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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 27, 1942
Place of Birth
Fulmer, England, UK
Also Known As
- Maykl York
- مایکل یورک
- Michael Hugh Johnson
Michael York
1.6 Popularity
Biography
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976). In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001). In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
Known For
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6.0
Self
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
2014
4.4
The Narrator
Sleeping Beauty
2014
0.0
Self
Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals
2013
3.8
Spherius (voice)
Flatland²: Sphereland
2012
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0.0
Narrator
Earth Songs
2012
0.0
Self
Glad Christmas Tidings Featuring David Archuleta
2011
6.4
Nicolaes Jonghelinck
The Mill and the Cross
2011
3.2
Mika - Adult
The Justice of Wolves
2010
6.5
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
2010
0.0
Narrator
A Tale of Two Cities: In Concert
2009
Credits
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Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
as Self
2014
6.0
Sleeping Beauty
as The Narrator
2014
4.4
Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals
as Self
2013
0.0
Flatland²: Sphereland
as Spherius (voice)
2012
3.8
🎬
Earth Songs
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Glad Christmas Tidings Featuring David Archuleta
as Self
2011
0.0
The Mill and the Cross
as Nicolaes Jonghelinck
2011
6.4
The Justice of Wolves
as Mika - Adult
2010
3.2
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes (voice)
2010
6.5
A Tale of Two Cities: In Concert
as Narrator
2009
0.0
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
as Prime #1 (voice)
2009
6.2
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
as Stephen Combe
2008
7.5
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Świadectwo
2008
7.3
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as Dr. Nuvo Vindi (voice)
2008
8.5
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self - Narrator
2008
5.0
Chris & Don: A Love Story
as Self - Narrator
2008
5.8
Ben 10: Alien Force
as Patrick (voice)
2008
8.3
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
as Self
2008
7.8
Flatland
as Spherius (voice)
2007
5.8
Legends
as Self
2006
5.0
Legends
as Self (uncredited)
2006
5.0
Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion
as Narrator
2006
0.0
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Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen of the Kalahari
2006
0.0
How I Met Your Mother
as Jefferson Van Smoot
2005
8.1
The Hobart Shakespeareans
as Himself
2005
4.0
Crusader
as McGovern
2005
4.3
William Powell: A True Gentleman
as Narrator
2005
7.5
Frederick Forsyth's Icon
as Sir Nigel Irvine
2005
0.0
Icon
as Sir Nigel Irvine
2005
5.6
Moscow Heat
as Roger Chambers
2004
2.6
Freedom from Despair
as Voice Over
2004
0.0
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
as Self
2004
6.5
Justice League Unlimited
as Ares / Mr. Sera (voice)
2004
8.3
The Lady Musketeer
as D'Artagnan
2004
5.2
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
as Narrator (voice)
2002
6.9
Presidio Med
as George Slingerland
2002
8.0
Austin Powers in Goldmember
as Basil Exposition
2002
6.0
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Bernard Fremont
2001
7.6
In Search of Peace
as Chaim Herzog (voice)
2001
6.5
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
as Stone Alexander
2001
4.5
Borstal Boy
as Joyce
2001
6.1
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
as Pterano (voice)
2000
6.2
Founding Fathers
as Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Thomas Paine (voice)
2000
0.0
One Hell of a Guy
as The Devil
2000
3.6
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Michael York
2000
8.0
Gilmore Girls
as Asher Fleming
2000
7.9
Behind the Scenes of 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'
as Self
1999
0.0
The Haunting of Hell House
as Professor Ambrose
1999
4.2
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
as Basil Exposition (segment "Beautiful Stranger")
1999
7.5
The Omega Code
as Stone Alexander
1999
4.5
The Lot
as Colin Rhome
1999
0.5
Puss in Boots
as Puss In Boots (voice)
1999
5.2
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
as Basil Exposition
1999
6.3
Magic and Beyond
as Host
1999
0.0
A Knight in Camelot
as King Arthur
1998
5.5
The Treat
as Simon
1998
2.8
54
as Ambassador
1998
5.9
Wrongfully Accused
as Hibbing Goodhue
1998
6.0
Perfect Little Angels
as Calvin Lawrence
1998
4.9
Merchants of Venus
as Alex Jakoff
1998
5.8
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
as David 'Arthur' McIntyre (arcive footage, uncredited)
1998
7.2
Lovers and Liars
as Dick
1998
1.0
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit (voice)
1997
6.4
The Ripper
as Sir Charles Warren
1997
5.3
The Long Way Home
as (voice)
1997
7.1
Un coup de baguette magique
as Ilya
1997
0.0
Dark Planet
as Winter
1997
3.8
True Women
as Lewis Lawshe
1997
6.7
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as Basil Exposition
1997
6.6
Austin Powers' Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club
as The Swingers Club
1997
4.8
Goodbye America
as Senator Bladon
1997
4.5
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
as Robert Graves / Harold Owen (voice)
1996
8.2
The Ring
as Walmar von Gotthard
1996
5.2
The Ring
as Walmar von Gotthard
1996
0.0
Superman: The Animated Series
as Kanto (voice)
1996
7.6
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
as Edmund
1996
7.8
Basketball Mozart
as Narrator (voice)
1996
0.0
September
as Edmund
1996
5.0
Virgin Mary
as Milan Vukovic
1995
4.1
The Naked Truth
as Leland Banks
1995
6.4
Not of This Earth
as Paul Johnson
1995
3.9
Shadow of a Kiss
as Albert
1995
0.0
A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Merlin
1995
5.7
Sliders
1995
7.6
The Magic School Bus
as Harry Herpst (voice)
1994
7.6
Discretion Assured
as Trevor
1994
3.4
Fall from Grace
as Hans-Dieter Stromelburg
1994
1.0
The Magic Flute
as King Sarastro
1994
6.1
TekWar: TekLab
as Richard Stewart
1994
4.9
Babylon 5
as David 'Arthur' McIntyre
1994
8.0
David Copperfield
as Edward Murdstone (voice)
1993
5.9
seaQuest DSV
as President Alexander Bourne
1993
7.0
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The Magic Paintbrush
as The King (voice)
1993
0.0
Wide Sargasso Sea
as Paul Mason
1993
4.7
Batman: The Animated Series
as Dr. Montague Kane (voice)
1992
8.6
Batman: The Animated Series
as Vertigo (voice)
1992
8.6
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Vicki!
