Michael Goodliffe
Age: N/A | From: Bebington, Cheshire, England
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Bebington, Cheshire, England
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Movie Involvements: 50
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Interpol Calling
(1959) Wolf Barstrom
The Saint
(1962) Dr. Quintus
The Protectors
(1972) De Santos
To the Devil a Daughter
(1976) George de Grass
Dixon of Dock Green
(1955) Garfield Fenton
The Battle of the River Plate
(1956) Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961) Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
Peeping Tom
(1960) Don JarvisActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | George de Grass | |
| 1975 | Dr David Muray | |
| 1973 | Jack Barraclough | |
| Narrator (uncredited) | ||
| General Weidling | ||
| 1972 | De Santos | |
| Thomas More | ||
| 1971 | Mr. Teevee (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | David | |
| Solicitor General | ||
| Snow | ||
| 1968 | Ostrovsky | |
| 1967 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Lt. Col. Paling | ||
| Hauser | ||
| 1966 | Rev. Adrian Tenterden | |
| 1965 | Captain Stein | |
| 1964 | Jeff Driscoll | |
| Professor Jules Heitz | ||
| Trumphey | ||
| Solicitor | ||
| Squadron Leader Frank Adams | ||
| Colonel Shaw | ||
| 1963 | Clifford Preston | |
| 1962 | Sir Harold Trevitt | |
| Dr. Quintus | ||
| N/A | ||
| Clyde Burchard | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1961 | Jacko Jackson the Night Editor | |
| Dr. West | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| Don Jarvis | ||
| Father Desmaines | ||
| Detective | ||
| English Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | ||
| Captain Banister | ||
| 1959 | Wolf Barstrom | |
| Inspector Walters | ||
| 1958 | Lt. Commander Blakeney | |
| Shop Customer | ||
| Thomas Andrews | ||
| Nelson | ||
| Father Paul Anjou | ||
| Coding Expert | ||
| 1957 | R.A.F. Interrogator | |
| Detective Insp. Barnes | ||
| 1956 | Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires | |
| Larry Buckham | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1955 | John Moffat | |
| Count De Dunois | ||
| Garfield Fenton | ||
| Smythe | ||
| 1954 | Kennedy | |
| Robert Walpole | ||
| 1953 | Ragan | |
| 1952 | Anderson | |
| N/A | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1951 | Martens | |
| Col. Caillard - POW Escort | ||
| 1950 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Robbie | ||
| 1949 | McPherson | |
| Till | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
