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Michael Gwynn
Biography:
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Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a Major and was Adjutant to the 2nd. Nyasaland Battalion, Kings African Rifles.
He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord Melbury who attempts to con £200 and a set of British Empire coins from the unsuspecting Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. Gwynn appears as Lord Melbury in the first ever episode of the series, "A Touch of Class".
Gwynn also appeared on several adaptations of plays on the Caedmon... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2016-09-12 |
The Portable Phonograph as The Music Lover | 1977-05-01 |
Spy Story as Dawlish | 1976-01-01 |
A Coffin for the Bride as Oliver Mason | 1974-05-31 |
Scars of Dracula as The Priest | 1970-11-08 |
The Virgin Soldiers as Lt Col Bromley-Pickering | 1969-10-14 |
The Deadly Bees as Doctor Lang | 1966-12-23 |
Catch Us If You Can as Hardingford | 1965-07-15 |
The Fall of the Roman Empire as Cornelius | 1964-03-24 |
The Horse Without a Head as Gendarme | 1964-03-09 |
Jason and the Argonauts as Hermes | 1963-06-19 |
Cleopatra as Cimber | 1963-06-12 |
Some People as Vicar | 1962-05-31 |
Barabbas as Lazarus | 1961-12-23 |
Question 7 as Friedrich Gottfried | 1961-09-28 |
What a Carve Up! as Malcolm Broughton | 1961-09-15 |
Village of the Damned as Alan Bernard | 1960-06-16 |
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger as Prosecutor | 1960-03-04 |
The Doctor's Dilemma as Dr. Blenkinsop | 1959-01-01 |
The Revenge of Frankenstein as Karl | 1958-06-13 |
The Camp on Blood Island as Tom Shields | 1958-04-15 |
Dunkirk as Commander (Sheerness) | 1958-03-20 |
The Secret Place as Steve Waring | 1957-02-06 |
The Runaway Bus as 1st Transport Officer | 1953-09-28 |