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Michael Goodliffe
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Michael Goodliffe
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1914-10-01,Bebington, Cheshire, England
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

6.1

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973-04-19

A Night to Remember

7.6

A Night to Remember
1958-07-03

7.4

Peeping Tom
1960-05-16

Von Ryan's Express

7.1

Von Ryan's Express
1965-06-23

6.5

Cromwell
1970-07-16

To the Devil a Daughter

5.6

To the Devil a Daughter
1976-03-04

6.3

The Gorgon
1964-10-18

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

6.8

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961-11-01

The Night of the Generals

6.8

The Night of the Generals
1967-01-29

Testament of Orpheus

7.7

Testament of Orpheus
1960-02-18

The Battle of the Sexes

6.7

The Battle of the Sexes
1960-02-25

4.6

Dial 999
1955-12-01

Wicked as They Come

5.5

Wicked as They Come
1956-05-22

6.1

633 Squadron
1964-04-06

In Sickness and in Health

0

In Sickness and in Health
1975-05-21

The Connoisseur

0

The Connoisseur
1966-05-24

The Small Back Room

6.7

The Small Back Room
1949-02-21

The One That Got Away

7

The One That Got Away
1957-11-22

The Battle of the River Plate

6.2

The Battle of the River Plate
1956-10-30

Three Crooked Men

5

Three Crooked Men
1958-10-01

Sink the Bismarck!

6.8

Sink the Bismarck!
1960-02-11

The 5th Day of Peace

5.3

The 5th Day of Peace
1970-04-17

7.3

Jigsaw
1962-08-21

Quentin Durward

6

Quentin Durward
1955-09-09

6.4

The 7th Dawn
1964-09-02

The End of the Affair

5.7

The End of the Affair
1955-02-24

5.8

The Fixer
1968-12-08

6.029

The Jokers
1967-05-15

The Camp on Blood Island

6.6

The Camp on Blood Island
1958-04-15

5.8

Up the Creek
1958-05-13

5.8

Sea Devils
1953-04-12

Fortune Is a Woman

6.767

Fortune Is a Woman
1957-03-13

Troubled Waters

0

Troubled Waters
1964-12-01

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

5.1

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953-10-26

Stop Press Girl

5.571

Stop Press Girl
1949-06-02

Conspiracy of Hearts

6.7

Conspiracy of Hearts
1960-04-07

80,000 Suspects

6.5

80,000 Suspects
1963-08-15

The Wooden Horse

6.796

The Wooden Horse
1950-10-16

5.7

The Hour of 13
1952-11-21

Family Portrait

5.8

Family Portrait
1950-12-01

5.8

The White Trap
1959-08-01

Don't Be Like Brenda

3.2

Don't Be Like Brenda
1973-05-27

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

6.9

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951-04-10

6.1

Woman of Straw
1964-04-28

0

Number Six
1962-04-01

The £20,000 Kiss

0

The £20,000 Kiss
1962-12-31

0

Macbeth
1970-09-20

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

6.4

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960-05-28

0

Plan for Coal
1952-01-02

The Company Man

0

The Company Man
1970-11-06

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

7.5

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971-06-29

Chaucer's England

0

Chaucer's England
1958-01-01

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

5.8

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972-07-13

Further Up the Creek

6

Further Up the Creek
1958-10-28

Cry, the Beloved Country

6.1

Cry, the Beloved Country
1951-11-16

Front Page Story

0

Front Page Story
1954-03-15

No Love for Johnnie

6.25

No Love for Johnnie
1961-02-14

0

Still Life
1970-11-17

Man in the Middle

6.425

Man in the Middle
1964-01-27

6

Ocean Terminal
1952-01-02

8.5

Link Span
1956-01-02

Carve Her Name with Pride

5.7

Carve Her Name with Pride
1958-02-18

6.2

The 39 Steps
1959-03-13

7.7

The Avengers
1961-01-07

5.6

The Protectors
1972-09-29

7.3

The Saint
1962-10-04

7

Callan
1967-07-08

Dixon of Dock Green

5.3

Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09

Interpol Calling

6.7

Interpol Calling
1959-09-13

Man in a Suitcase

7

Man in a Suitcase
1967-09-27

6

Zero One
1962-10-03

6.9

Maigret
1960-10-31

0

Hine
1971-04-07

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

7

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
1969-09-21

5

Sam
1973-06-12

Thirty-Minute Theatre

3.8

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965-10-07

5

Inheritance
1967-09-29