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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 Febru…
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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's Filmography
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The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
as Self (archive footage)
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Bill Tanner (archive footage)
To the Devil a Daughter
as George de Grass
In Sickness and in Health
as Dr David Muray
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Chief of Staff Bill Tanner (uncredited)
Don't Be Like Brenda
as Narrator (uncredited)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as General Weidling
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Thomas More
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
No Poster
Still Life
as David
No Poster
The Company Man
as Mr. Lansing
No Poster
Macbeth
as Duncan
Cromwell
as Solicitor General
The Fifth Day of Peace
as Snow
The Fixer
as Ostrovsky
The Jokers
as Lt. Col. Paling
The Night of the Generals
as Hauser
The Connoisseur
as Rev. Adrian Tenterden
Von Ryan's Express
as Capt. Stein
The Man with Two Faces
as Jeff Driscoll
The Gorgon
as Professor Jules Heitz
The 7th Dawn
as Trumphey
Woman of Straw
as Solicitor
633 Squadron
as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
Man in the Middle
as Colonel Shaw
A Stitch in Time
as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
80,000 Suspects
as Clifford Preston
The £20,000 Kiss
as Sir Harold Trevitt
Jigsaw
as Clyde Burchard
Number Six
as Det. Supt. Hallett
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
No Love for Johnnie
as Dr. West
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Charles Gill
Peeping Tom
as Don Jarvis
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Father Desmaines
The Battle of the Sexes
as Detective
Testament of Orpheus
as Narrateur anglais (voix) (non crédité)
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Banister
Ticket to Happiness
The White Trap
as Inspector Walters
The 39 Steps
as Brown
Further Up the Creek
as Lt. Commander Blakeney
Three Crooked Men
as Shop Customer
A Night to Remember
as Thomas Andrews
Up the Creek
as Nelson
The Camp on Blood Island
as Father Paul Anjou
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Coding Expert
Steel Town
as Self - Commentator
No Poster
Chaucer's England
as The Theif
The One That Got Away
as R.A.F. Interrogator
No Poster
The End Begins
as Col. Ridgewell
Fortune Is a Woman
as Detective Insp. Barnes
The Battle of the River Plate
as Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
Wicked as They Come
as Larry Buckham
Link Span
as Narrator (voice)
Dial 999
as John Moffat
Quentin Durward
as Count De Dunois
The End of the Affair
as Smythe
The Crowded Day
as Eve's Husband
Front Page Story
as Kennedy
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Robert Walpole
Sea Devils
as Ragan
The Hour of 13
as Anderson
Plan for Coal
Ocean Terminal
as Narrator (voice)
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Martens
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
Family Portrait
as Narrator (voice)
The Wooden Horse
as Robbie
Stop Press Girl
as McPherson
The Small Back Room
as Till