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Michael Elphick

Actor | * 09/19/1946 († 55, 09/07/2002) | Chichester, Sussex, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English film and television actor. He played the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1983 film Gorky Park. In his prime, Elphick always looked older than he was, and with his gruff Sussex accent and lip-curling sneer he often played menacing hard men. Elphick struggled with an addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem, he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed to his death from a heart attack in 2002. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

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A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivit ...

The Elephant Man

PG

1980 | 4.0/5 | 2h 4min
Drama, History
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Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When t ...

Withnail & I

Certification unknown

1987 | 3.7/5 | 1h 48min
Comedy, Drama
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Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was ...

The Element of Crime

Certification unknown

1984 | 3.2/5 | 1h 44min
Crime, Drama, Science Fiction
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Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more ...

Gorky Park

R

1983 | 3.2/5 | 2h 8min
Thriller, Crime, Drama
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Movies with Michael Elphick as Actor(41)

as Lionel Stubbs2003 Out of Bounds
as Peter Campling1997 The Fix
as 2nd Murderer1995 Richard III
as Billy Bones1995 Treasure Island
as Dr. Nathaniel Bonner1992 The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
as Des1991 Buddy's Song
as Prison Officer Jack1991 Let Him Have It
as Inspector Cleaver1990 I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
as George - Prisoner1990 The Krays
as Jake1987 Withnail & I
as Mr. Merdle1987 Little Dorrit
as Udgaardsloki (voice)1986 Valhalla
as Sentry1986 Pirates
as Narrator (voice)1985 Which Side Are You On?
as Constable Collins1985 The Supergrass
as Ernst Röhm1985 Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
as Inspector Huish1984 Ordeal by Innocence
as Fisher1984 The Element of Crime
as Dogberry1984 Much Ado About Nothing
as Len1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground
as Jabbar1984 Memed My Hawk
as Valencia Police Chief1983 Curse of the Pink Panther
as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)1983 Krull
as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond1983 Privates on Parade
as Pasha1983 Gorky Park
as Night Porter1980 The Elephant Man
as Father1979 Quadrophenia
as Jack Daker1979 Black Island
as Gordon Weller1979 The Knowledge
as Burgess1978 The First Great Train Robbery
as Thomas Venables1978 Red Shift
as Michel1978 Saturday, Sunday, Monday
as Raymonde1978 The Odd Job
1977 A Good Human Story
as 2nd Porter1975 Three Men in a Boat
as Man at Stag Party1973 O Lucky Man!
as Gypsy Tom1971 See No Evil
as Burke1970 Cry of the Banshee
as The Driver1970 The Buttercup Chain
as Hogarth1969 Where's Jack?
as Captain1969 Hamlet

TV Shows/Series with Michael Elphick as Actor(18)

1993 Harry
as Bill Todd1991 Murder Most Horrid
as himself1991 Pebble Mill
as Ken Boon1986 Boon
as Roly Roofless1985 Super Gran
as Sam Tyler1985 Three Up, Two Down
1984 Oxbridge Blues
as Magowan1983 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1982 Smiley's People
1981 Private Schulz
as Vettius1981 Masada
1979 Shoestring
as Sergeant Garbett1977 The Professionals
1976 The Ghosts of Motley Hall
as Jimmy Fleet1975 The Sweeney
as Gorenflot1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1972 Crown Court
as Peter Rodwell1971 Justice

Full Name: Michael Elphick
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 09/19 1946 (September) in Chichester, Sussex, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Saturday, 09/07 2002 (September) in Willesden (aged: 55)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Central School of Speech and Drama
Michael Elphick frequently works together with these people:
Derek Francis (6x, Actor)
Tony Caunter (6x, Actor)
Geoffrey Palmer (5x, Actor)
John Bryans (5x, Actor)
Brian Wilde (5x, Actor)
Kenneth Watson (5x, Actor)
David Lynch (4x, Crew)
Peter Ustinov (4x, Actor)
William Shakespeare (4x, Crew)
Maureen Lipman (4x, Actress)
John Forgeham (4x, Actor)
George Innes (4x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:13341, Added: 05/06/2018, Last updated: 03/27/2024