Michael York
Acting • Born 1942-03-27
Biography
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976). In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001). In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
Filmography
188 credits
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Movie • 1999
Basil Exposition
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Movie • 2002
Basil Exposition
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Movie • 1997
Basil Exposition
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Count Andrenyi
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1973
D'Artagnan
Cabaret
Movie • 1972
Brian Roberts
Logan's Run
Movie • 1976
Logan
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1968
Tybalt
The Riddle of the Sands
Movie • 1979
Charles Carruthers
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
Movie • 2000
Pterano (voice)
Borstal Boy
Movie • 2001
Joyce
A Knight in Camelot
Movie • 1998
King Arthur
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1967
Lucentio
Wrongfully Accused
Movie • 1998
Hibbing Goodhue
The Four Musketeers
Movie • 1974
D'Artagnan
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie • 1977
Andrew Braddock
Duel of Hearts
Movie • 1992
Gervaise Warlingham
Phantom of Death
Movie • 1988
Robert Dominici
The Omega Code
Movie • 1999
Stone Alexander
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99
Movie • 1999
Basil Exposition (segment "Beautiful Stranger")
Wide Sargasso Sea
Movie • 1993
Paul Mason
The Return of the Musketeers
Movie • 1989
D'Artagnan
Shadow of a Kiss
Movie • 1995
Albert
Justine
Movie • 1969
Darley
One Hell of a Guy
Movie • 2000
The Devil
Icon
Movie • 2005
Sir Nigel Irvine
Sword of Gideon
Movie • 1986
Robert
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 2010
Sherlock Holmes (voice)
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1997
Bob Cratchit (voice)
Freedom from Despair
Movie • 2004
Voice Over
Great Expectations
Movie • 1974
Pip
Zeppelin
Movie • 1971
Geoffrey Richter-Douglas
Austin Powers' Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club
Movie • 1997
The Swingers Club
Goodbye America
Movie • 1997
Senator Bladon
The Ring
Movie • 1996
Walmar von Gotthard
The Justice of Wolves
Movie • 2010
Mika - Adult
Alfred the Great
Movie • 1969
Guthrum
The Magic Paintbrush
Movie • 1993
The King (voice)
Fedora
Movie • 1978
Self
Night of the Fox
Movie • 1990
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel / Caporal Berger
For Those I Loved
Movie • 1983
Martin's Father / Martin Gray (age 40)
Lethal Obsession
Movie • 1987
Dr. Proper
Accident
Movie • 1967
William
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Movie • 1977
Beau Geste
Ponce de Leon
Movie • 1986
Ponce de Leon
Midnight Cop
Movie • 1988
Karstens
The Mill and the Cross
Movie • 2011
Nicolaes Jonghelinck
Dark Planet
Movie • 1997
Winter
Conduct Unbecoming
Movie • 1975
Tenente Arthur Drake
The Lady and the Highwayman
Movie • 1988
King Charles II
Lost Horizon
Movie • 1973
George Conway
Crusader
Movie • 2005
McGovern
Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1981
The Beast (voice)
Earth Songs
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Moscow Heat
Movie • 2004
Roger Chambers
Something for Everyone
Movie • 1970
Konrad Ludwig
Smashing Time
Movie • 1967
Tom Wabe
Lovers and Liars
Movie • 1998
Dick
TekWar: TekLab
Movie • 1994
Richard Stewart
The Long Way Home
Movie • 1997
(voice)
The Strange Affair
Movie • 1968
Peter Strange
The Guru
Movie • 1969
Tom Pickle
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
Movie • 1983
Twilight Theatre
Movie • 1982
Self - Host
Not of This Earth
Movie • 1995
Paul Johnson
Success Is the Best Revenge
Movie • 1984
Alex Rodak
The Haunting of Hell House
Movie • 1999
Professor Ambrose
A Tale of Two Cities: In Concert
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Tennessee Williams' South
Movie • 1973
The Ripper
Movie • 1997
Sir Charles Warren
Flatland²: Sphereland
Movie • 2012
Spherius (voice)
Rosamunde Pilcher: September
Movie • 1996
Edmund
Virgin Mary
Movie • 1995
Milan Vukovic
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
Movie • 2001
Stone Alexander
Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2014
The Narrator
Perfect Little Angels
Movie • 1998
Calvin Lawrence
Eline Vere
Movie • 1991
Lawrence St. Clare
William Powell: A True Gentleman
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Puss in Boots
Movie • 1999
Puss In Boots (voice)
Confessions of Loving Couples
Movie • 1967
Peter
Glad Christmas Tidings Featuring David Archuleta
Movie • 2011
Self
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Movie • 2005
Himself
Seven Nights in Japan
Movie • 1976
Prince George
Świadectwo
Movie • 2008
Final Assignment
Movie • 1980
Lyosha Petrov
England Made Me
Movie • 1973
Anthony Farrant
The Treat
Movie • 1998
Simon
Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion
Movie • 2006
Narrator
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 1983
Michael Hartnell
Touch and Go
Movie • 1971
Basil
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1981
Beast (voice)
Are You My Mother?
