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Michael York

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Biography

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). In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Romeo and Juliet

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Riddle of the Sands

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

As Basil Exposition

Austin Powers in Goldmember

As Basil Exposition

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

As Basil Exposition

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again

As Paul de Lancel

The Three Musketeers

As D'Artagnan

Cabaret

As Brian Roberts

Chains

KinoChain journeys

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The Verse Will Outlive the Stage

Eight films that take Shakespeare's words into new weather, new cities and new blood, proving the plays were never meant to stay indoors.

8 films

Moana and the Sea as Mirror and Crucible

Taking the core premise of Moana (the ocean as a living force that tests, transforms, and reveals who you are) and steering it into far darker territory, this c...

8 films

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