Michael Goodliffe
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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.
Known for
Credits
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
as Chief of Staff Bill Tanner (uncredited)
Peeping Tom (1960)
as Don Jarvis
A Night to Remember (1958)
as Thomas Andrews
The Night of the Generals (1967)
as Hauser
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
as Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
as Narrateur anglais (voix) (non crédité)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
as Capt. Stein
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
as Detective
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
as Captain Banister
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
as George de Grass
The Gorgon (1964)
as Professor Jules Heitz
Cromwell (1970)
as Solicitor General
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
The White Trap (1959)
as Inspector Walters
Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
as Detective Insp. Barnes
The Fixer (1968)
as Ostrovsky
The Small Back Room (1949)
as Till
The One That Got Away (1957)
as R.A.F. Interrogator
633 Squadron (1964)
as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953)
as Robert Walpole
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
as General Weidling
The Fifth Day of Peace (1970)
as Snow
Woman of Straw (1964)
as Solicitor
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
as Coding Expert
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
as Charles Gill
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
as Father Paul Anjou
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
as Thomas More
The 39 Steps (1959)
as Brown
Three Crooked Men (1958)
as Shop Customer
Quentin Durward (1955)
as Count De Dunois
The End of the Affair (1955)
as Smythe
No Love for Johnnie (1961)
as Dr. West
Man in the Middle (1964)
as Colonel Shaw
A Stitch in Time (1963)
as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
Further Up the Creek (1958)
as Lt. Commander Blakeney
Jigsaw (1962)
as Clyde Burchard
James Bond: The First 21 Years (1983)
as Bill Tanner (archive footage)
The 7th Dawn (1964)
as Trumphey
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
as Martens
The Jokers (1967)
as Lt. Col. Paling
Family Portrait (1950)
as Narrator (voice)
The Hour of 13 (1952)
as Anderson
Sea Devils (1953)
as Ragan
The £20,000 Kiss (1962)
as Sir Harold Trevitt
Wicked as They Come (1956)
as Larry Buckham
Dial 999 (1955)
as John Moffat
The Wooden Horse (1950)
as Robbie
Link Span (1956)
as Narrator (voice)
Don't Be Like Brenda (1973)
as Narrator (uncredited)
Number Six (1962)
as Det. Supt. Hallett
Steel Town (1958)
as Self - Commentator
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
as Father Desmaines
Stop Press Girl (1949)
as McPherson
The Making of 'A Night to Remember' (1993)
as Self (archive footage)
Up the Creek (1958)
as Nelson
The Crowded Day (1954)
as Eve's Husband
The Madness: Scenes from the Spanish Civil War (1976)
as General Queipo de Llano
In Sickness and in Health (1975)
as Dr David Muray
Ticket to Happiness (1959)
Actor
Front Page Story (1954)
as Kennedy
80,000 Suspects (1963)
as Clifford Preston
Plan for Coal (1952)
Actor
Macbeth (1970)
as Duncan
The Connoisseur (1966)
as Rev. Adrian Tenterden
The Man with Two Faces (1964)
as Jeff Driscoll
The End Begins (1957)
as Col. Ridgewell
Chaucer's England (1958)
as The Theif
The Company Man (1970)
as Mr. Lansing
Still Life (1970)
as David
Ocean Terminal (1952)
as Narrator (voice)