as Self
1992
5.0
Rochade
as Paul Grumbach
1992
10.0
Duel of Hearts
as Gervaise Warlingham
1992
5.5
The Long Shadow
1992
6.3
Eline Vere
as Lawrence St. Clare
1991
6.0
The Wanderer
as Saxon Warrior
1991
0.0
Night of the Fox
as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel / Caporal Berger
1990
6.0
Come See the Paradise
as Dance Hall Band
1990
6.2
The Simpsons
as Clayton (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Mason Fairbanks (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Dr. Lionel Budgie (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Nigel (voice)
1989
8.0
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1989
6.0
Till We Meet Again
as Paul de Lancel
1989
0.0
The Heat of the Day
as Robert
1989
0.0
The Return of the Musketeers
as D'Artagnan
1989
6.2
The Lady and the Highwayman
as King Charles II
1988
5.1
The Four Minute Mile
as Franz Stampfl
1988
6.8
Midnight Cop
as Karstens
1988
4.3
Phantom of Death
as Robert Dominici
1988
5.6
The Secret of the Sahara
as Desmond Jordan
1988
6.1
Lethal Obsession
as Dr. Proper
1987
4.4
The Far Country
as Carl Zlinter
1987
0.0
The Dawn
as John Dawson
1986
10.0
Ponce de Leon
as Ponce de Leon
1986
0.0
Sword of Gideon
as Robert
1986
6.8
Dark Mansions
as Jason Drake
1986
0.0
Are You My Mother?
as Chet Gordon
1986
0.0
Tall Tales & Legends
as Ponce de Leon
1985
5.4
Space
as Dieter Kolff
1985
6.5
Au nom de tous les miens
as Martin Gray
1985
0.0
The Bengal Lancers!
as Captain Walberton
1984
1.0
Success Is the Best Revenge
as Alex Rodak
1984
6.0
The Master of Ballantrae
as James Durie
1984
6.0
The Weather in the Streets
as Rollo Spencer
1983
2.3
For Those I Loved
as Martin's Father / Martin Gray (age 40)
1983
6.9
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
1983
0.0
The Phantom of the Opera
as Michael Hartnell
1983
5.4
Twilight Theatre
as Self - Host
1982
0.0
The White Lions
as Chris McBride
1981
0.0
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
as Beast (voice)
1981
0.0
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Beauty and the Beast
as The Beast (voice)
1981
4.0
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Final Assignment
as Lyosha Petrov
1980
4.0
Knots Landing
as Charles Scott
1979
6.7
The Riddle of the Sands
as Charles Carruthers
1979
5.9
A Man Called Intrepid
as Evan Michaelian
1979
0.0
Formula 1 - Speed fever
as Self
1978
7.0
Fedora
as Self
1978
6.7
True Patriot
as Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1977
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1977
7.0
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Weekend Special
as King Sarastro (voice)
1977
7.6
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Andrew Braddock
1977
5.6
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
as Beau Geste
1977
5.5
Jesus of Nazareth
as John the Baptist
1977
7.8
Seven Nights in Japan
as Prince George
1976
6.5
Logan's Run
as Logan
1976
6.6
A Look Into the 23rd Century
as Self
1976
0.0
Conduct Unbecoming
as Tenente Arthur Drake
1975
5.7
Murder on the Orient Express
as Count Andrenyi
1974
7.1
The Four Musketeers
as D'Artagnan
1974
6.4
Great Expectations
as Pip
1974
6.2
The Three Musketeers
as D'Artagnan
1973
6.7
England Made Me
as Anthony Farrant
1973
5.7
Lost Horizon
as George Conway
1973
5.4
Tennessee Williams' South
1973
10.0
Cabaret
as Brian Roberts
1972
7.4
The Recreation of an Era
as Self
1972
5.7
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Film '72
as Self
1971
4.7
Touch and Go
as Basil
1971
5.0
Zeppelin
as Geoffrey Richter-Douglas
1971
6.0
Something for Everyone
as Konrad Ludwig
1970
6.4
Alfred the Great
as Guthrum
1969
4.3
Justine
as Darley
1969
4.0
The Guru
as Tom Pickle
1969
5.0
The Strange Affair
as Peter Strange
1968
3.9
Red and Blue
as Acrobat
1968
6.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Tybalt
1968
7.4
Red, White, and Zero
as Acrobat
1968
5.0
Smashing Time
as Tom Wabe
1967
6.2
The Taming of the Shrew
as Lucentio
1967
6.9
Confessions of Loving Couples
as Peter
1967
1.0
Accident
as William
1967
6.3
The Forsyte Saga
as Jolyon 'Jolly' Forsyte
1967
8.2
The Wild Wild West
as Gupta
1965
7.6
Gidget
1965
6.6
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.7
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as James Durie, Henry's older brother
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Host
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2
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The Crystal Planet
as The Patriarch (voice)
N/A
0.0