From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 (now Merseyside), the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmunds 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 World War II, 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. 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 Shakespeares Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noel Cowards Post Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record 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, builder 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, whilst a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Goodliffe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Thomas Andrews
Film 1958
Don Jarvis
Film 1960
Professor Jules Heitz
Film 1964
English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Film 1960
Detective
Film 1960
John Moffat
Film 1955
Larry Buckham
Film 1956
Squadron Leader Frank Adams
Film 1964
Dr David Muray
Film 1975
Rev. Adrian Tenterden
Film 1966
Till
Film 1949
R.A.F. Interrogator
Film 1957
Shop Customer
Film 1958
Snow
Film 1970
Clyde Burchard
Film 1962
Count De Dunois
Film 1955
Trumphey
Film 1964
Smythe
Film 1955
Father Paul Anjou
Film 1958
Nelson
Film 1958
Detective Insp. Barnes
Film 1957
Jeff Driscoll
Film 1964
Robert Walpole
Film 1953
McPherson
Film 1949
Father Desmaines
Film 1960
Clifford Preston
Film 1963
Robbie
Film 1950
Anderson
Film 1952
Narrator (voice)
Film 1950
Inspector Walters
Film 1959
Narrator (uncredited)
Film 1973
Col. Caillard - POW Escort
Film 1951
Solicitor
Film 1964
Film 1962
Sir Harold Trevitt
Film 1962
Duncan
Film 1970
Film 1952
Mr. Lansing
Film 1970
Mr. Teevee (uncredited)
Film 1971
The Theif
Film 1958
Lt. Commander Blakeney
Film 1958
Martens
Film 1951
Kennedy
Film 1954
Dr. West
Film 1961
David
Film 1970
Narrator (voice)
Film 1952
Narrator (voice)
Film 1956
Coding Expert
Film 1958
Tv 1961
De Santos
Tv 1972
Dr. Quintus
Tv 1962
Tv 1967
Garfield Fenton
Tv 1955
Wolf Barstrom
Tv 1959
Tv 1967
Tv 1962
Tv 1960
Tv 1971
Arthur de Crecy
Tv 1969
Jack Barraclough
Tv 1973
Mr. Oldroyd
Tv 1967