Michael Goodliffe

Known for ActingBorn 1914-10-01Died 1976-03-20Bebington, Cheshire, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Connoisseur

The Power Game

The Idiot

The Man with Two Faces

The £20,000 Kiss

Link Span

The Company Man

Front Page Story

The Avengers

A Night to Remember

Sam

Testament of Orpheus

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Peeping Tom

The Saint

A Stitch in Time

Jigsaw

Man in a Suitcase

Interpol Calling

Theatre 625

80,000 Suspects

Man of the World

The White Trap

Armchair Cinema

Maigret

Von Ryan's Express

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Still Life

Cities At War

Callan

Sink the Bismarck!

James Bond: The First 21 Years

The Night of the Generals

Conspiracy of Hearts

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The One That Got Away

Fortune Is a Woman

The Wooden Horse

Cromwell

No Love for Johnnie

The Camp on Blood Island

The Small Back Room

Three Crooked Men

The 7th Dawn

The Man with the Golden Gun

Further Up the Creek