Michael Kilgarriff
Born: 1937-06-16 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Michael Kilgarriff (born 16 June 1937)is a British actor, author and pianist from Brighton. As an actor, he is well known for his rich voice and height. His film and television roles include The Dark Crystal (1982) as the General, and the Doctor Who serials The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), Robot (1974–75) and Attack of the Cybermen (1985). At six feet five inches (1.96 m) tall, he is sought for certain roles, such as the Cyber Controller in Doctor Who, a role he played in 1967 and 1985. He appeared in the same series as an Ogron (1973) and as the eponymous K1 Robot in the story Robot (1974–75). He returned to play the K1 robot in the Big Finish Productions Bernice Summerfield audio adventure The Relics of Jegg-Sau. He did voice work for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix as Obelix, the Jim Henson movie The Dark Crystal (1982) as SkekUng, the Garthim master (Named "The General" in the movie), was film director Joe Steiner in the UFO episode "Conflict", and played the part of the Green King in the BBC Television serial The Moon Stallion (1978). In 1979, he provided voices for several characters in the cult television adventure series "Monkey" when it was dubbed into English. These were invariably gruff, often villainous characters, including warlords and demons.
Filmography
2011
- The Story of Music Hall as Self
2008
- Albert's Speech as Voice of God
- Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story as Cyberman Controller (archive footage)
2007
- Snow White: The Sequel as The Ogre (voice)
- Are Friends Electric?
2002
- Tipping the Velvet as Music Hall Chairman
1999
1995
1988
- The Storyteller as Lion (voice)
1985
- Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen as Cyber Controller
1983
- Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead as K1 Robot (archive footage)
1982
- The Dark Crystal as General (voice)
1977
- The Upchat Line as Husband
1975
- Doctor Who: Robot as The Robot
1973
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space as Second Ogron
1970
- UFO as Steiner
1967
- Camelot as Sir Paul (uncredited)
- Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen as Cyber Controller
1964
- Theatre 625 as O'Grady
1963
- Doctor Who
- We Joined the Navy as Claude
- Taxi! as Ron Farnes
- Taxi! as Ron Farnes
1934
- Wings Over Everest as Narrator