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Michael Gwynn

Michael Gwynn
  • Name: Michael Gwynn
  • Birthday: 1916-11-30
  • Place of birth: Bath, Somerset, England, U.K.
  • Popularity: 0.136
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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

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Title Release date
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