Movie • 1986
Chet Gordon
Un coup de baguette magique
Movie • 1997
Ilya
Red, White, and Zero
Movie • 1968
Acrobat
The Four Minute Mile
Movie • 1988
Franz Stampfl
The Magic Flute
Movie • 1994
King Sarastro
A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Movie • 1995
Merlin
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Movie • 2008
Self - Narrator
The Long Shadow
Movie • 1992
Flatland
Movie • 2007
Spherius (voice)
Dark Mansions
Movie • 1986
Jason Drake
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Movie • 2009
Prime #1 (voice)
Merchants of Venus
Movie • 1998
Alex Jakoff
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
Movie • 1998
David 'Arthur' McIntyre (arcive footage, uncredited)
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Movie • 2008
Self - Narrator
The Weather in the Streets
Movie • 1983
Rollo Spencer
Red and Blue
Movie • 1968
Acrobat
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
Movie • 2014
Self
The White Lions
Movie • 1981
Chris McBride
The Wanderer
Movie • 1991
Saxon Warrior
A Look Into the 23rd Century
Movie • 1976
Self
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Movie • 1978
Self
The Heat of the Day
Movie • 1989
Robert
Discretion Assured
Movie • 1994
Trevor
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
Movie • 2004
Self
David Copperfield
Movie • 1993
Edward Murdstone (voice)
The Bengal Lancers!
Movie • 1984
Captain Walberton
The Recreation of an Era
Movie • 1972
Self
Fall from Grace
Movie • 1994
Hans-Dieter Stromelburg
Rochade
Movie • 1992
Paul Grumbach
Basketball Mozart
Movie • 1996
Narrator (voice)
In Search of Peace
Movie • 2001
Chaim Herzog (voice)
The Dawn
Movie • 1986
John Dawson
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
Movie • 2008
Self
The Master of Ballantrae
Movie • 1984
James Durie
Come See the Paradise
Movie • 1990
Dance Hall Band
54
Movie • 1998
Ambassador
True Patriot
Movie • 1977
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals
Movie • 2013
Self
The Crystal Planet
Movie
The Patriarch (voice)
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1989
Paul de Lancel
Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen of the Kalahari
Movie • 2006
Behind the Scenes of 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'
Movie • 1999
Self
Presidio Med
TV • 2002
George Slingerland
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Clayton (voice)
Sliders
TV • 1995
seaQuest DSV
TV • 1993
President Alexander Bourne
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Charles Scott
Babylon 5
TV • 1994
David 'Arthur' McIntyre
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Superman: The Animated Series
TV • 1996
Kanto (voice)
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
TV • 1989
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
James Durie, Henry's older brother
Gilmore Girls
TV • 2000
Asher Fleming
Jesus of Nazareth
TV • 1977
John the Baptist
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Dr. Montague Kane (voice)
The Forsyte Saga
TV • 1967
Jolyon 'Jolly' Forsyte
The Secret of the Sahara
TV • 1988
Desmond Jordan
Gidget
TV • 1965
Justice League Unlimited
TV • 2004
Ares / Mr. Sera (voice)
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Vertigo (voice)
Space
TV • 1985
Dieter Kolff
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV • 2000
Michael York
The Magic School Bus
TV • 1994
Harry Herpst (voice)
Au nom de tous les miens
TV • 1985
Martin Gray
Frederick Forsyth's Icon
TV • 2005
Sir Nigel Irvine
The Ring
TV • 1996
Walmar von Gotthard
The Far Country
TV • 1987
Carl Zlinter
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
TV • 2008
Stephen Combe
September
TV • 1996
Edmund
The Lady Musketeer
TV • 2004
D'Artagnan
True Women
TV • 1997
Lewis Lawshe
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
TV • 2008
Dr. Nuvo Vindi (voice)
Founding Fathers
TV • 2000
Alexander Hamilton (voice) / Thomas Paine (voice)
Weekend Special
TV • 1977
King Sarastro (voice)
Magic and Beyond
TV • 1999
Host
Tall Tales & Legends
TV • 1985
Ponce de Leon
Legends
TV • 2006
Self
Legends
TV • 2006
Self (uncredited)
How I Met Your Mother
TV • 2005
Jefferson Van Smoot
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Mason Fairbanks (voice)
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Dr. Lionel Budgie (voice)
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Nigel (voice)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Bernard Fremont
The Naked Truth
TV • 1995
Leland Banks
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
TV • 1996
Robert Graves / Harold Owen (voice)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Host
A Man Called Intrepid
TV • 1979
Evan Michaelian
Vicki!
TV • 1992
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Gupta
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Lot
TV • 1999
Colin Rhome
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self
Ben 10: Alien Force
TV • 2008
Patrick (voice)