Michael Goodliffe
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.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
(General Weidling)
A Night to Remember
(Thomas Andrews)
Peeping Tom
(Don Jarvis)
Von Ryan's Express
(Captain Stein)
Cromwell
(Solicitor General)
To the Devil a Daughter
(George de Grass)
The Gorgon
(Professor Jules Heitz)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(Jacko Jackson the Night Editor)
The Night of the Generals
(Hauser)
Testament of Orpheus
(English Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
The Battle of the Sexes
(Detective)
Dial 999
(John Moffat)
Wicked as They Come
(Larry Buckham)
633 Squadron
(Squadron Leader Frank Adams)
In Sickness and in Health
(Dr David Muray)
The Connoisseur
(Rev. Adrian Tenterden)
The Small Back Room
(Till)
The One That Got Away
(R.A.F. Interrogator)
The Battle of the River Plate
(Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires)
Three Crooked Men
(Shop Customer)
Sink the Bismarck!
(Captain Banister)
The 5th Day of Peace
(Snow)
Jigsaw
(Clyde Burchard)
Quentin Durward
(Count De Dunois)
The 7th Dawn
(Trumphey)
The End of the Affair
(Smythe)
The Fixer
(Ostrovsky)
The Jokers
(Lt. Col. Paling)
The Camp on Blood Island
(Father Paul Anjou)
Up the Creek
(Nelson)
Sea Devils
(Ragan)
Fortune Is a Woman
(Detective Insp. Barnes)
Troubled Waters
(Jeff Driscoll)
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
(Robert Walpole)
Stop Press Girl
(McPherson)
Conspiracy of Hearts
(Father Desmaines)
80,000 Suspects
(Clifford Preston)
The Wooden Horse
(Robbie)
The Hour of 13
(Anderson)
Family Portrait
(Narrator (voice))
The White Trap
(Inspector Walters)
Don't Be Like Brenda
(Narrator (uncredited))
Captain Horatio Hornblower
(Col. Caillard - POW Escort)
Woman of Straw
(Solicitor)
Number Six
The £20,000 Kiss
(Sir Harold Trevitt)
Macbeth
(Duncan)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
(Charles Gill)
Plan for Coal
The Company Man
(Mr. Lansing)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
(Mr. Teevee (uncredited))
Chaucer's England
(The Theif)
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
(Thomas More)
Further Up the Creek
(Lt. Commander Blakeney)
Cry, the Beloved Country
(Martens)
Front Page Story
(Kennedy)
No Love for Johnnie
(Dr. West)
Still Life
(David)
Man in the Middle
(Colonel Shaw)
Ocean Terminal
(Narrator (voice))
Link Span
(Narrator (voice))
Carve Her Name with Pride
(Coding Expert)
The Avengers
The Protectors
(De Santos)
The Saint
(Dr. Quintus)
Callan
Dixon of Dock Green
(Garfield Fenton)
Interpol Calling
(Wolf Barstrom)
Man in a Suitcase
Zero One
Maigret
Hine
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
(Arthur de Crecy)
Sam
(Jack Barraclough)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
(The Minister)
Inheritance
(Mr. Oldroyd)