Mike Pratt
Born: 1931-06-07 in London, England, UK
Died: 1976-07-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Mike Pratt was a British actor, musician, songwriter and screenwriter. He commenced his career in showbusiness during the skiffle boom of the 1950s, playing and writing music alongside friends Tommy Steele and Lionel Bart. Bart and Pratt received the 1957 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for Steele's hit Little White Bull, and Pratt won his second Ivor Novello for a Handful of Songs, which he co-wrote with Steele. Despite several big screen and theatre credits including a stint with the RSC, Pratt was (and remains) best known for his role as Jeff Randall in the late 1960s ITC detective series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) alongside Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. Mike Pratt died from lung cancer in July 1976, aged 45. His son is Guy Pratt, a session bass guitarist best known for his live performances with Pink Floyd (since 1987) and offshoot solo projects with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
Filmography
1975
1974
- Father Brown
- Swallows and Amazons as Mr Dixon
1973
- The Vault of Horror as Clive (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
- Assassin as Matthew
1972
- Crown Court as Richard Frost
- The Adventures of Black Beauty as Simey
- Sitting Target as Prison Warder Accomplice
- Anywhere but England as Stanley
1971
1970
- UFO as Clem Mason
- Goodbye Gemini as Rod Barstowe
1969
- Hadleigh
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Jeff Randall
- Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt as Jack Straw
1968
- The Champions as Raven
- The Fixer as Father Anastasy
- A Dandy in Aspic as Greff
1967
- Callan
- Man in a Suitcase
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Dr. O'Connell
- Robbery as Bob (uncredited)
- The Gentleman Caller as Clack
1965
- Out of the Unknown as Otto Henck
- Gideon's Way as Jensen
- The Man in Room 17 as Jack Simpson
- Repulsion as Workman
- The Party's Over as Geronimo
- Time in Advance as Otto Henck
1964
- Theatre 625 as 'Cass' Cassidy
- Redcap as Sergeant Bailey
- This Is My Street as Sid Graham
- Face of a Stranger as Harry
1962
- The Saint as Jeff Peterson
- Out of This World as Mac
1959
1958
- The Duke Wore Jeans ... (Story)