
Michael York
Actor
- Born
- March 27, 1942 (age 84) · Fulmer, England, UK
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976).
In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001).
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In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
Known for
Acting137
- 2026The Crystal Planet as The Patriarch (voice)
- 2025Dreams as Private Agent
- 2014Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora as Self
- 2014Sleeping Beauty as The Narrator
- 2013Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals as Self
- 2012Flatland²: Sphereland as Spherius (voice)
- 2012Earth Songs as Narrator
- 2011Glad Christmas Tidings Featuring David Archuleta as Self
- 2011The Mill and the Cross as Nicolaes Jonghelinck
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