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
- 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
- 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
- Bird Fancier as Joe Desmond
- The Supergrass as Constable Collins
- Super Gran as Roly Roofless
- Which Side Are You On? as Narrator (voice)
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Ernst Röhm
- Three Up, Two Down as Sam Tyler
1984
- The Element of Crime as Fisher
- C.Q. as Norman
- Ordeal by Innocence as Inspector Huish
- Arthur's Hallowed Ground as Len
- Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry
- Memed My Hawk as Jabbar
- Oxbridge Blues as Curly Bonaventura
- Pull The Other One as Sidney Mundy
- Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime as Self - Actor/Fisher
1983
- Krull as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
- Gorky Park as Pasha
- Curse of the Pink Panther as Valencia Police Chief
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Magowan
- Privates on Parade as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
1982
- Chains as Eddie
- Smiley's People
- Pocketful of Dreams as Charlie
1981
- Masada as Vettius
- Private Schulz as Private Gerhard Schulz
1980
- The Elephant Man as Night Porter
1979
- The Knowledge as Gordon Weller
- Shoestring
- Black Island as Jack Daker
- Blue Remembered Hills as Peter
- Quadrophenia as Father
1978
- Red Shift as Thomas Venables
- Hanging Around as Hank
- Cold Harbour as Barrister at Party
- Hazell as Griffiths
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday as Michel
- The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Wallace Parnell
- The First Great Train Robbery as Burgess
- The Odd Job as Raymonde
1977
- The Professionals as Sergeant Garbett
- Last Summer as Oscar
- A Good Human Story
- This Year Next Year as Jack Shaw
1976
- Play Things as Frank
- Laurence Olivier Presents as Michel
- The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1975
- The Sweeney as Jimmy Fleet
- Three Men in a Boat as 2nd Porter
1974
- Playhouse as Frank
- Norma as Norma's Friend
- The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
- Pig Bin as Policeman
- The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
1973
- O Lucky Man! as Man at Stag Party
- That Sinking Feeling as Chopper
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Gorenflot
1972
- Crown Court as Simon Chase
- New Scotland Yard
1971
- Man Charged as Robert Delmonds
- Justice as Peter Rodwell
- See No Evil as Gypsy Tom
1970
- Play for Today as Peter
- Cry of the Banshee as Burke
- The Buttercup Chain as The Driver
- The Misfit as Mike Halloran
1969
- Hamlet as Captain
- The Betrayal as Tom
- Where's Jack? as Hogarth