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Michael Goodliffe

Michael Goodliffe

Actor

​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.

Born: October 1, 1914 in Bebington, Cheshire, England

Died: March 20, 1976 (Age 61)

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Michael Goodliffe  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
5.4
ActorRagan1953
Movie
6.7
ActorRobbie1950
Movie
7
ActorJeff Driscoll1964
Movie
6.4
ActorSmythe1955
Movie
5.7
ActorJohn Moffat1955
Movie
8
ActorThomas Andrews1958
Movie
5.9
ActorGeorge de Grass1976
Movie
6.5
ActorCaptain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires1956
Movie
7.9
ActorMr. Teevee (uncredited)1971
Movie
7.3
ActorCaptain Banister1960
Movie
6.4
ActorInspector Walters1959
Movie
6.9
ActorFather Desmaines1960
Movie
6.6
ActorDetective Insp. Barnes1957
Movie
7.2
ActorR.A.F. Interrogator1957
Movie
7.1
ActorJacko Jackson the Night Editor1961
Movie
6.4
ActorLarry Buckham1956
Movie
7
ActorClyde Burchard1962
Movie
6.7
ActorMartens1951
Movie
6.2
ActorProfessor Jules Heitz1964
Movie
6.2
ActorTrumphey1964
Movie
6.8
ActorDetective1960
Movie
6.5
ActorSquadron Leader Frank Adams1964
Movie
6.1
ActorSnow1970
Movie
6.5
ActorKennedy1954
Movie
6.3
ActorFather Paul Anjou1958
Movie
7.7
ActorDon Jarvis1960
Movie
6.2
ActorAnderson1952
Movie
6.6
ActorSolicitor1964
Movie
6.9
ActorTill1949
Movie
6.6
ActorOstrovsky1968
Movie
5.8
ActorClifford Preston1963
Movie
6.7
ActorDr. West1961
Movie
6.4
ActorColonel Shaw1964
Movie
6.6
ActorThomas More1972
Movie
6.9
ActorSolicitor General1970
Movie
6.1
ActorCount De Dunois1955
Movie
7.4
ActorEnglish Narrator (voice) (uncredited)1960
Movie
7.3
ActorCaptain Stein1965
Movie
7.4
ActorCol. Caillard - POW Escort1951
Movie
6
ActorMcPherson1949
Movie
5.4
ActorLt. Commander Blakeney1958
Movie
7
ActorHauser1967
Movie
7
ActorCoding Expert1958
Movie
6.4
ActorGeneral Weidling1973
Movie
6.8
Actor1962
Movie
6
ActorSir Harold Trevitt1962
Movie
5.6
ActorDavid1970
Movie
7.5
ActorDr David Muray1975
Movie
6.4
ActorLt. Col. Paling1967
Movie
5.2
ActorShop Customer1958
Movie
5.8
ActorNelson1958
Movie
6.1
ActorRobert Walpole1953
Movie
5.6
ActorDuncan
Movie
6.9
ActorCharles Gill1960
Movie
ActorMr. Lansing
Movie
ActorThe Theif
TV Show
8.2
ActorJack Barraclough
39 Episodes
1973-1975
TV Show
7.9
Actor13 Episodes1971-1971
TV Show
7.4
Actor1 Episode1967-1968
TV Show
8.1
Actor5 Episodes1967-1972
TV Show
6.7
ActorGarfield Fenton
1 Episode
1955-1976
TV Show
8.1
Actor1 Episode1961-1969
TV Show
7.3
ActorDr. Quintus
1 Episode
1962-1969
TV Show
Actor1 Episode1962-1965
TV Show
7.7
Actor1 Episode1959-1963
TV Show
6.5
ActorDe Santos
1 Episode
1972-1974
TV Show
7.1
ActorWolf Barstrom
1 Episode
1959
TV Show
7.5
ActorArthur de Crecy
1 Episode
1969-1971
TV Show
7.5
ActorThe Minister
1 Episode
1965-1973
Short Film
7.3
ActorNarrator (voice)1952
Short Film
5.9
ActorNarrator (voice)1950
Short Film
4
ActorNarrator (uncredited)1973
Short Film
Actor1952
Short Film
6.5
ActorNarrator (voice)1956
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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