Michael York(I)
- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Michael York was born in Fulmer, England, 27 March 1942. He performed
on stage with the National Youth Theatre in London's East End and on
international tour. Other early acting experience came through the
Oxford University Dramatic Society (he graduated from Oxford in1964), the
Dundee Repertory, and Laurence Olivier's National Theater Company -
where he worked with Franco Zeffirelli, who gave him his film debut as Lucentio
in The Taming of The Shrew (1967) and his breakthrough role as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1968). He achieved
early TV acclaim for his portrayal of Jolyon in The Forsyte Saga (1967). Other notable
early movie roles include Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), Count Andrenyi in
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and D'Artagnan in several Musketeers films. He has starred in
over 50 TV movies, continued stage work, starring on Broadway, made
many spoken word recordings, written and lectured internationally. His
autobiography (1993) was issued as "Accidentally on Purpose" in the
U.S. and "Travelling Player" in Britain. He was in the hit The Omega Code (1999) with
Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien. He had a great part in all of the "Austin Powers"
films.