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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-12-01 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Keith Michell

Biography:

Keith Michell (born 1 December 1928, died 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor most famous for playing Henry VIII on several occasions; in the epic 1970 BBC drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII, the 1972 movie Henry VIII and his Six Wives and the 1996 BBC drama The Prince and the Pauper. In 1980 he scored a number 5 UK chart hit with Captain Beaky, a recital of a Jeremy Lloyd poem.

Known For

Acting

2017

2010

Love/Loss as Joe

1996

The Prince and the Pauper as King Henry VIII

1988

The Deceivers as Colonel Wilson
Captain James Cook as James Cook

1986

My Brother Tom as Edward Quayle

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Dennis Stanton

1983

Memorial Day as Marsh

1982

The Gondoliers as Don Alhambra
The Pirates Of Penzance as The Major General
Ruddigore as Robin Oakapple

1981

Grendel Grendel Grendel as The Shaper (voice)

1980

The Day Christ Died as Pontius Pilate

1979

Julius Caesar as Marcus Antonius
The Tenth Month as Matthew Poole

1978

1976

The Story of David as Older David

1974

Moments as Peter Samuelson

1972

1970

The Executioner as Adam Booth
The Six Wives of Henry VIII as Henry VIII of England

1969

An Ideal Husband as Sir Robert Chiltern

1968

House of Cards as Morillon
Prudence and the Pill as Dr. Alan Huart

1967

Soldier in Love as John Churchill

1962

All Night Long as Cass Michaels
Seven Seas to Calais as Malcolm Marsh
Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff

1961

1958

The Gypsy and the Gentleman as Sir Paul Deverill

1957

Dangerous Exile as Colonel St. Gerard
True as a Turtle as Harry Bell

1956

Armchair Theatre as Paul de Lussac

1951

1950

Sunday Night Theatre as Crown Prince Rudolf