Michael Gwynn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-11-30 (60 years old)

Deathday

1976-01-29

Place of Birth

Bath, Somerset, England, U.K.

Michael Gwynn

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a Major and was Adjutant to the 2nd. Nyasaland Battalion, Kings African Rifles. He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord Melbury who attempts to con £200 and a set of British Empire coins from the unsuspecting Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. Gwynn appears as Lord Melbury in the first ever episode of the series, "A Touch of Class". Gwynn also appeared on se...

Acting

1960

Village of the Damned

as Alan Bernard

1963

Cleopatra

as Cimber

1970

Scars of Dracula

as The Priest

1958

1959

The Doctor's Dilemma

as Dr. Blenkinsop

1961

Question 7

as Friedrich Gottfried

1961

What a Carve Up!

as Malcolm Broughton

1976

Spy Story

as Dawlish

1962

Some People

as Vicar

1977

The Portable Phonograph

as The Music Lover

1957

The Secret Place

as Steve Waring

2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

as Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited)

1969

The Virgin Soldiers

as Lt Col Bromley-Pickering

1961

Barabbas

as Lazarus

1965

Catch Us If You Can

as Hardingford

1974

A Coffin for the Bride

as Oliver Mason

1958

Dunkirk

as Commander (Sheerness)

1953

The Runaway Bus

as 1st Transport Officer

1966

The Deadly Bees

as Doctor Lang

1964

Michelangelo

as Michelangelo (voice)

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