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Michael Gwynn
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Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a Major and was Adjutant to the 2nd. Nyasaland Battalion, Kings African Rifles.
He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord Melbury who attempts to con £200 and a set of British Empire coins from the unsuspecting Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. Gwynn appears as Lord Melbury in the first ever episode of the series, "A Touch of Class".
Gwynn also appeared on several adaptations of plays on the Caedmon Records …
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a Major and was Adjutant to the 2nd. Nyasaland Battalion, Kings African Rifles. He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord Melbury who attempts to con £200 and a set of British Empire coins from the unsuspecting Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. Gwynn appears as Lord Melbury in the first ever episode of the series, "A Touch of Class". Gwynn also appeared on several adaptations of plays on the Caedmon Records label. Among them were Cyrano de Bergerac, in which he played Le Bret, and Julius Caesar, in which he played Casca. Both productions starred Ralph Richardson in the title role. He died on 29 January 1976 in London from a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Gwynn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
as Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
as Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
The Portable Phonograph
as The Music Lover
Spy Story
as Dawlish
A Coffin for the Bride
as Oliver Mason
Scars of Dracula
as The Priest
The Virgin Soldiers
as Lt Col Bromley-Pickering
The Deadly Bees
as Doctor Lang
Catch Us If You Can
as Hardingford
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Cornelius
The Horse Without a Head
as Gendarme
No Poster
Michelangelo
as Michelangelo (voice)
Jason and the Argonauts
as Hermes
Cleopatra
as Cimber
Some People
as Vicar
Barabbas
as Lazarus
Question 7
as Friedrich Gottfried
What a Carve Up!
as Malcolm Broughton
Village of the Damned
as Alan Bernard
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
as Prosecutor
The Doctor's Dilemma
as Dr. Blenkinsop
The Revenge of Frankenstein
as Karl
The Camp on Blood Island
as Tom Shields
Dunkirk
as Commander (Sheerness)
The Secret Place
as Steve Waring
The Runaway Bus
as 1st Transport Officer