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