Michael Goodliffe
Born October 01, 1914 (Age: 111)
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Bebington, Cheshire, England
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
1993
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 78
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
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as Bill Tanner
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Age: 60
Don't Be Like Brenda
1973
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as Narrator (uncredited)
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Age: 58
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
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as General Weidling
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Age: 58
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
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as Thomas More
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Age: 57
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971
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as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
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Age: 56
No Image
Still Life
1970
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as David
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Age: 56
No Image
The Company Man
1970
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as Mr. Lansing
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Age: 56
No Image
Macbeth
1970
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as Duncan
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Age: 55
Von Ryan's Express
1965
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as Captain Stein
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Age: 50
The Man with Two Faces
1964
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as Jeff Driscoll
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Age: 50
The Gorgon
1964
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as Professor Jules Heitz
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Age: 50
The 7th Dawn
1964
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as Trumphey
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Age: 49
Woman of Straw
1964
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as Solicitor
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Age: 49
633 Squadron
1964
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as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
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Age: 49
Man in the Middle
1964
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as Colonel Shaw
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Age: 49
A Stitch in Time
1963
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as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
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Age: 49
80,000 Suspects
1963
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as Clifford Preston
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Age: 48
The £20,000 Kiss
1962
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as Sir Harold Trevitt
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Age: 48
Jigsaw
1962
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as Clyde Burchard
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Age: 47
Number Six
1962
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as Det. Supt. Hallett
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Age: 47
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
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as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
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Age: 47
No Love for Johnnie
1961
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as Dr. West
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Age: 46
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
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as Charles Gill
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Age: 45
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960
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as Father Desmaines
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Age: 45
Peeping Tom
1960
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as Don Jarvis
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Age: 45
The Battle of the Sexes
1960
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as Detective
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Age: 45
Testament of Orpheus
1960
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as Narrateur anglais (voix) (non crédité)
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Age: 45
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
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as Captain Banister
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Age: 45
The White Trap
1959
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as Inspector Walters
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Age: 44
The 39 Steps
1959
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as Brown
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Age: 44
Further Up the Creek
1958
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as Lt. Commander Blakeney
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Age: 44
Three Crooked Men
1958
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as Shop Customer
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Age: 44
A Night to Remember
1958
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as Thomas Andrews
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Age: 43
Up the Creek
1958
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as Nelson
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Age: 43
The Camp on Blood Island
1958
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as Father Paul Anjou
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Age: 43
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958
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as Coding Expert
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Age: 43
Steel Town
1958
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as Self - Commentator
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Age: 43
No Image
Chaucer's England
1958
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as The Theif
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Age: 43
The Battle of the River Plate
1956
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as Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
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Age: 42
Wicked as They Come
1956
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as Larry Buckham
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Age: 41
Link Span
1956
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 41
Dial 999
1955
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as John Moffat
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Age: 41
Quentin Durward
1955
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as Count De Dunois
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Age: 40
The End of the Affair
1955
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as Smythe
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Age: 40
The Crowded Day
1954
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as Eve's Husband
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Age: 40
Front Page Story
1954
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as Kennedy
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Age: 39
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
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as Robert Walpole
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Age: 39
Sea Devils
1953
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as Ragan
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Age: 38
Family Portrait
1950
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 36
The Wooden Horse
1950
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as Robbie
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Age: 36