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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	1.397
Birthday	1914-10-01
Place of Birth	Bebington, Cheshire, England
Also Known As	Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe,

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

A Night to Remember

Peeping Tom

Von Ryan's Express

Cromwell

To the Devil a Daughter

The Gorgon

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Night of the Generals

Testament of Orpheus

The Battle of the Sexes

Dial 999

Wicked as They Come

633 Squadron

In Sickness and in Health

The Connoisseur

The Small Back Room

The One That Got Away

The Battle of the River Plate

Three Crooked Men

Sink the Bismarck!

The 5th Day of Peace

Jigsaw

Quentin Durward

The 7th Dawn

The End of the Affair

The Fixer

The Jokers

The Camp on Blood Island

Up the Creek

Sea Devils

Fortune Is a Woman

Troubled Waters

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Stop Press Girl

Conspiracy of Hearts

80,000 Suspects

The Wooden Horse

The Hour of 13

Family Portrait

The White Trap

Don't Be Like Brenda

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Woman of Straw

Number Six

The £20,000 Kiss

Macbeth

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Plan for Coal

The Company Man

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Chaucer's England

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Further Up the Creek

Cry, the Beloved Country

Front Page Story

No Love for Johnnie

Still Life

Man in the Middle

Ocean Terminal

Link Span

Carve Her Name with Pride