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
2000
- Metropolis as Andrew Kaplan
1999
- David Copperfield as Barkis
1997
- The Fix as Peter Campling
1996
- Streetwise as Narrator
1995
- Modern Times
- Dangerfield as Brian Taylor
- Richard III as 2nd Murderer
- Treasure Island as Billy Bones
1994
- Pirates as Chief Inspector Hornbeam
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
- Stanley and the Women as Bert Hutchinson
- Buddy's Song as Des
1990
- The Krays as George - Prisoner
- I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle as Inspector Cleaver
1989
- Asterix and the Big Fight as Crysus (voice- English version)
1987
- Withnail & I as Jake
- Little Dorrit as Mr. Merdle
1985
- EastEnders as Harry Slater
- Super Gran as Roly Roofless
- Three Up, Two Down as Sam Tyler
- Jenny's War as Schumann
- Late Starter as Jack Owen
- 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
- The Bill as George Stubbs
- 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
- 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
- C.Q. as Norman
1983
- Krull as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Magowan
- Gorky Park as Pasha
- Curse of the Pink Panther as Valencia Police Chief
- Privates on Parade as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
- Bloomfield as Billy Gibbs
1982
- Smiley's People as Detective Chief Inspector
- The Kenny Everett Television Show as Various
- Andy Robson as Jack Carnaby
- Pocketful of Dreams as Charlie
- Chains as Eddie
1981
- Masada as Vettius
- Private Schulz as Gerhard Schulz
- Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Stanley
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
- Send in the Girls as Jimmy
- The Odd Job as Raymonde
- The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Wallace Parnell
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday as Michel
- Cold Harbour as Barrister at Party
- Red Shift as Thomas Venables
- Hanging Around as Hank
1977
- The Professionals as Sergeant Garbett
- The Sunday Drama as Ralph Winters
- Premiere as Hank
- This Year Next Year as Jack Shaw
- Holding On as Charlie Wheelwright
- The Sound of Laughter as Ernie Randle
- Last Summer as Oscar
- A Good Human Story
1976
- The Ghosts of Motley Hall as Captain Narcissus Bullock
- Laurence Olivier Presents as Michel
- 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
- Pig Bin as Policeman
- The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
1973
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Gorenflot
- Second City Firsts as Policeman
- O Lucky Man! as Man at Stag Party
- And Now the Screaming Starts! as Drunk
- The Little Farm as Jack
- That Sinking Feeling as Chopper
1972
- Crown Court as Simon Chase
- New Scotland Yard as Al Farmer
- The Brothers as 2nd Patrolman
- Country Matters as Jack
- Adam Smith as Ben Davies
- Adult Fun as Garage Manager
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
- The Roads to Freedom as Lieutenant of Chasseurs
- Cry of the Banshee as Burke
- Albert and Victoria as Nigel Godfrey
- The Buttercup Chain as The Driver
1969
- Department S as Police Motorcyclist (uncredited)
- Hadleigh as Brian Ainsworth
- Parkin's Patch as Thomas
- The Betrayal as Tom
- The Best Things In Life as Jed Lucas
- Where's Jack? as Hogarth
- Hamlet as Captain
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Norma's friend
1960
- Coronation Street as Douglas Wormold
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Robert Delmonds