Michael Goodliffe
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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.
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Fotos
Películas (72)
The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
1993 · Self (archive footage)
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983 · Bill Tanner (archive footage)
The Madness: Scenes from the Spanish Civil War
1976 · General Queipo de Llano
To the Devil a Daughter
1976 · George de Grass
In Sickness and in Health
1975 · Dr David Muray
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · Chief of Staff Bill Tanner (uncredited)
Don't Be Like Brenda
1973 · Narrator (uncredited)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973 · General Weidling
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972 · Thomas More
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971 · Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
Still Life
1970 · David
The Company Man
1970 · Mr. Lansing
Macbeth
1970 · Duncan
Cromwell
1970 · Solicitor General
The Fifth Day of Peace
1970 · Snow
The Fixer
1968 · Ostrovsky
The Jokers
1967 · Lt. Col. Paling
The Night of the Generals
1967 · Hauser
The Connoisseur
1966 · Rev. Adrian Tenterden
Von Ryan's Express
1965 · Capt. Stein
The Man with Two Faces
1964 · Jeff Driscoll
The Gorgon
1964 · Professor Jules Heitz
The 7th Dawn
1964 · Trumphey
Woman of Straw
1964 · Solicitor
633 Squadron
1964 · Squadron Leader Frank Adams
Man in the Middle
1964 · Colonel Shaw
A Stitch in Time
1963 · Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
80,000 Suspects
1963 · Clifford Preston
The £20,000 Kiss
1962 · Sir Harold Trevitt
Jigsaw
1962 · Clyde Burchard
Number Six
1962 · Det. Supt. Hallett
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961 · Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
No Love for Johnnie
1961 · Dr. West
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 · Charles Gill
Peeping Tom
1960 · Don Jarvis
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960 · Father Desmaines
The Battle of the Sexes
1960 · Detective
Testament of Orpheus
1960 · Narrateur anglais (voix) (non crédité)
Sink the Bismarck!
1960 · Captain Banister
Ticket to Happiness
1959
The White Trap
1959 · Inspector Walters
The 39 Steps
1959 · Brown
Further Up the Creek
1958 · Lt. Commander Blakeney
Three Crooked Men
1958 · Shop Customer
A Night to Remember
1958 · Thomas Andrews
Up the Creek
1958 · Nelson
The Camp on Blood Island
1958 · Father Paul Anjou
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958 · Coding Expert
Steel Town
1958 · Self - Commentator
Chaucer's England
1958 · The Theif
The One That Got Away
1957 · R.A.F. Interrogator
The End Begins
1957 · Col. Ridgewell
Fortune Is a Woman
1957 · Detective Insp. Barnes
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
Wicked as They Come
1956 · Larry Buckham
Link Span
1956 · Narrator (voice)
Dial 999
1955 · John Moffat
Quentin Durward
1955 · Count De Dunois
The End of the Affair
1955 · Smythe
The Crowded Day
1954 · Eve's Husband
Front Page Story
1954 · Kennedy
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953 · Robert Walpole
Sea Devils
1953 · Ragan
The Hour of 13
1952 · Anderson
Plan for Coal
1952
Ocean Terminal
1952 · Narrator (voice)
Cry, the Beloved Country
1951 · Martens
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951 · Col. Caillard - POW Escort
Family Portrait
1950 · Narrator (voice)
The Wooden Horse
1950 · Robbie
Stop Press Girl
1949 · McPherson
The Small Back Room
1949 · Till
Series (33)
Armchair Cinema
1974 · Dr. David Murray
Sam
1973 · Jack Barraclough
The Protectors
1972 · De Santos
Late Night Theatre
1972 · Maxwell
Pere Goriot
1971 · Pere Goriot
Hine
1971
The Woodlanders
1970 · George Melbury
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969 · Arthur de Crecy
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Lord Mountdrago
Judge Dee
1969 · Judge Dee
Cities At War
1968 · Self - Narrator
Inheritance
1967 · Mr. Oldroyd
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Callan
1967
The Idiot
1966 · General Epanchin
The Power Game
1965 · Geoffrey Packard
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Duncan
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · The Minister, Sir Michael Decuman
Knock on Any Door
1965 · Husband
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Ivor Brangwyn
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Mr. Douglas, Rev. Adrian Tenterden
Theatre 625
1964 · Dr Bergman, Götz von Berlichingen, Petrovykh
The Saint
1962 · Dr. Quintus
Zero One
1962
Man of the World
1962 · Galworth
The Avengers
1961
Maigret
1960
Somerset Maugham Hour
1960 · Lansbury
Interpol Calling
1959 · Wolf Barstrom
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
1959 · Sir Harold Trevitt, Det. Supt. Hallett
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Flemming, Mr Lansing, David
Dixon of Dock Green
1955 · Garfield Fenton
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Udolphus McCluskey