Michael Elphick
Acting • Born 1946-09-19 – Died 2002-09-07
Biography
Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.
Filmography
91 credits
The Elephant Man
Movie • 1980
Night Porter
Quadrophenia
Movie • 1979
Father
Pig Bin
Movie • 1974
Policeman
Gorky Park
Movie • 1983
Pasha
The Element of Crime
Movie • 1984
Fisher
Little Dorrit
Movie • 1987
Mr. Merdle
Withnail & I
Movie • 1987
Jake
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
Movie • 1990
Inspector Cleaver
Krull
Movie • 1983
Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
Hamlet
Movie • 1969
Captain
Bird Fancier
Movie • 1985
Joe Desmond
Privates on Parade
Movie • 1983
Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
Out of Bounds
Movie • 2003
Lionel Stubbs
The Buttercup Chain
Movie • 1970
The Driver
The Nearly Man
Movie • 1974
Ron Hibbert
The Betrayal
Movie • 1969
Tom
The Fix
Movie • 1997
Peter Campling
C.Q.
Movie • 1984
Norman
Memed My Hawk
Movie • 1984
Jabbar
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
Movie • 1984
Self - Actor/Fisher
Curse of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1983
Valencia Police Chief
See No Evil
Movie • 1971
Gypsy Tom
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Movie • 1984
Len
Red Shift
Movie • 1978
Thomas Venables
The Knowledge
Movie • 1979
Gordon Weller
The Krays
Movie • 1990
George - Prisoner
Cold Harbour
Movie • 1978
Barrister at Party
Norma
Movie • 1974
Norma's Friend
That Sinking Feeling
Movie • 1973
Chopper
Man Charged
Movie • 1971
Robert Delmonds
Blue Remembered Hills
Movie • 1979
Peter
Black Island
Movie • 1979
Jack Daker
Cry of the Banshee
Movie • 1970
Burke
The First Great Train Robbery
Movie • 1978
Burgess
Where's Jack?
Movie • 1969
Hogarth
Three Men in a Boat
Movie • 1975
2nd Porter
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie • 1985
Ernst Röhm
Buddy's Song
Movie • 1991
Des
Pirates
Movie • 1986
Sentry
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Movie • 1978
Michel
Streetwise
Movie • 1996
Narrator
Let Him Have It
Movie • 1991
Prison Officer Jack
Which Side Are You On?
Movie • 1985
Narrator (voice)
The Odd Job
Movie • 1978
Raymonde
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
Movie • 1992
Dr. Nathaniel Bonner
Richard III
Movie • 1995
2nd Murderer
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1984
Dogberry
The Supergrass
Movie • 1985
Constable Collins
Ordeal by Innocence
Movie • 1984
Inspector Huish
A Good Human Story
Movie • 1977
O Lucky Man!
Movie • 1973
Man at Stag Party
Valhalla
Movie • 1986
Udgaardsloki (voice)
Treasure Island
Movie • 1995
Billy Bones
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Movie • 1978
Wallace Parnell
Last Summer
Movie • 1977
Oscar
Hanging Around
Movie • 1978
Hank
Play Things
Movie • 1976
Frank
Pocketful of Dreams
Movie • 1982
Charlie
Chains
Movie • 1982
Eddie
The Little Farm
Movie • 1973
Jack
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Bill Todd
Three Up, Two Down
TV • 1985
Sam Tyler
Boon
TV • 1986
Ken Boon
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Jimmy Fleet
Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Gerhard Schulz
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973
Gorenflot
Harry
TV • 1993
Harry Salter
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
Pull The Other One
TV • 1984
Sidney Mundy
New Scotland Yard
TV • 1972
Oxbridge Blues
TV • 1984
Curly Bonaventura
Crown Court
TV • 1972
Simon Chase
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Michel
Super Gran
TV • 1985
Roly Roofless
Justice
TV • 1971
Peter Rodwell
David Copperfield
TV • 1999
Barkis
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
TV • 1983
Magowan
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Peter
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Sergeant Garbett
This Year Next Year
TV • 1977
Jack Shaw
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Frank
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Charlie
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Eddie
The Misfit
TV • 1970
Mike Halloran
The Nearly Man
TV • 1974
Ron Hibbert
Masada
TV • 1981
Vettius
Hazell
TV • 1978
Griffiths
Shoestring
TV • 1979
Pete Johnson
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
TV • 1976
Captain Narcissus Bullock
Smiley's People
TV • 1982
Detective Chief Inspector
Modern Times
TV • 1995