Cast

Michael Goodliffe

Acting

Cast

Michael Goodliffe

Known for

Acting

Born

1914-10-01

From

Bebington, Cheshire, England

Died

1976-03-20

Also known as Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor best known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts. Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire (now Merseyside), the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of World War II, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany. Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noel Coward's Post Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists. After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best known film was A Night to Remember (1958) in which he played Thomas Andrews, builder of the RMS Titanic. His best known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance. Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape, whilst a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Goodliffe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Michael Goodliffe

Michael Goodliffe

Biography

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

The Man with the Golden Gun

Peeping Tom

A Night to Remember

Von Ryan's Express

The Night of the Generals

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

The Battle of the River Plate

Link Span

To the Devil a Daughter

Testament of Orpheus

Sink the Bismarck!

633 Squadron

The Battle of the Sexes

Cromwell

The One That Got Away

The End of the Affair

The 7th Dawn

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

The Gorgon

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Woman of Straw

Carve Her Name with Pride

The Fixer

The Small Back Room

Sea Devils

Man in the Middle

No Love for Johnnie

Family Portrait

The Jokers

The Wooden Horse

The White Trap

James Bond: The First 21 Years

The Crowded Day

Steel Town

The Fifth Day of Peace

The 39 Steps

The Camp on Blood Island

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Fortune Is a Woman

Conspiracy of Hearts

Quentin Durward

Cry, the Beloved Country

Three Crooked Men

Ticket to Happiness

Further Up the Creek

Stop Press Girl

Don't Be Like Brenda

A Stitch in Time

Jigsaw

Up the Creek

The Hour of 13

Macbeth

The Making of 'A Night to Remember'

Wicked as They Come

The Man with Two Faces

80,000 Suspects

The Company Man

Dial 999

Number Six

The End Begins

The £20,000 Kiss

Chaucer's England

In Sickness and in Health

The Connoisseur

Front Page Story

Ocean Terminal

Still Life

Plan for Coal