Cast & creator
Michael Goodliffe
Best known for The Avengers, The Wednesday Play, The Wednesday Play
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.
Also known as: Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe
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television credits
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1949–1993 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (110)
Showing 110 of 110 credits
The Avengers
1961
The Wednesday Play
Mr. Douglas
1964The Wednesday Play
Rev. Adrian Tenterden
1964
The Saint
Dr. Quintus
1962
BBC Play of the Month
Duncan
1965
Theatre 625
Dr Bergman
1964Theatre 625
Götz von Berlichingen
1964Theatre 625
Petrovykh
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Minister
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre
Sir Michael Decuman
1965
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
1971
Sunday Night Theatre
Udolphus McCluskey
1950
Maigret
1960
Dixon of Dock Green
Garfield Fenton
1955
The Protectors
De Santos
1972
Interpol Calling
Wolf Barstrom
1959
Callan
1967
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Man of the World
Galworth
1962
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Sir Harold Trevitt
1959Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Det. Supt. Hallett
1959
The Man with the Golden Gun
Chief of Staff Bill Tanner (uncredited)
1974
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Arthur de Crecy
1969W. Somerset Maugham
Lord Mountdrago
1969
The Power Game
Geoffrey Packard
1965Late Night Theatre
Maxwell
1972
A Night to Remember
Thomas Andrews
1958
Zero One
1962Somerset Maugham Hour
Lansbury
1960Knock on Any Door
Husband
1965
The Night of the Generals
Hauser
1967
Armchair Theatre
1956Armchair Theatre
Flemming
1956Armchair Theatre
Mr Lansing
1956Armchair Theatre
David
1956
Peeping Tom
Don Jarvis
1960
Von Ryan's Express
Capt. Stein
1965The Idiot
General Epanchin
1966
Sam
Jack Barraclough
1973
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Col. Caillard - POW Escort
1951
Judge Dee
Judge Dee
1969
The Battle of the River Plate
Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
1956
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
General Weidling
1973
The Small Back Room
Till
1949
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
1961
Testament of Orpheus
Narrateur anglais (voix) (non crédité)
1960Pere Goriot
Pere Goriot
1971
Sink the Bismarck!
Captain Banister
1960
To the Devil a Daughter
George de Grass
1976
Armchair Cinema
Dr. David Murray
1974
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Thomas More
1972
Man in the Middle
Colonel Shaw
1964
The One That Got Away
R.A.F. Interrogator
1957
Cromwell
Solicitor General
1970Inheritance
Mr. Oldroyd
1967
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Charles Gill
1960
The Gorgon
Professor Jules Heitz
1964
633 Squadron
Squadron Leader Frank Adams
1964
The Battle of the Sexes
Detective
1960
The 39 Steps
Brown
1959
The Fifth Day of Peace
Snow
1970
Woman of Straw
Solicitor
1964
The Hour of 13
Anderson
1952
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Bill Tanner (archive footage)
1983
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Robert Walpole
1953
Carve Her Name with Pride
Coding Expert
1958
The End of the Affair
Smythe
1955
Sea Devils
Ragan
1953
Wicked as They Come
Larry Buckham
1956
Hine
1971
The Camp on Blood Island
Father Paul Anjou
1958
A Stitch in Time
Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
1963
No Love for Johnnie
Dr. West
1961
The 7th Dawn
Trumphey
1964
Up the Creek
Nelson
1958
Further Up the Creek
Lt. Commander Blakeney
1958
Steel Town
Self - Commentator
1958
The Fixer
Ostrovsky
1968
Quentin Durward
Count De Dunois
1955
Jigsaw
Clyde Burchard
1962
Fortune Is a Woman
Detective Insp. Barnes
1957
Cry, the Beloved Country
Martens
1951
The Jokers
Lt. Col. Paling
1967
Family Portrait
Narrator (voice)
1950
Three Crooked Men
Shop Customer
1958
The Crowded Day
Eve's Husband
1954
Link Span
Narrator (voice)
1956
Cities At War
Self - Narrator
1968
The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
Self (archive footage)
1993
In Sickness and in Health
Dr David Muray
1975
The White Trap
Inspector Walters
1959
The £20,000 Kiss
Sir Harold Trevitt
1962
Conspiracy of Hearts
Father Desmaines
1960
Number Six
Det. Supt. Hallett
1962The End Begins
Col. Ridgewell
1957
The Wooden Horse
Robbie
1950
80,000 Suspects
Clifford Preston
1963
Don't Be Like Brenda
Narrator (uncredited)
1973
Stop Press Girl
McPherson
1949
Front Page Story
Kennedy
1954Chaucer's England
The Theif
1958
Dial 999
John Moffat
1955Still Life
David
1970
Ticket to Happiness
1959Macbeth
Duncan
1970The Company Man
Mr. Lansing
1970
The Man with Two Faces
Jeff Driscoll
1964
The Connoisseur
Rev. Adrian Tenterden
1966
Ocean Terminal
Narrator (voice)
1952