Ralph Michael
Biography
Ralph Michael was an English actor who began his career on the stage, joining The Old Vic for the 1931-1932 season and playing Horatio in Hamlet. Born in London, he moved into films in the late 1930s with False Evidence and later became a contract player at Ealing Studios, where he had small parts in The Bells Go Down before taking larger roles in Johnny Frenchman, The Captive Heart, San Demetrio London and For Those in Peril. His most memorable screen work was the Haunted Mirror sequence of the anthology Dead of Night, released in 1945, and he starred in A Song for Tomorrow and Penny and the Pownall Case. He then settled into supporting parts, among them The Sound Barrier, A Night to Remember, The Heroes of Telemark and Khartoum, and worked widely in television, from The Adventures of Robin Hood and Danger Man to The Forsyte Saga, Doctor Who and Jeeves and Wooster.
87years old at death
- Born Edmonton
- Died Brighton
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Ralph Champion Shotter
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 30 years1945 to 1975
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First role
Ralph Michael started acting at The Old Vic Theatre during the 1931-1932 season. His parts there included Horatio in Hamlet.
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Basil Dearden directed two of these films. Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Basil DeardenDirector, 2 films, 1966 to 1969
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