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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 Edmund's 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 Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noel Coward's 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.
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Filmography
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Movies 66
TV Shows 16
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Voice 1

Dark Arts: Inside 'To the Devil a Daughter' (2018)

To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

In Sickness and in Health (1975)

Sam (1973)

Don't Be Like Brenda (1973)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

The Protectors (1972)

Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

The Company Man (1970)

Macbeth (1970)

Cromwell (1970)

The 5th Day of Peace (1970)

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969)

The Fixer (1968)

The Jokers (1967)

The Connoisseur (1966)

Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)

Von Ryan's Express (1965)

Troubled Waters (1964)

The Gorgon (1964)

The 7th Dawn (1964)

Woman of Straw (1964)

633 Squadron (1964)

Man in the Middle (1964)

80,000 Suspects (1963)

The £20,000 Kiss (1962)

The Saint (1962)

Jigsaw (1962)

Number Six (1962)

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

No Love for Johnnie (1961)

Julius Caesar (1960)

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)

The Battle of the Sexes (1960)

Testament of Orpheus (1960)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Interpol Calling (1959)

The White Trap (1959)

Further Up the Creek (1958)

Three Crooked Men (1958)

A Night to Remember (1958)

Up the Creek (1958)

Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

Steel Town (1958)

Chaucer's England (1958)

The One That Got Away (1957)

Fortune Is a Woman (1957)

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

Wicked as They Come (1956)

Link Span (1956)

Dial 999 (1955)

Quentin Durward (1955)

Dixon of Dock Green (1955)

Front Page Story (1954)

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953)

The Hour of 13 (1952)

Ocean Terminal (1952)

Plan for Coal (1952)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Family Portrait (1950)

Stop Press Girl (1949)

Inheritance

Cities At War
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1914-10-01
Deathday1976-03-20 (61 years old)
Birth PlaceBebington, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsLawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe
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