Keith Michell
Born: 1926-12-01 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died: 2015-11-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Keith Michell (born 1 December 1928, died 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor most famous for playing Henry VIII on several occasions; in the epic 1970 BBC drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII, the 1972 movie Henry VIII and his Six Wives and the 1996 BBC drama The Prince and the Pauper. In 1980 he scored a number 5 UK chart hit with Captain Beaky, a recital of a Jeremy Lloyd poem.
Filmography
2017
- Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches as Self
2010
- Love/Loss as Joe
1996
- The Prince and the Pauper as King Henry VIII
1988
- The Deceivers as Colonel Wilson
- Captain James Cook as James Cook
1986
- My Brother Tom as Edward Quayle
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Dennis Stanton
1983
- Memorial Day as Marsh
1982
- Ruddigore as Robin Oakapple
- The Pirates of Penzance as The Major General
- The Gondoliers as Don Alhambra
1981
- Grendel Grendel Grendel as The Shaper (voice)
1980
- The Day Christ Died as Pontius Pilate
1979
- The Tenth Month as Matthew Poole
- Julius Caesar as Marcus Antonius
1976
- The Story of David as Older David
1974
- Moments as Peter Samuelson
- The Story of Jacob and Joseph as Jacob
1972
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Henry VIII
- The Julie Andrews Hour as Self
1971
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- The Executioner as Adam Booth
- Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town as George Leybourne
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII as Henry VIII of England
1969
- An Ideal Husband as Sir Robert Chiltern
1968
- Prudence and the Pill as Dr. Alan Huart
- House of Cards as Morillon
1967
- Soldier in Love as John Churchill
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Caliban
1964
- Theatre 625 as Kain Sutherland
1963
- Festival as Frederic - Hugo
- The Spread of the Eagle as Mark Antony
1962
- Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
- Seven Seas to Calais as Malcolm Marsh
- All Night Long as Cass Michaels
1961
- The Hellfire Club as Jason
1958
- The Gypsy and the Gentleman as Sir Paul Deverill
1957
- Dangerous Exile as Colonel St. Gerard
- True as a Turtle as Harry Bell
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Paul de Lussac
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as John
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Crown Prince Rudolf