Michael Kitchen

ActorProduction Oct 31 (age 77) Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK 1965–2025 (60 year career)

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Biography

Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as DCS Foyle in the British TV series Foyle's War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kitchen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

GoldenEye

Bill Tanner

Film

Out of Africa

Berkeley Cole

Film

The World Is Not Enough

Tanner

Film

My Week with Marilyn

Hugh Perceval

Film

Proof of Life

Ian Havery

Film

Foyle's War

DCS Foyle

Film

The Russia House

Clive

Film

To Play the King

The King

Filmography

Acting (111)

Movies (66)

Mrs. Weekley's Lover

2025

as D.H. Lawrence

The Kemps: All Gold

2023

as John Farrow

The Kemps: All True

as Harvey Stickles

Hacks

as Stanhope Feast

My Week with Marilyn

as Hugh Perceval

Falling

as Henry Kent

Alibi

as Greg Brentwood

Adolf & Eva

as Narrator (voice)

Lorna Doone

2001

as Judge Jeffrey

5.7

The Secret World of Michael Fry

2000

as Herbie

Proof of Life

as Ian Havery

The Railway Children

as Father

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

as Lloyd George

New Year's Day

as Robin

The World Is Not Enough

1999

as Tanner

6.3

Reckless: The Sequel

1998

as Richard Crane

The Last Contract

1998

as John Gales alias Ray Lambert

Mrs. Dalloway

as Peter Walsh

A Royal Scandal

as Lord Malmesbury

Wilderness

as Luther Adams

GoldenEye

as Bill Tanner

Kidnapped

as William Reid

The Hanging Gale

as Captain William Townsend

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

1995

as Jeremy Swain

8.0

Fatherland

1994

as SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger

6.2

Doomsday Gun

1994

as Doctor Christopher Cowley

The Trial

as Block

Hostage

as Fredericks

The Guilty

as Steven Vey

Hamlet

as Narrator

Enchanted April

1991

as George Briggs

6.7

The War That Never Ends

1991

as 2nd Athenian Representative

The Russia House

as Clive

Fools of Fortune

as Mr Quinton

Crossing to Freedom

as Maj. Diessen

Home Run

as Bill English

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

as Smiley Face

The Dive

as Bricks

Benefactors

Customer Service From Hell

1989

Brimstone and Treacle

as Martin Taylor

Out of Africa

as Berkeley Cole

Love Song

as Young William Hatchard

The Browning Version

1985

as Frank Hunter

6.2

The Comedy of Errors

1983

as Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse

6.0

King Lear

1982

as Edmund

6.0

A Room for the Winter

as Stephen

The Bunker

as Rochus Misch

The Misanthrope

as Acaste

Bedroom Farce

as Nick

Breaking Glass

as Larner

Caught on a Train

as Peter

School Play

as Rose S J

The Long and the Short and the Tall

1979

as Private Bamforth

No Man's Land

1978

as Foster

7.0

Beasts: What Big Eyes

1976

as Bob Curry

The Imp of the Perverse

1975

as The Student

Sleepwalker

1975

as Ian

6.0

Once the Killing Starts

1974

as George Newton

7.0

The Monkey's Paw

1973

as Herbert White

The Four Beauties

1973

as Henry

Dracula A.D. 1972

1972

as Greg

5.9

The Reporters

1972

as Alan

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

1971

as Bungabine

6.8

Hell's Angel

1971

as Dick Foster

Is That Your Body, Boy

1970

as Waller

Television (45)

Brian Pern: A Life in Rock

2014

as John Farrow

8.5

White Heat

2012

as Jack (present day)

Mobile

as David West

Foyle's War

as DCS Foyle

A History of Britain

as Reader

Lorna Doone

as Judge Jeffreys

Second Sight

The Secret World of Michael Fry

as Herbie

Oliver Twist

as Mr. Brownlow

Reckless

as Richard Crane

Sunnyside Farm

Dalziel & Pascoe

Wilderness

as Luther Adams

The Buccaneers

as Sir Helmsley Thwaite

5.7

The Hanging Gale

1995

as Capt. William Townsend

4.3

Pie in the Sky

1994

as Dudley Hooperman

8.3

Harry Enfield and Chums

1994

as David the Director

7.1

Dandelion Dead

1994

as Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong

To Play the King

as The King

Rik Mayall Presents

as Jeremy Swain

A Touch of Frost

Between the Lines

as Roger Boshier

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Narrator (voice)

The Advocates

Chancer

as Roman

Stay Lucky

Inspector Morse

as Russell Clark

Lovejoy

as David Herbert

Screen Two

as Block

Freud

as Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow

3.0

Lady Killers

1980

as Reverend Father M'Enery

5.0

Tales of the Unexpected

as Arthur

Minder

as Maltese Tony

The Professionals

as Duffy

Beasts

as Bob Curry

Playhouse

as Rose S.J.

Churchill's People

as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Fall of Eagles

as Trotsky

Thriller

as George Newton

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

as Herbert White

Centre Play

as The Student

The Brontës of Haworth

1973

as Branwell Brontë

Play for Today

1970

as Dick Foster

6.3

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Acaste

5.0

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965

as Waller

3.4

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Foyle's War

2002

Consulting Producer

7.8