1914-10-01 Bebington, Cheshire, England
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Goodliffe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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To the Devil a Daughter | George de Grass | 1976-03-04 |
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In Sickness and in Health | Dr David Muray | 1975-05-21 |
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Don't Be Like Brenda | Narrator (uncredited) | 1973-05-27 |
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days | General Weidling | 1973-04-19 |
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Thomas More | 1972-07-13 |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | Mr. Teevee (uncredited) | 1971-06-29 |
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Cromwell | Solicitor General | 1970-09-16 |
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Still Life | David | 1970-11-17 |
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Macbeth | Duncan | 1970-09-20 |
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The Company Man | Mr. Lansing | 1970-11-06 |
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Dio è con noi | Snow | 1970-04-17 |
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The Fixer | Ostrovsky | 1968-12-08 |
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The Night of the Generals | Hauser | 1967-01-29 |
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The Jokers | Lt. Col. Paling | 1967-05-15 |
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The Connoisseur | Rev. Adrian Tenterden | 1966-05-24 |
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Von Ryan's Express | Captain Stein | 1965-06-23 |
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Troubled Waters | Jeff Driscoll | 1964-12-01 |
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The 7th Dawn | Trumphey | 1964-09-02 |
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633 Squadron | Squadron Leader Frank Adams | 1964-04-06 |
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The Gorgon | Professor Jules Heitz | 1964-10-18 |
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Man in the Middle | Colonel Shaw | 1964-01-27 |
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Woman of Straw | Solicitor | 1964-04-28 |
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80,000 Suspects | Clifford Preston | 1963-08-15 |
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Jigsaw | Clyde Burchard | 1962-08-21 |
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Number Six | 1962-04-01 | |
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The £20,000 Kiss | Sir Harold Trevitt | 1962-12-31 |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire | Jacko Jackson the Night Editor | 1961-11-01 |
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No Love for Johnnie | Dr. West | 1961-02-14 |
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Le Testament d'Orphée | English Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1960-02-18 |
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Conspiracy of Hearts | Father Desmaines | 1960-04-07 |
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Peeping Tom | Don Jarvis | 1960-05-16 |
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Sink the Bismarck! | Captain Banister | 1960-02-11 |
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Charles Gill | 1960-05-28 |
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The Battle of the Sexes | Detective | 1960-02-25 |
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The White Trap | Inspector Walters | 1959-08-01 |
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The Camp on Blood Island | Father Paul Anjou | 1958-04-15 |
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Further Up the Creek | Lt. Commander Blakeney | 1958-10-28 |
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Three Crooked Men | Shop Customer | 1958-10-01 |
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Carve Her Name with Pride | Coding Expert | 1958-02-18 |
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Up the Creek | Nelson | 1958-05-13 |
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A Night to Remember | Thomas Andrews | 1958-07-03 |
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Fortune Is a Woman | Detective Insp. Barnes | 1957-03-13 |
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The One That Got Away | R.A.F. Interrogator | 1957-11-22 |
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Wicked as They Come | Larry Buckham | 1956-05-22 |
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Link Span | Narrator (voice) | 1956-01-02 |
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The Battle of the River Plate | Captain McCall, R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires | 1956-10-30 |
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The End of the Affair | Smythe | 1955-02-24 |
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Dial 999 | John Moffat | 1955-12-01 |
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Quentin Durward | Count De Dunois | 1955-09-09 |
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Front Page Story | Kennedy | 1954-03-15 |
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue | Robert Walpole | 1953-10-26 |
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Sea Devils | Ragan | 1953-04-12 |
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The Hour of 13 | Anderson | 1952-11-21 |
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Ocean Terminal | Narrator (voice) | 1952-01-02 |
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Plan for Coal | 1952-01-02 | |
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Col. Caillard - POW Escort | 1951-04-10 |
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Cry, the Beloved Country | Martens | 1951-11-16 |
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Family Portrait | Narrator (voice) | 1950-12-01 |
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The Wooden Horse | Robbie | 1950-10-16 |
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The Small Back Room | Till | 1949-02-21 |
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Stop Press Girl | McPherson | 1949-06-02 |
