Keith Michell
Acting
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 47
Movies (29)
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches2017Self
Love/Loss2010Joe
The Deceivers1988Colonel Wilson
My Brother Tom1986Edward Quayle- Memorial Day1983Marsh
The Gondoliers1982Don Alhambra
Ruddigore1982Robin Oakapple
The Pirates of Penzance1982The Major General
Grendel Grendel Grendel1981The Shaper (voice)
The Day Christ Died1980Pontius Pilate
The Tenth Month1979Matthew Poole
Julius Caesar1979Marcus Antonius
The Story of David1976Older David
Moments1974Peter Samuelson
The Story of Jacob and Joseph1974Jacob
Henry VIII and His Six Wives1972Henry VIII
Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town1970George Leybourne
The Executioner1970Adam Booth
An Ideal Husband1969Sir Robert Chiltern
House of Cards1968Morillon
Prudence and the Pill1968Dr. Alan Huart
Soldier in Love1967John Churchill
Seven Seas to Calais1962Malcolm Marsh
Wuthering Heights1962Heathcliff
All Night Long1962Cass Michaels
The Hellfire Club1961Jason Caldwell
The Gypsy and the Gentleman1958Sir Paul Deverill
Dangerous Exile1957Colonel St. Gerard
True as a Turtle1957Harry Bell
Shows (18)
The Prince and the Pauper1996King Henry VIII
Captain James Cook1988James Cook
Murder, She Wrote1984Dennis Stanton
The BBC Television Shakespeare1978Marc Antony
The Story of David1976Older David
The Julie Andrews Hour1972Self- Late Night Theatre1972Robert Browning
- Film '721971Self
The Six Wives of Henry VIII1970Henry VIII of England
BBC Play of the Month1965Caliban
Thirty-Minute Theatre1965Geoffrey
Theatre 6251964Kain Sutherland- Festival1963Frederic - Hugo
The Spread of the Eagle1963Mark Antony- The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries1960Baron Leopold von Ragastein / Sir Edward Dominey
Armchair Theatre1956Paul de Lussac
Hallmark Hall of Fame1951John
Sunday Night Theatre1950Crown Prince Rudolf