Overview
Michael York
Known For
Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora
In retracing the making of FEDORA, Robert Fischer’s documentary SWAN...
The Justice of Wolves
1940. Leningrad. In sixth grader Mickey Polyakov light-hearted and happy...
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life....
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Patriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with...
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary...
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and...
Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion
With unprecedented access to "both" Cubas on either side of...
Biography
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976). In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001). In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael York, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.