Michael Elphick
Born: 1946-09-19 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
Died: 2002-09-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.
Filmography
2003
- Out of Bounds as Lionel Stubbs
1999
- David Copperfield as Barkis
1997
- The Fix as Peter Campling
1996
- Streetwise as Narrator
1995
- Modern Times
- Richard III as 2nd Murderer
- Treasure Island as Billy Bones
1993
- Harry as Harry Salter
1992
- The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy as Dr. Nathaniel Bonner
1991
- Pebble Mill as Self
- Murder Most Horrid as Bill Todd
- Stanley and the Women as Bert Hutchinson
- Let Him Have It as Prison Officer Jack
- Buddy's Song as Des
1990
- The Krays as George - Prisoner
- I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle as Inspector Cleaver
1987
- Withnail & I as Jake
- Little Dorrit as Mr. Merdle
1985
- Super Gran as Roly Roofless
- Three Up, Two Down as Sam Tyler
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Ernst Röhm
- The Supergrass as Constable Collins
- Bird Fancier as Joe Desmond
- Which Side Are You On? as Narrator (voice)
1984
- Oxbridge Blues as Curly Bonaventura
- Ordeal by Innocence as Inspector Huish
- The Element of Crime as Fisher
- Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry
- Memed My Hawk as Jabbar
- C.Q. as Norman
- Pull The Other One as Sidney Mundy
- Arthur's Hallowed Ground as Len
- Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime as Self - Actor/Fisher
1983
- Krull as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Magowan
- Curse of the Pink Panther as Valencia Police Chief
- Gorky Park as Pasha
- Privates on Parade as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
1982
- Smiley's People as Detective Chief Inspector
- Pocketful of Dreams as Charlie
- Chains as Eddie
1981
- Masada as Vettius
- Private Schulz as Gerhard Schulz
1980
- The Elephant Man as Night Porter
- Cribb as Sol Herriott
1979
- Shoestring as Pete Johnson
- Quadrophenia as Father
- Blue Remembered Hills as Peter
- The Knowledge as Gordon Weller
- Black Island as Jack Daker
1978
- Hazell as Griffiths
- The First Great Train Robbery as Burgess
- Red Shift as Thomas Venables
- The Odd Job as Raymonde
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday as Michel
- The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Wallace Parnell
- Hanging Around as Hank
- Cold Harbour as Barrister at Party
1977
- The Professionals as Sergeant Garbett
- The Sunday Drama as Ralph Winters
- This Year Next Year as Jack Shaw
- A Good Human Story
- Last Summer as Oscar
1976
- Laurence Olivier Presents as Michel
- The Ghosts of Motley Hall as Captain Narcissus Bullock
- Play Things as Frank
1975
- The Sweeney as Jimmy Fleet
- Three Men in a Boat as 2nd Porter
1974
- Playhouse as Frank
- The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
- Norma as Norma's Friend
- The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
- Pig Bin as Policeman
1973
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Gorenflot
- O Lucky Man! as Man at Stag Party
- That Sinking Feeling as Chopper
- The Little Farm as Jack
1972
- Crown Court as Simon Chase
- New Scotland Yard as Al Farmer
- Country Matters as Jack
1971
- Justice as Peter Rodwell
- See No Evil as Gypsy Tom
- Man Charged as Robert Delmonds
1970
- Play for Today as Peter
- The Misfit as Mike Halloran
- Cry of the Banshee as Burke
- The Buttercup Chain as The Driver
1969
- Hamlet as Captain
- The Betrayal as Tom
- Where's Jack? as Hogarth
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Norma's friend
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Robert Delmonds