
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/1/1914
Place of Birth
Bebington, Cheshire, England
Also Known As
Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe
Michael Goodliffe
Biography
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 ...
Known For

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as General Weidling

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
as Mr. Teevee (uncredited)

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Charles Gill

The Man with the Golden Gun
as Bill Tanner

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
as Jacko Jackson the Night Editor

To the Devil a Daughter
as George de Grass

The Fifth Day of Peace
as Snow

The Hour of 13
as Anderson

The 39 Steps
as Brown

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
as Thomas More

The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
as Self (archive footage)

Stop Press Girl
as McPherson

The End of the Affair
as Smythe

Dial 999
as John Moffat

Wicked as They Come
as Larry Buckham

The Gorgon
as Professor Jules Heitz

Peeping Tom
as Don Jarvis

Von Ryan's Express
as Captain Stein

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Robert Walpole

James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Bill Tanner (archive footage)
Career Timeline
1973
1970
1967
1965
1964
The Man with Two Faces
as Jeff Driscoll
The Gorgon
as Professor Jules Heitz
The Wednesday Play
as Mr. Douglas
The 7th Dawn
as Trumphey
Theatre 625
as Dr Bergman
Theatre 625
as Götz von Berlichingen
Theatre 625
as Petrovykh
Woman of Straw
as Solicitor
633 Squadron
as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
Man in the Middle
as Colonel Shaw
1963
1962
1961
1960
Maigret
Role unknown
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Charles Gill
Peeping Tom
as Don Jarvis
Conspiracy of Hearts
as Father Desmaines
The Battle of the Sexes
as Detective
Testament of Orpheus
as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Banister
Somerset Maugham Hour
as Lansbury