Biographies: Michael Goodliffe - Actor

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British actor born in Bippington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom on October 1, 1914 as Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe and died in Wimbledon, London, England, United Kingdom on March 20, 1976 after jumping from a height. He married Dorothy Margaret Tyndale (1945-1976); they had 3 children, and she remained with him until his death. His most important works include The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955), Peeping Tom (1960), and A Night to Remember (1958). He was an English actor who was known for playing the roles of policemen, military officers, politicians, doctors and lawyers. He was born to a priest and was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury School, Cable College and Oxford. He studied acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Theatre and began his career at the Reference Theater in Liverpool, before moving to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. During World War II, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British Army in 1940, was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Dunkirk, and in 1940, he was declared dead for a while. While in captivity, he starred in many plays that he produced, directed and composed, and also made many oil drawings. After the war, he resumed his career on theater and also worked in cinema and television. He made several films for prisoners of war, and his first film was Saint Joan (1946). He made his last film The Madness (1976) and encountered from depression. He was admitted to hospital and died when he jumped from a height during a fire in the hospital at the age of 61 years old.

• 22 November 2021
• Christina Aziz