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Michael York

Biography

Michael York is an English actor who came through the National Youth Theatre and the Royal National Theatre before Franco Zeffirelli cast him as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1968), his breakthrough. He had already appeared in Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967), and he went on to lead major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s, among them Cabaret (1972), where he played Brian Roberts, The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequels, as D'Artagnan, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Logan's Run (1976), as the fugitive Logan 5. In later years he was Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series, from 1997 to 2002. His stage credits include Broadway plays such as Bent, The Crucible and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, and he has voiced animated characters and recorded narration, including a reading of the Bible. He has a Hollywood Walk of Fame star and was awarded the OBE.

84years old

Turns 85 on March 27in 166 days

  • Born Fulmer
  • Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
  • Michael Hugh Johnson (birth name)

Movie Career

Films
36
Career span
47 years1967 to 2014

Genres

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  1. Early training

    During the 1965 staging of Much Ado About Nothing, York worked with Franco Zeffirelli, having joined the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier.

  2. Beyond film

    In 2009, York did the narration for the whole Bible in The Word of Promise Audio Bible, which is a performance of the New King James Version.

Michael York movies on Netflix

Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery1997 Comedy, Sci-Fias Basil Exposition

    IMDb rating 7.0276K votes

  2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me1999 Action, Adventure, Comedyas Basil Exposition

    IMDb rating 6.7265K votes

  3. Austin Powers in Goldmember2002as Basil Exposition

    IMDb rating 6.3237K votes

  4. Logan's Run1976as Logan

    IMDb rating 6.866K votes

  5. Cabaret1972as Brian Roberts

    IMDb rating 7.864K votes

  6. The Three Musketeers1973as D'Artagnan

    IMDb rating 7.121K votes

  7. The Four Musketeers1974as D'Artagnan

    IMDb rating 6.913K votes

  8. Romeo and Juliet1968as Tybalt

    IMDb rating 7.638K votes

Most often with

Jay Roach directed three of these films, Richard Lester three and Michael Anderson two. Two actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Michael York's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$891 million

16 of the 36 films have a worldwide figure.

Of the 36 films: 16 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 4 never in cinemas; 14 figure not found.

  • 16Worldwide figure
  • 2US gross only
  • 4Never in cinemas
  • 14Figure not found

Highest grossing

The eight biggest films earned 94% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    $312M35.0% of the total
  2. 2
    Austin Powers in Goldmember2002as Basil Exposition
    $297M33.3% of the total
  3. 3
    $68M7.6% of the total
  4. 4
    Cabaret1972as Brian Roberts
    $43M4.8% of the total
  5. 5
    Romeo and Juliet1968as Tybalt
    $39M4.4% of the total
  6. 6
    Murder on the Orient Express1974as Count Andrenyi
    $36M4.0% of the total
  7. 7
    Logan's Run1976as Logan
    $25M2.8% of the total
  8. 8
    The Three Musketeers1973as D'Artagnan
    $22M2.5% of the total
The Omega Code (1999), $12.6 millionWrongfully Accused (1998), $9.6 millionThe Four Musketeers (1974), $8.8 millionThe Taming of the Shrew (1967), $8.0 millionMegiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001), $6.0 millionLost Horizon (1973), $3.8 millionThe Mill and the Cross (2011), $1.1 millionBorstal Boy (2000), $87,400

$50.0 millionfrom the other 8 films with a worldwide figure, 6% of the total

Awards

Five awards and honors.

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Michael York's awards and nominations, grouped by award
YearAwardFilmResult
Other honors
Audie Award for Best Male NarratorWon
Mary Pickford AwardWon
Officer of the Order of the British EmpireWon
Order of Danica HrvatskaWon
Star on Hollywood Walk of FameHonored

Online

Official profiles and reference pages.

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