Michael Goodliffe

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-10-01 (62 years old)

Deathday

1976-03-20

Place of Birth

Bebington, Cheshire, England

Michael Goodliffe

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 Lieu...

Acting

1973

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as General Weidling

1958

A Night to Remember

as Thomas Andrews

1960

Peeping Tom

as Don Jarvis

1965

Von Ryan's Express

as Captain Stein

1970

Cromwell

as Solicitor General

1976

To the Devil a Daughter

as George de Grass

1964

The Gorgon

as Professor Jules Heitz

1961

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor

1960

Testament of Orpheus

as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1960

1955

Dial 999

as John Moffat

1956

Wicked as They Come

as Larry Buckham

1964

633 Squadron

as Squadron Leader Frank Adams

1975

In Sickness and in Health

as Dr David Muray

1966

The Connoisseur

as Rev. Adrian Tenterden

1957

The One That Got Away

as R.A.F. Interrogator

1956

The Battle of the River Plate

as Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires

1958

Three Crooked Men

as Shop Customer

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

as Captain Banister

1962

Jigsaw

as Clyde Burchard

1955

Quentin Durward

as Count De Dunois

1964

The 7th Dawn

as Trumphey

1968

The Fixer

as Ostrovsky

1967

The Jokers

as Lt. Col. Paling

1958

The Camp on Blood Island

as Father Paul Anjou

1958

Up the Creek

as Nelson

1953

Sea Devils

as Ragan

1957

Fortune Is a Woman

as Detective Insp. Barnes

1964

The Man with Two Faces

as Jeff Driscoll

1953

1949

Stop Press Girl

as McPherson

1960

Conspiracy of Hearts

as Father Desmaines

1963

80,000 Suspects

as Clifford Preston

1950

1952

The Hour of 13

as Anderson

1950

Family Portrait

as Narrator (voice)

1959

The White Trap

as Inspector Walters

1973

Don't Be Like Brenda

as Narrator (uncredited)

1951

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

as Col. Caillard - POW Escort

1964

Woman of Straw

as Solicitor

1962

The £20,000 Kiss

as Sir Harold Trevitt

1970

Macbeth

as Duncan

1960

1970

The Company Man

as Mr. Lansing

1971

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)

1958

Chaucer's England

as The Theif

1958

Further Up the Creek

as Lt. Commander Blakeney

1954

1961

1970

Still Life

as David

1964

Man in the Middle

as Colonel Shaw

1952

Ocean Terminal

as Narrator (voice)

1956

Link Span

as Narrator (voice)

1958

1959

The 39 Steps

as Brown

1993

The Making of 'A Night to Remember'

as Self (archive footage)

1957

The End Begins

as Col. Ridgewell

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