Michael Gwynn
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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.
Known for
Credits
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
as Hermes
Cleopatra (1963)
as Cimber
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
as Cornelius
Barabbas (1961)
as Lazarus
Village of the Damned (1960)
as Alan Bernard
Scars of Dracula (1970)
as The Priest
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
as Karl
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves (2016)
as Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dunkirk (1958)
as Commander (Sheerness)
Some People (1962)
as Vicar
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
as Prosecutor
The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
as Lt Col Bromley-Pickering
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy (2005)
as Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Deadly Bees (1966)
as Doctor Lang
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
as Tom Shields
The Horse Without a Head (1964)
as Gendarme
Catch Us If You Can (1965)
as Hardingford
The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)
as Dr. Blenkinsop
What a Carve Up! (1961)
as Malcolm Broughton
Spy Story (1976)
as Dawlish
The Secret Place (1957)
as Steve Waring
A Coffin for the Bride (1974)
as Oliver Mason
The Runaway Bus (1953)
as 1st Transport Officer
Michelangelo (1964)
as Michelangelo (voice)
Question 7 (1961)
as Friedrich Gottfried
The Portable Phonograph (1977)
as The Music Lover