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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, 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 the Second World War, 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.〔(Michael Goodliffe: Wartime Shakespearean Actor and Producer )〕 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 Noël Coward's ''Post Mortem'' at Eichstätt. A full photographic record〔http://www.mgoodliffe.co.uk〕 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, designer 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, while a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.〔 ==Filmography== * ''The Small Back Room'' (1949) * ''Stop Press Girl'' (1949) * ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950) * ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' (1951) * ''Captain Horatio Hornblower'' (1951) * ''Sea Devils'' (1953) * ''Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue'' (1953) * ''Front Page Story'' (1954) * ''The Crowded Day'' (1954) * ''The End of the Affair'' (1955) * ''The Adventures of Quentin Durward'' (1955) * ''Wicked as They Come'' (1956) * ''The Battle of the River Plate'' (1956) * ''Fortune Is a Woman'' (1957) * ''The One That Got Away'' (1957) * ''Three Crooked Men'' (1958) * ''Carve Her Name With Pride'' (1958) * ''The Camp on Blood Island'' (1958) * ''Up the Creek'' (1958) * ''A Night to Remember'' (1958) * ''Further Up the Creek'' (1958) * ''The 39 Steps'' (1959) * ''The Battle of the Sexes'' (1959) * ''Sink the Bismarck!'' (1960) * ''Conspiracy of Hearts'' (1960) * ''Peeping Tom'' (1960) * ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'' (1960) * ''No Love for Johnnie'' (1961) * ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961) * ''Jigsaw'' (1962) * ''80,000 Suspects'' (1963) * ''Man in the Middle'' (1963) * ''A Stitch in Time'' (1963) * ''Troubled Waters'' (1964) * ''Woman of Straw'' (1964) * ''633 Squadron'' (1964) * ''The Gorgon'' (1964) * ''The 7th Dawn'' (1964) * ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965) * ''The Night of the Generals'' (1967) * ''The Jokers'' (1967) * ''The Fixer'' (1968) * ''The Fifth Day of Peace'' (1970) * ''Cromwell'' (1970) * ''Henry VIII and His Six Wives'' (1972) * ''Hitler: The Last Ten Days'' (1973) * ''The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974) * ''To the Devil a Daughter'' (1976) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Goodliffe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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