Keith Michell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-12-01 (89 years old)

Deathday

2015-11-20

Place of Birth

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Keith Michell

Biography

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.

Acting

1968

House of Cards

as Morillon

1968

Prudence and the Pill

as Dr. Alan Huart

1988

The Deceivers

as Colonel Wilson

1962

All Night Long

as Cass Michaels

1976

The Story of David

as Older David

1982

The Gondoliers

as Don Alhambra

1982

The Pirates Of Penzance

as The Major General

1982

Ruddigore

as Robin Oakapple

1974

Moments

as Peter Samuelson

1961

1958

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

as Sir Paul Deverill

1962

Seven Seas to Calais

as Malcolm Marsh

1970

The Executioner

as Adam Booth

1962

Wuthering Heights

as Heathcliff

1979

Julius Caesar

as Marcus Antonius

1957

Dangerous Exile

as Colonel St. Gerard

2010

Love/Loss

as Joe

1967

Soldier in Love

as John Churchill

1969

An Ideal Husband

as Sir Robert Chiltern

1986

My Brother Tom

as Edward Quayle

1983

Memorial Day

as Marsh

1980

The Day Christ Died

as Pontius Pilate

1979

The Tenth Month

as Matthew Poole

1957

True as a Turtle

as Harry Bell

1981

Grendel Grendel Grendel

as The Shaper (voice)

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