Michael Gothard
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Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor who appeared Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the enigmatic villain Emile Leopold Locque in 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
Early life
Michael Gothard was born in 1939 in London. He lived in both Wales and London as a child. After graduating from Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He worked as a building laborer and a trainee reporter, among other things. He did have a brief stint as a clothes model, but he never felt confident doing it. "I was as rigid as a board, and I couldn't get my mind off the ridiculous," he said. I was a clothes hanger, not a person."
Career
He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover and became part of an amateur film a friend was directing. Since landing the lead role, he was encouraged to pursue the career. When he wasn't working a day job, he attended evening classes at an actors' workshop. He appeared in several of the first "Lunchtime Theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. In 1966, his first television appearance was in "The Machine Stops," an episode of Out of the Unknown. He appeared in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and 1968, and Up the Junction in 1968. Since being in the role of Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers), he developed a female following.
Keith's appearance in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and pointing to other, more prominent roles. Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes (in an Austin-Healey vehicle) from the police ever seen in the film. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee were the film's main stars. "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the greatest thing ever happened," executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that this was going to be the best thing ever." He had that amazing look and that drive, and he was so amazing. Here is a child who threw himself into the picture in a nutshell. Do you recall the scene where he appears to be scaling the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I'd say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy.' I am not one of them.' But the boy decided to do it without a double; he was that motivated. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) suggested that instead of using an overhead cable to create the appearance of him walking up the cliff.
He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film The Devils, in which Gothard plays a zealous witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. In Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972), his appearance as a young disillusioned hippie contrasted with the rest of his career. In Richard Lester's 1973 film The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, He also played a fictionalized version of the 17th century assassination of John Felton.
During the early 1970s, he appeared on Kai opposite Oliver Tobias' King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons. Emile Leopold Locque, the narcotic (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, he became known to a wider cinema audience. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an attempt to make the character more menacing. He appeared in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror film, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in Michael Caine's 1988 TV film Jack the Ripper. In a Hammer House of Mysteries and Suspense, he appeared alongside Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight (a.k.a.). The Sweet Scent of Death, a Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, 1992, was one of his last major appearances.
Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid appeared in David Wickes' Frankenstein.