Cast & creator
Keith Michell
Best known for Murder, She Wrote, BBC Play of the Month, BBC Play of the Month
Keith Michell (born 1 December 1928, died 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor most famous for playing Henry VIII on several occasions; in the epic 1970 BBC drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII, the 1972 movie Henry VIII and his Six Wives and the 1996 BBC drama The Prince and the Pauper. In 1980 he scored a number 5 UK chart hit with Captain Beaky, a recital of a Jeremy Lloyd poem.
29
film credits
19
television credits
48
1950–2017 · acting roles
6.8
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (48)
Showing 48 of 48 credits
Murder, She Wrote
Dennis Stanton
1984
BBC Play of the Month
Caliban
1965BBC Play of the Month
Sir Robert Chiltern
1965
Theatre 625
Kain Sutherland
1964Film '72
Self
1971
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Geoffrey
1965
Sunday Night Theatre
Crown Prince Rudolf
1950
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Marc Antony
1978Festival
Frederic - Hugo
1963
The Julie Andrews Hour
Self
1972Late Night Theatre
Robert Browning
1972
Hallmark Hall of Fame
John
1951
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
1970
Armchair Theatre
Paul de Lussac
1956The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Baron Leopold von Ragastein / Sir Edward Dominey
1960
The Spread of the Eagle
Mark Antony
1963
The Story of David
Older David
1976
The Prince and the Pauper
King Henry VIII
1996
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Henry VIII
1972
The Executioner
Adam Booth
1970
Captain James Cook
James Cook
1988
The Gondoliers
Don Alhambra
1982
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Jacob
1974
House of Cards
Morillon
1968
Prudence and the Pill
Dr. Alan Huart
1968
Seven Seas to Calais
Malcolm Marsh
1962
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Self
2017
The Day Christ Died
Pontius Pilate
1980
The Story of David
Older David
1976
The Hellfire Club
Jason Caldwell
1961
The Deceivers
Colonel Wilson
1988
Ruddigore
Robin Oakapple
1982
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Paul Deverill
1958
An Ideal Husband
Sir Robert Chiltern
1969
Dangerous Exile
Colonel St. Gerard
1957
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
George Leybourne
1970
All Night Long
Cass Michaels
1962
Love/Loss
Joe
2010
The Pirates of Penzance
The Major General
1982
True as a Turtle
Harry Bell
1957Memorial Day
Marsh
1983
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
1962
Soldier in Love
John Churchill
1967
Julius Caesar
Marcus Antonius
1979
Grendel Grendel Grendel
The Shaper (voice)
1981
Moments
Peter Samuelson
1974
The Tenth Month
Matthew Poole
1979
My Brother Tom
Edward Quayle
1986