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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 1, 1914
Died
March 20, 1976
Place of Birth
Bebington, Cheshire, England
Also Known As
- Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe
Michael Goodliffe
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
3.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
1993
5.0
Bill Tanner (archive footage)
James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983
5.4
George de Grass
To the Devil a Daughter
1976
0.0
Dr David Muray
In Sickness and in Health
1975
6.5
Bill Tanner
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
5.0
Jack Barraclough
Sam
1973
3.2
Narrator (uncredited)
Don't Be Like Brenda
1973
6.1
General Weidling
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
5.8
De Santos
The Protectors
1972
5.6
Thomas More
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
Credits
The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
as Self (archive footage)
1993
3.0
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Bill Tanner (archive footage)
1983
5.0
To the Devil a Daughter
as George de Grass
1976
5.4
In Sickness and in Health
as Dr David Muray
1975
0.0
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Bill Tanner
1974
6.5
Sam
as Jack Barraclough
1973
5.0
Don't Be Like Brenda
as Narrator (uncredited)
1973
3.2
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as General Weidling
1973
6.1
The Protectors
as De Santos
1972
5.8
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Thomas More
1972
5.6
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
1971
7.5
Hine
1971
0.0
🎬
Still Life
as David
1970
0.0
🎬
The Company Man
as Mr. Lansing
1970
0.0
🎬
Macbeth
as Duncan
1970
0.0
Cromwell
as Solicitor General
1970
6.5
The Fifth Day of Peace
as Snow
1970
5.4
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
as Arthur de Crecy
1969
7.0
The Fixer
as Ostrovsky
1968
6.0
Cities At War
as Self - Narrator
1968
7.0
🎬
Inheritance
as Mr. Oldroyd
1967
5.0
Man in a Suitcase
1967
7.0
Callan
1967
7.0
The Jokers
as Lt. Col. Paling
1967
6.0
The Night of the Generals
as Hauser
1967
6.8
The Connoisseur
as Rev. Adrian Tenterden
1966
0.0
🎬
The Idiot
as General Epanchin
1966
0.0
The Power Game
as Geoffrey Packard
1965
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Duncan
1965
5.0
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as The Minister
1965
3.4
Von Ryan's Express
as Captain Stein
1965
7.1
The Man with Two Faces
as Jeff Driscoll
1964
0.0
The Gorgon
as Professor Jules Heitz
1964
6.3
The Wednesday Play
as Mr. Douglas
1964
4.5
The 7th Dawn
as Trumphey
1964
6.5
Theatre 625
as Dr Bergman
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Götz von Berlichingen
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Petrovykh
1964
7.2
Woman of Straw
as Solicitor
1964
6.2
633 Squadron
as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
1964
6.1
Man in the Middle
as Colonel Shaw
1964
6.5
A Stitch in Time
as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
1963
7.4
80,000 Suspects
as Clifford Preston
1963
6.9
The £20,000 Kiss
as Sir Harold Trevitt
1962
0.0
The Saint
as Dr. Quintus
1962
7.4
Zero One
1962
6.0
Man of the World
as Galworth
1962
7.0
Jigsaw
as Clyde Burchard
1962
7.3
Number Six
as Det. Supt. Hallett
1962
0.0
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
1961
6.8
No Love for Johnnie
as Dr. West
1961
6.2
The Avengers
1961
7.7
Maigret
1960
7.2
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Charles Gill
1960
6.2
Peeping Tom
as Don Jarvis
1960
7.4
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Father Desmaines
1960
6.7
The Battle of the Sexes
as Detective
1960
6.5
Testament of Orpheus
as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1960
7.7
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Banister
1960
6.8
🎬
Somerset Maugham Hour
as Lansbury
1960
0.0
Interpol Calling
as Wolf Barstrom
1959
6.7
The White Trap
as Inspector Walters
1959
5.8
The 39 Steps
as Brown
1959
6.2
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
as Sir Harold Trevitt
1959
7.0
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
as Det. Supt. Hallett
1959
7.0
Further Up the Creek
as Lt. Commander Blakeney
1958
6.0
Three Crooked Men
as Shop Customer
1958
5.5
A Night to Remember
as Thomas Andrews
1958
7.7
Up the Creek
as Nelson
1958
5.5
The Camp on Blood Island
as Father Paul Anjou
1958
6.6
Carve Her Name with Pride
as Coding Expert
1958
6.0
🎬
Chaucer's England
as The Theif
1958
0.0
The One That Got Away
as R.A.F. Interrogator
1957
6.8
🎬
The End Begins
as Col. Ridgewell
1957
0.0
Fortune Is a Woman
as Detective Insp. Barnes
1957
6.8
The Battle of the River Plate
as Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
1956
6.3
Wicked as They Come
as Larry Buckham
1956
4.9
Link Span
as Narrator (voice)
1956
8.5
Dial 999
as John Moffat
1955
4.7
Quentin Durward
as Count De Dunois
1955
5.6
Dixon of Dock Green
as Garfield Fenton
1955
5.3
The End of the Affair
as Smythe
1955
5.7
The Crowded Day
as Eve's Husband
1954
5.4
🎬
Front Page Story
as Kennedy
1954
0.0
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Robert Walpole
1953
4.9
Sea Devils
as Ragan
1953
5.8
The Hour of 13
as Anderson
1952
5.7
Plan for Coal
1952
0.0
Ocean Terminal
as Narrator (voice)
1952
6.0
Cry, the Beloved Country
as Martens
1951
6.1
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
1951
6.9
Family Portrait
as Narrator (voice)
1950
5.8
The Wooden Horse
as Robbie
1950
6.8
Sunday Night Theatre
as Udolphus McCluskey
1950
3.5
Stop Press Girl
as McPherson
1949
5.6
The Small Back Room
as Till
1949
6.7