
Michael Goodliffe
Biography
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Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor best known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts.
Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire (now Merseyside), the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of World War II, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany.
Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noel Coward's Post Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists.
After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best known film was A Night to Remember (1958) in which he played Thomas Andrews, builder of the RMS Titanic. His best known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance.
Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape, whilst a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
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Acting (63 movies)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973

A Night to Remember
1958

Peeping Tom
1960

Von Ryan's Express
1965

Cromwell
1970

To the Devil a Daughter
1976

The Gorgon
1964

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961

The Night of the Generals
1967

Testament of Orpheus
1960

The Battle of the Sexes
1960

Dial 999
1955

Wicked as They Come
1956

633 Squadron
1964

In Sickness and in Health
1975

The Connoisseur
1966

The Small Back Room
1949

The One That Got Away
1957

The Battle of the River Plate
1956

Three Crooked Men
1958

Sink the Bismarck!
1960

The Fifth Day of Peace
1970

Jigsaw
1962

Quentin Durward
1955

The 7th Dawn
1964

The End of the Affair
1955

The Fixer
1968

The Jokers
1967

The Camp on Blood Island
1958

Up the Creek
1958

Sea Devils
1953

Fortune Is a Woman
1957

The Man with Two Faces
1964

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953

Stop Press Girl
1949

Conspiracy of Hearts
1960

80,000 Suspects
1963

The Wooden Horse
1950

The Hour of 13
1952

Family Portrait
1950

The White Trap
1959

Don't Be Like Brenda
1973

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951

Woman of Straw
1964

Number Six
1962

The £20,000 Kiss
1962

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960

Plan for Coal
1952

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1971

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972

Further Up the Creek
1958

Cry, the Beloved Country
1951

No Love for Johnnie
1961

Man in the Middle
1964

Ocean Terminal
1952

Link Span
1956

Carve Her Name with Pride
1958

The 39 Steps
1959

The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
1993

James Bond: The First 21 Years
1983

The Crowded Day
1954

A Stitch in Time
1963

The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
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