Keith Michell
Acting • Born 1926-12-01 – 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
43 credits
House of Cards
Movie • 1968
Morillon
Prudence and the Pill
Movie • 1968
Dr. Alan Huart
The Deceivers
Movie • 1988
Colonel Wilson
All Night Long
Movie • 1962
Cass Michaels
The Story of David
Movie • 1976
Older David
The Gondoliers
Movie • 1982
Don Alhambra
Ruddigore
Movie • 1982
Robin Oakapple
The Pirates of Penzance
Movie • 1982
The Major General
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Movie • 1972
Henry VIII
Moments
Movie • 1974
Peter Samuelson
The Hellfire Club
Movie • 1961
Jason
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Movie • 1974
Jacob
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Movie • 1958
Sir Paul Deverill
Seven Seas to Calais
Movie • 1962
Malcolm Marsh
The Executioner
Movie • 1970
Adam Booth
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1962
Heathcliff
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1979
Marcus Antonius
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town
Movie • 1970
George Leybourne
Dangerous Exile
Movie • 1957
Colonel St. Gerard
Love/Loss
Movie • 2010
Joe
Soldier in Love
Movie • 1967
John Churchill
An Ideal Husband
Movie • 1969
Sir Robert Chiltern
My Brother Tom
Movie • 1986
Edward Quayle
Memorial Day
Movie • 1983
Marsh
The Day Christ Died
Movie • 1980
Pontius Pilate
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Movie • 2017
Self
The Tenth Month
Movie • 1979
Matthew Poole
True as a Turtle
Movie • 1957
Harry Bell
Grendel Grendel Grendel
Movie • 1981
The Shaper (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Dennis Stanton
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
John
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
TV • 1970
Henry VIII of England
Captain James Cook
TV • 1988
James Cook
The Julie Andrews Hour
TV • 1972
Self
The Prince and the Pauper
TV • 1996
King Henry VIII
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Paul de Lussac
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Crown Prince Rudolf
The Spread of the Eagle
TV • 1963
Mark Antony
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Caliban
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Sir Robert Chiltern
Festival
TV • 1963
Frederic - Hugo
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Kain Sutherland