Michael Elphick

Actor Sep 19 (died age 55) Chichester, Sussex, England, UK 1956–2003 (47 year career)

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Biography

Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.

Known For

Film

The Elephant Man

Night Porter

Film

Withnail & I

Jake

Film

Asterix and the Big Fight

Crysus (voice- English version)

Film

The First Great Train Robbery

Burgess

Film

Quadrophenia

Father

Film

Krull

Rhun (voice) (uncredited)

Film

Gorky Park

Pasha

Film

Pirates

Sentry

Filmography

Acting (108)

Movies (62)

Out of Bounds

as Lionel Stubbs

The Fix

as Peter Campling

Streetwise

as Narrator

Richard III

as 2nd Murderer

Treasure Island

as Billy Bones

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy

1992

as Dr. Nathaniel Bonner

Let Him Have It

1991

as Prison Officer Jack

Buddy's Song

as Des

The Krays

as George - Prisoner

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

1990

as Inspector Cleaver

5.3

Asterix and the Big Fight

1989

as Crysus (voice- English version)

Withnail & I

as Jake

Little Dorrit

as Mr. Merdle

Pirates

as Sentry

Valhalla

as Udgaardsloki (voice)

6.8

Bird Fancier

1985

as Joe Desmond

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

as Ernst Röhm

The Supergrass

as Constable Collins

Which Side Are You On?

as Narrator (voice)

Ordeal by Innocence

as Inspector Huish

The Element of Crime

as Fisher

Memed My Hawk

as Jabbar

C.Q.

as Norman

Much Ado About Nothing

1984

as Dogberry

6.3

Arthur's Hallowed Ground

1984

as Len

7.0

Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime

1984

as Self - Actor/Fisher

Krull

1983

as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)

6.0

Gorky Park

1983

as Pasha

6.3

Curse of the Pink Panther

1983

as Valencia Police Chief

4.6

Privates on Parade

1983

as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond

4.5

Chains

1982

as Eddie

Pocketful of Dreams

1982

as Charlie

The Elephant Man

as Night Porter

Quadrophenia

as Father

Black Island

as Jack Daker

The Knowledge

as Gordon Weller

Blue Remembered Hills

1979

as Peter

6.5

The First Great Train Robbery

1978

as Burgess

6.7

Hanging Around

1978

as Hank

Cold Harbour

1978

as Barrister at Party

Red Shift

as Thomas Venables

The Odd Job

as Raymonde

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

1978

as Michel

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

1978

as Wallace Parnell

Last Summer

as Oscar

A Good Human Story

Play Things

as Frank

Three Men in a Boat

1975

as 2nd Porter

6.0

Norma

1974

as Norma's Friend

Pig Bin

1974

as Policeman

The Nearly Man

1974

as Ron Hibbert

O Lucky Man!

1973

as Man at Stag Party

6.8

And Now the Screaming Starts!

1973

as Drunk

5.9

That Sinking Feeling

1973

as Chopper

Adult Fun

as Garage Manager

See No Evil

as Gypsy Tom

Man Charged

as Robert Delmonds

Cry of the Banshee

as Burke

The Buttercup Chain

as The Driver

The Betrayal

as Tom

Hamlet

as Captain

Where's Jack?

as Hogarth

Television (46)

Metropolis

2000

as Andrew Kaplan

David Copperfield

as Barkis

Modern Times

Pirates

as Chief Inspector Hornbeam

Harry

as Harry Salter

Murder Most Horrid

as Bill Todd

Pebble Mill

as Self

Boon

as Ken Boon

Super Gran

as Roly Roofless

Three Up, Two Down

as Sam Tyler

Jenny's War

as Schumann

Late Starter

as Jack Owen

Oxbridge Blues

as Curly Bonaventura

Pull The Other One

as Sidney Mundy

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

1983

as Magowan

7.9

Bloomfield

1983

as Billy Gibbs

The Comic Strip Presents...

1982

as Collins

7.4

Smiley's People

1982

as Detective Chief Inspector

Masada

as Vettius

Private Schulz

as Gerhard Schulz

Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1981

as Stanley

Cribb

as Sol Herriott

Shoestring

as Pete Johnson

Hazell

as Griffiths

Send in the Girls

as Jimmy

The Professionals

as Sergeant Garbett

The Sunday Drama

as Ralph Winters

The Sound of Laughter

1977

as Ernie Randle

This Year Next Year

1977

as Jack Shaw

7.0

Holding On

1977

as Charlie Wheelwright

The Ghosts of Motley Hall

1976

as Captain Narcissus Bullock

7.5

Laurence Olivier Presents

as Michel

The Sweeney

as Jimmy Fleet

Playhouse

as Frank

The Nearly Man

as Ron Hibbert

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

1973

as Gorenflot

6.8

Second City Firsts

1973

as Policeman

Crown Court

as Simon Chase

New Scotland Yard

Justice

as Peter Rodwell

Play for Today

as Peter

The Roads to Freedom

as Lieutenant of Chasseurs

4.1

The Misfit

1970

as Mike Halloran

ITV Playhouse

as Norma's friend

Coronation Street

as Douglas Wormold

Armchair Theatre

as Robert Delmonds