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.
Known For
Credits
- 1976 · To the Devil a Daughter as George de Grass
- 1975 · In Sickness and in Health as Dr David Muray
- 1973 · Sam as Jack Barraclough
- 1973 · Don't Be Like Brenda as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1973 · Hitler: The Last Ten Days as General Weidling
- 1972 · The Protectors as De Santos
- 1972 · Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Thomas More
- 1971 · Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
- 1971 · Hine as
- 1970 · Still Life as David
- 1970 · The Company Man as Mr. Lansing
- 1970 · Macbeth as Duncan
- 1970 · Cromwell as Solicitor General
- 1970 · The 5th Day of Peace as Snow
- 1969 · Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Arthur de Crecy
- 1968 · The Fixer as Ostrovsky
- 1967 · Man in a Suitcase as
- 1967 · Callan as
- 1967 · The Jokers as Lt. Col. Paling
- 1967 · The Night of the Generals as Hauser
- 1966 · The Connoisseur as Rev. Adrian Tenterden
- 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as The Minister
- 1965 · Von Ryan's Express as Captain Stein
- 1964 · Troubled Waters as Jeff Driscoll
- 1964 · The Gorgon as Professor Jules Heitz
- 1964 · The 7th Dawn as Trumphey
- 1964 · Woman of Straw as Solicitor
- 1964 · 633 Squadron as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
- 1964 · Man in the Middle as Colonel Shaw
- 1963 · 80,000 Suspects as Clifford Preston
- 1962 · The £20,000 Kiss as Sir Harold Trevitt
- 1962 · The Saint as Dr. Quintus
- 1962 · Zero One as
- 1962 · Jigsaw as Clyde Burchard
- 1962 · Number Six as
- 1961 · The Day the Earth Caught Fire as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
- 1961 · No Love for Johnnie as Dr. West
- 1961 · The Avengers as
- 1960 · Maigret as
- 1960 · The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Charles Gill
- 1960 · Peeping Tom as Don Jarvis
- 1960 · Conspiracy of Hearts as Father Desmaines
- 1960 · The Battle of the Sexes as Detective
- 1960 · Testament of Orpheus as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1960 · Sink the Bismarck! as Captain Banister
- 1959 · Interpol Calling as Wolf Barstrom
- 1959 · The White Trap as Inspector Walters
- 1958 · Further Up the Creek as Lt. Commander Blakeney
- 1958 · Three Crooked Men as Shop Customer
- 1958 · A Night to Remember as Thomas Andrews
- 1958 · Up the Creek as Nelson
- 1958 · The Camp on Blood Island as Father Paul Anjou
- 1958 · Carve Her Name with Pride as Coding Expert
- 1958 · Chaucer's England as The Theif
- 1957 · The One That Got Away as R.A.F. Interrogator
- 1957 · Fortune Is a Woman as Detective Insp. Barnes
- 1956 · The Battle of the River Plate as Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
- 1956 · Wicked as They Come as Larry Buckham
- 1956 · Link Span as Narrator (voice)
- 1955 · Dial 999 as John Moffat
- 1955 · Quentin Durward as Count De Dunois
- 1955 · Dixon of Dock Green as Garfield Fenton
- 1955 · The End of the Affair as Smythe
- 1954 · Front Page Story as Kennedy
- 1953 · Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Robert Walpole
- 1953 · Sea Devils as Ragan
- 1952 · The Hour of 13 as Anderson
- 1952 · Plan for Coal as
- 1952 · Ocean Terminal as Narrator (voice)
- 1951 · Cry, the Beloved Country as Martens
- 1951 · Captain Horatio Hornblower as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
- 1950 · Family Portrait as Narrator (voice)
- 1950 · The Wooden Horse as Robbie
- 1949 · Stop Press Girl as McPherson
- 1949 · The Small Back Room as Till