Keith Michell

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.

Known For

Murder, She Wrote

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Theatre 625

Sunday Night Theatre

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The Julie Andrews Hour

All Movies (29)

• Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches2017 · as Self
• Love/Loss2010 · as Joe
• The Deceivers1988 · as Colonel Wilson
• My Brother Tom1986 · as Edward Quayle
• Memorial Day1983 · as Marsh
• The Gondoliers1982 · as Don Alhambra
• The Pirates of Penzance1982 · as The Major General
• Ruddigore1982 · as Robin Oakapple
• Grendel Grendel Grendel1981 · as The Shaper (voice)
• The Day Christ Died1980 · as Pontius Pilate
• The Tenth Month1979 · as Matthew Poole
• Julius Caesar1979 · as Marcus Antonius
• The Story of David1976 · as Older David
• Moments1974 · as Peter Samuelson
• The Story of Jacob and Joseph1974 · as Jacob
• Henry VIII and His Six Wives1972 · as Henry VIII
• Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town1970 · as George Leybourne
• The Executioner1970 · as Adam Booth
• An Ideal Husband1969 · as Sir Robert Chiltern
• House of Cards1968 · as Morillon
• Prudence and the Pill1968 · as Dr. Alan Huart
• Soldier in Love1967 · as John Churchill
• Seven Seas to Calais1962 · as Malcolm Marsh
• Wuthering Heights1962 · as Heathcliff
• All Night Long1962 · as Cass Michaels
• The Hellfire Club1961 · as Jason Caldwell
• The Gypsy and the Gentleman1958 · as Sir Paul Deverill
• Dangerous Exile1957 · as Colonel St. Gerard
• True as a Turtle1957 · as Harry Bell

All TV Shows (17)

• The Prince and the Pauper1996 · as King Henry VIII
• Captain James Cook1988 · as James Cook
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Dennis Stanton
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Marc Antony
• The Story of David1976 · as Older David
• The Julie Andrews Hour1972 · as Self
• Film '721971 · as Self
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII1970 · as Henry VIII of England
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Caliban
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Sir Robert Chiltern
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as Geoffrey
• Theatre 6251964 · as Kain Sutherland
• Festival1963 · as Frederic - Hugo
• The Spread of the Eagle1963 · as Mark Antony
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Paul de Lussac
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as John
• Sunday Night Theatre1950 · as Crown Prince Rudolf