Michael Goodliffe
Gender: Male
Born: 1st October 1914
Died: 20th March 1976
Nationality: England, United Kingdom
TV programs: Inheritance, Sam, Callan, Hine
Movies: Von Ryan's Express, The Gorgon, The End of the Affair, The One That Got Away, 633 Squadron, The 39 Steps, Jigsaw, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, To the Devil a Daughter, Up the Creek, Man in the Middle, Peeping Tom, Cromwell, The Battle of the River Plate, Sink the Bismarck!, Sea Devils, The Small Back Room, The 7th Dawn, A Night to Remember, The Fifth Day of Peace, Troubled Waters
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
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