Cast & creator
Michael Kitchen
Best known for Play for Today, Play for Today, Minder
Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as DCS Foyle in the British TV series Foyle's War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kitchen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
70
film credits
64
television credits
133
1965–2025 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (134)
Showing 134 of 134 credits
Play for Today
Dick Foster
1970Play for Today
Alan
1970
Minder
Maltese Tony
1979
Screen Two
Block
1985
Tales of the Unexpected
Arthur
1979
BBC Play of the Month
Acaste
1965
ITV Playhouse
Tommy
1967
Playhouse
Rose S.J.
1974Playhouse
Peter
1974
The Professionals
Duffy
1977
A Touch of Frost
Jonathan Meyerbridge
1992
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Waller
1965
Foyle's War
DCS Foyle
2002Foyle's War
Consulting Producer
2002
Inspector Morse
Russell Clark
1987
Dalziel and Pascoe
Philip Swain
1996
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Herbert White
1973
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Pie in the Sky
Dudley Hooperman
1994
Lovejoy
David Herbert
1986
New Scotland Yard
Peter Coppard
1972
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse
1978
Screen One
Bill English
1989
Centre Play
The Student
1973
Churchill's People
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
1974
Thriller
George Newton
1973Thriller
Ian
1973
Between the Lines
Roger Boshier
1992
The World Is Not Enough
Tanner
1999
GoldenEye
Bill Tanner
1995
To Play the King
The King
1993
Country Matters
Henry Batley
1972
A History of Britain
Reader
2000
Fall of Eagles
Trotsky
1974
Lady Killers
Reverend Father M'Enery
1980
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Narrator (voice)
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Polixenes (voice)
1992
Harry Enfield and Chums
David the Director
1994
The Buccaneers
Sir Helmsley Thwaite
1995
Out of Africa
Berkeley Cole
1985Late Night Theatre
Paul
1972
My Week with Marilyn
Hugh Perceval
2011
Chancer
Roman
1990
The Advocates
1991Romance
Maurice Rossiter
1977
Proof of Life
Ian Havery
2000
Oliver Twist
Mr. Brownlow
1999
Rik Mayall Presents
Jeremy Swain
1993
Stay Lucky
1989
Beasts
Bob Curry
1976
Dracula A.D. 1972
Greg
1972
White Heat
Jack (present day)
2012
Brian Pern: A Life in Rock
John Farrow
2014
Fatherland
SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger
1994
Second Sight
2000
Reckless
Richard Crane
1997
Freud
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
1984
The Russia House
Clive
1990Private Affairs
D.H. Lawrence
1975Weekend Playhouse
Ed
1984Seven Faces of Woman
Archie
1974
The Hanging Gale
Capt. William Townsend
1995
Lorna Doone
Judge Jeffreys
2000
Dandelion Dead
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
1994
Mobile
David West
2007
The Secret World of Michael Fry
Herbie
2000
The Brontës of Haworth
Branwell Brontë
1973
The Justice Game
Tim Forsythe
1989
The Bunker
Rochus Misch
1981
Wilderness
Luther Adams
1996
Hostage
Fredericks
1992Sunnyside Farm
1997
Breaking Glass
Larner
1980
Mrs. Dalloway
Peter Walsh
1997
The Reporters
Alan
1972
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Bungabine
1971
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Lloyd George
2000
The Trial
Block
1993
Doomsday Gun
Doctor Christopher Cowley
1994
A Divorce
Laurence
1976
Enchanted April
George Briggs
1991
The Browning Version
Frank Hunter
1985
Sleepwalker
Ian
1975
The Guilty
Steven Vey
1992
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
Jeremy Swain
1995Benefactors
1989
Customer Service From Hell
1989
Hacks
Stanhope Feast
2012
No Man's Land
Foster
1978
King Lear
Edmund
1982
The War That Never Ends
2nd Athenian Representative
1991
The Holocaust on Trial
Prof. Richard Evans
2000
The Winter's Tale
Polixenes (voice)
1994Bedroom Farce
Nick
1980
The Kemps: All Gold
John Farrow
2023
Mrs. Weekley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
2025
The Kemps: All True
Harvey Stickles
2020
Lorna Doone
Judge Jeffrey
2001Is That Your Body, Boy
Waller
1970
The Comedy of Errors
Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse
1983
Once the Killing Starts
George Newton
1974
Kidnapped
William Reid
1995
New Year's Day
Robin
2001
The Railway Children
Father
2000The Secret World of Michael Fry
Herbie
2000
The Last Contract
John Gales alias Ray Lambert
1998Savages
Carlos Esquerdo
Alibi
Greg Brentwood
2003
School Play
Rose S J
1979
Caught on a Train
Peter
1980
The Monkey's Paw
Herbert White
1973Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Smiley Face
1989The Imp of the Perverse
The Student
1975
The Hanging Gale
Captain William Townsend
1995
Reckless: The Sequel
Richard Crane
1998The Four Beauties
Henry Batley
1973
Beasts: What Big Eyes
Bob Curry
1976
Wilderness
Luther Adams
1996A Room for the Winter
Stephen
1981
A Royal Scandal
Lord Malmesbury
1997
Brimstone and Treacle
Martin Taylor
1976
Crossing to Freedom
Maj. Diessen
1990
Fools of Fortune
Mr Quinton
1990
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Private Bamforth
1979
Hell's Angel
Dick Foster
1971
The Misanthrope
Acaste
1980
Home Run
Bill English
1989The Drilling Fields
Voice-over
1994Love Song
Young William Hatchard
1985
The Dive
Bricks
1989
Hamlet
Narrator
1992
Falling
Henry Kent
2005Adolf & Eva
Narrator (voice)
2002The Drilling Fields
Voice-over
1994