Keith Michell

Born: 1926-12-01, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Died: 2015-11-20

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.

Filmography

• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
• Theatre 625 (1964)
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
• The Gondoliers (1982)
• The Spread of the Eagle (1963)
• The Executioner (1970)
• The Deceivers (1988)
• Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
• Prudence and the Pill (1968)
• Ruddigore (1982)
• The Day Christ Died (1980)
• The Hellfire Club (1961)
• The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
• The Story of David (1976)
• The Tenth Month (1979)
• Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)
• Dangerous Exile (1957)
• True as a Turtle (1957)
• Soldier in Love (1967)
• Love/Loss (2010)
• The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958)
• Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town (1970)