Michael York
Born March 27, 1942 (Age: 84)
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Fulmer, England, UK
Biography
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976). In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001). In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976).
In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001).
In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
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Filmography
The Mill and the Cross
2011
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as Nicolaes Jonghelinck
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Age: 68
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
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as Prime #1 (voice)
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Age: 67
Flatland
2007
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as Spherius (voice)
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Age: 64
Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion
2006
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as Narrator
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Age: 64
No Image
Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen of the Kalahari
2006
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as
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Age: 64
The Hobart Shakespeareans
2005
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as Self
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Age: 63
William Powell: A True Gentleman
2005
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as Narrator
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Age: 63
Moscow Heat
2004
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as Roger Chambers
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Age: 62
Freedom from Despair
2004
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as Voice Over
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Age: 62
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 62
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
2002
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 60
Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002
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as Basil Exposition
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Age: 60
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
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as Stone Alexander
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Age: 59
Borstal Boy
2001
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as Joyce
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Age: 58
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
2000
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as Pterano (voice)
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Age: 58
One Hell of a Guy
2000
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as The Devil
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Age: 58
Behind the Scenes of 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'
1999
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as Self
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Age: 57
The Omega Code
1999
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as Stone Alexander
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Age: 57
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
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as Basil Exposition
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Age: 57
A Knight in Camelot
1998
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as King Arthur
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Age: 56
The Treat
1998
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as Simon
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Age: 56
54
1998
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as Ambassador
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Age: 56
Wrongfully Accused
1998
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as Hibbing Goodhue
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Age: 56
Perfect Little Angels
1998
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as Calvin Lawrence
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Age: 56
Merchants of Venus
1998
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as Alex Jakoff
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Age: 55
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998
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as David 'Arthur' McIntyre (arcive footage, uncredited)
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Age: 55
Lovers and Liars
1998
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as Dick
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Age: 55
A Christmas Carol
1997
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as Bob Cratchit (voice)
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Age: 55
The Ripper
1997
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as Sir Charles Warren
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Age: 55
The Long Way Home
1997
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as (voice)
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Age: 55
Un coup de baguette magique
1997
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as Ilya
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Age: 55
Dark Planet
1997
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as Winter
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Age: 55
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
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as Basil Exposition
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Age: 55
Austin Powers' Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club
1997
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as The Swingers Club
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Age: 55
Goodbye America
1997
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as Senator Bladon
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Age: 54
The Ring
1996
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as Walmar von Gotthard
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Age: 54
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
1996
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as Edmund
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Age: 54
Basketball Mozart
1996
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 53
Discretion Assured
1994
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as Trevor
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Age: 52
David Copperfield
1993
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as Edward Murdstone (voice)
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Age: 51
No Image
The Magic Paintbrush
1993
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as The King (voice)
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Age: 51
Wide Sargasso Sea
1993
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as Paul Mason
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Age: 51
Rochade
1992
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as Paul Grumbach
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Age: 49
Duel of Hearts
1992
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as Gervaise Warlingham
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Age: 49
The Long Shadow
1992
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as
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Age: 49
Eline Vere
1991
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as Lawrence St. Clare
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Age: 48
The Wanderer
1991
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as Saxon Warrior
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Age: 48
Night of the Fox
1990
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as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel / Caporal Berger
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Age: 48
Come See the Paradise
1990
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as Dance Hall Band
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Age: 48
The Heat of the Day
1989
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as Robert
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Age: 47
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
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as D'Artagnan
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Age: 47
The Lady and the Highwayman
1988
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as King Charles II
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Age: 46
The Four Minute Mile
1988
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as Franz Stampfl
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Age: 46
Midnight Cop
1988
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as Karstens
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Age: 46
Phantom of Death
1988
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as Robert Dominici
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Age: 45
Lethal Obsession
1987
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as Dr. Proper
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Age: 45
Are You My Mother?
1986
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as Chet Gordon
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Age: 43
The White Lions
1981
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as Chris McBride
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Age: 39
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
1981
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as Beast (voice)
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Age: 39
No Image
Beauty and the Beast
1981
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as The Beast (voice)
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Age: 39
Final Assignment
1980
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as Lyosha Petrov
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Age: 38
Formula 1 - Speed fever
1978
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as Self
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Age: 36
Fedora
1978
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as Self
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Age: 36
True Patriot
1977
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as Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Age: 35
Logan's Run
1976
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as Logan
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Age: 34
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
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as Count Andrenyi
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Age: 32
The Four Musketeers
1974
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as D'Artagnan
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Age: 32
Great Expectations
1974
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as Pip
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Age: 31
The Three Musketeers
1973
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as D'Artagnan
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Age: 31
England Made Me
1973
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as Anthony Farrant
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Age: 31
Lost Horizon
1973
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as George Conway
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Age: 30
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
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as
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Age: 30
Cabaret
1972
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as Brian Roberts
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Age: 29
The Recreation of an Era
1972
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as Self
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Age: 29
Alfred the Great
1969
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as Guthrum
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Age: 27
Justine
1969
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as Darley
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Age: 27
The Guru
1969
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as Tom Pickle
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Age: 26
Romeo and Juliet
1968
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as Tybalt
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Age: 26
Red, White, and Zero
1968
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as Acrobat
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Age: 25