for Johnnie

Dr. West ( Actor )

... 1961

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Charles Gill ( Actor )

... 1960

Peeping Tom

Don Jarvis ( Actor )

... 1960

Conspiracy of Hearts

Father Desmaines ( Actor )

... 1960

The Battle of the Sexes

Detective ( Actor )

... 1960

Testament of Orpheus

English Narrator (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1960

Sink the Bismarck!

Captain Banister ( Actor )

... 1960

The White Trap

Inspector Walters ( Actor )

... 1959

The 39 Steps

Brown ( Actor )

... 1959

Further Up the Creek

Lt. Commander Blakeney ( Actor )

... 1958

A Night to Remember

Thomas Andrews ( Actor )

... 1958

Up the Creek

Nelson ( Actor )

... 1958

The Camp on Blood Island

Father Paul Anjou ( Actor )

... 1958

Carve Her Name with Pride

Coding Expert ( Actor )

... 1958

The One That Got Away

R.A.F. Interrogator ( Actor )

... 1957

Fortune Is a Woman

Detective Insp. Barnes ( Actor )

... 1957

The Battle of the River Plate

Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires ( Actor )

... 1956

Wicked as They Come

Larry Buckham ( Actor )

... 1956

Dial 999

John Moffat ( Actor )

... 1955

Quentin Durward

Count De Dunois ( Actor )

... 1955

The End of the Affair

Smythe ( Actor )

... 1955

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Robert Walpole ( Actor )

... 1953

Sea Devils

Ragan ( Actor )

... 1953

The Hour of 13

Anderson ( Actor )

... 1952

Cry, the Beloved Country

Martens ( Actor )

... 1951

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Col. Caillard - POW Escort ( Actor )

... 1951

The Wooden Horse

Robbie ( Actor )

... 1950

Stop Press Girl

McPherson ( Actor )

... 1949

The Small Back Room

Till ( Actor )

... 1949