Michael Jayston

ActorComposer Oct 29 (died age 88) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK 1956–2024 (68 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Michael James (born 29 October 1935), known professionally as Michael Jayston, was an English actor. He played Nicholas II of Russia in the film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). He has also made many television appearances, which have included playing the Valeyard in all fourteen episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord (1986) and appearing in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Time on Our Hands" (1996) as Raquel's father, James.

Known For

Film

Doctor Who

The Valeyard

Film

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Peter Guillam

Film

Highlander III: The Sorcerer

Jack Donovan

Film

First Kid

Original Music Composer

Film

Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas

Film

Cromwell

Henry Ireton

Film

Zulu Dawn

Col. Crealock

Film

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)

Filmography

Acting (87)

Movies (45)

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

as self

6.0

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

as Self

7.8

From This Day Forward

2019

as Him

The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years

2019

UFO From Earth to the Moon

as Self

Albert's Memorial

as Albert

The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord

2008

Finisterre

2003

as Narrator (Voice)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as Admiral Sellings

Element of Doubt

as Kirk

Highlander III: The Sorcerer

1994

as Jack Donovan

4.8

Somewhere to Run

1989

as Roger Fitzpatrick

Still Crazy Like a Fox

1987

as Randall Perry

7.7

Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet

1986

as The Valeyard

6.2

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe

as The Valeyard

Doctor Who: Mindwarp

as The Valeyard

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

1986

as The Valeyard

6.2

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

From a Far Country

as Narrator (voice)

Dominique

as Arnold Craven

Gossip from the Forest

1979

as Alfred Maiberling

Zulu Dawn

1979

as Col. Crealock

6.1

The Last Romantic

1978

as James

She Fell Among Thieves

1978

as Mansel

7.0

King Lear

1975

as Edmund

The Internecine Project

1974

as David Baker

5.9

Craze

1974

as Detective Sgt. Wall

4.9

The Importance of Being Earnest

1974

as Jack Worthing

A Coffin for the Bride

1974

as Mark Walker

8.3

Tales That Witness Madness

1973

as Brian (segment "Mel")

5.4

The Merchant of Venice

as Gratiano

The Homecoming

as Teddy

Bequest to the Nation

as Capt. Hardy

Ring Once for Death

as Roger Masters

Follow Me!

as Charles

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1972

as Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)

6.2

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Nicholas

6.9

Competition

1971

as Jimmy

Green Julia

1971

as Jake

Cromwell

as Henry Ireton

Macbeth

as Macbeth

Mad Jack

The Hero of My Life

as Charles Dickens

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1968

as Demetrius

6.0

Love's Labour's Lost

1965

as Longaville

Television (42)

Remembers…

2022

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

The Royal

as Henry Appleton

Foyle's War

as AC Henry Parkins

A Dinner of Herbs

as Justice Craig

Holby City

as Judge

Midsomer Murders

as Reverend Arthur Gould

Outside Edge

Heartbeat

as Michael Harvey

The Darling Buds of May

as Ernest Bristow

Cluedo

as Colonel Mustard

Haggard

Press Gang

as Colonel X

Stay Lucky

as Valentine

A Bit of a Do

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1987

as Quentin Nightingale

Casualty

as Ian

Worlds Beyond

as Drayton Thomas

C.A.T.S. Eyes

Time for Murder

as Austin Tupp

Sherlock Holmes

as The Earl of Rufton

Big Deal

as Grover

Lady Killers

as Frederick Henry Seddon

5.0

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as G.B. Shaw

6.7

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

1979

as Peter Guillam

7.6

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Mansel

7.0

Quiller

1975

as Quiller

Churchill's People

1974

as Henry, Bishop of Norwich

Thriller

as Roger Masters

Jane Eyre

as Mr Rochester

Crown Court

as Keith Saunders QC

The Edwardians

as Frederick Henry Royce

Film '72

as Self

UFO

as Russell Stone

Callan

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as John 'Jack' Worthing

5.0

The Power Game

1965

as Lincoln Dowling

The Wednesday Play

as Siegfried Sassoon

Detective

Doctor Who

as The Valeyard

Coronation Street

as Judge

Armchair Theatre

as Jimmy

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

First Kid

1996

Original Music Composer

5.7