Michael York
Michael York was born in Fulmer, England, United Kingdom on March 27th, 1942 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 82, Michael York biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Michael Hugh Johnson (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English actor and voice actor who plays Michael York.
Are You My Mother? A two-time Emmy Award nominee for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001) he has appeared in more than 70 films, including Romeo and Juliet (1968), Logan's Run (1976), and the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002).
Early life
York was born in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, son of Florence Edith May Chown, a guitarist, and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery-born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks & Spencer department stores, and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery-born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive. According to Penelope Anne (born 1940) and her younger twin sisters Caroline and Bridget (born 1947), Bridget died a few hours after birth. He was born in Burgess Hill, Sussex.
York was educated at Bromley Grammar School for Boys, Hurstpierpoint College, and Oxford University College, Oxford, during his teenage years. He appeared in the community theatre Bromley Little Theatre early in its history and is now president. He eventually joined the National Youth Theatre, as well as appearing with the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the University College Players. He started his work in a 1956 version of The Yellow Jacket. He made his West End debut in 1959 with a small part in Hamlet's production. Since there was already a "Michael Johnson" registered with Equity, he changed his name to "Michael York."
Personal life
Patricia McCallum was assigned to photograph him in 1967, and the couple married on March 27, 1968, York's 26th birthday. Rick McCallum, a director of Star Wars, is his stepson. In 1977, York was selected to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
York revealed in 2013 that he was suffering from amyloidosis, a rare condition. Doctors had no idea he had bone cancer at first. He underwent stem cell transplantation in 2012, which can relieve symptoms.
In 2022, York and his wife moved to Rochester, Minnesota, to be closer to Mayo Clinic Hospital for treatment.
Career
York had toured with the National Youth Theatre before graduating with a degree in English from the University of Oxford in 1964. After some time with the Dundee Repertory Theatre, where he appeared in Brendan Behan's The Hostage, York joined National Theatre under Laurence Olivier, where he appeared with Franco Zeffirelli in 1965's Much Ado About Nothing. In Jolyon (Jolly) in The Forsyte Saga (1967), York made his film debut as Lucentio in Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew (1967). In Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, he was cast as Tybalt. He appeared in The Guru (1969), then appeared in Something for Everyone (1970). He portrayed a World War I soldier with tumultuous family loyalties who appears to be siding with the Germans in the 1971 film Zeppelin. In Bob Fosse's film version of Cabaret (1972), he portrayed bisexual Brian Roberts. In Conduct Unbecoming, the first of three films he did with director Michael Anderson, he portrayed a British soldier in 19th century colonial India. In Jesus of Nazareth, he reunited with Franco Zeffirelli as John the Baptist.
In the 1973 revival of Tennessee Williams' Out Cry, York appeared as D'Artagnan, and he made his Broadway debut in the original production of Out Cry. The Four Musketeers sequel was announced a year later (roughly covering events in the second half of the book) titled The Four Musketeers. The majority of the cast (and crew) of A Return of the Musketeers, based on the Dumas' Twenty Years After film, joined together in a new film called The Return of the Musketeers. In Logan's Run (1976), a fugitive who tries to flee a computer-controlled world, he played the title character. He appeared in The Island of Dr. Moreau opposite Burt Lancaster the following year.
York has had a lengthy and varied career in film, television, and stage since his inception in early life. Ezekiel Crane, the lighthouse keeper of Avonlea and Gus Pike's foster father, appeared in two episodes in the second season of the Road to Avonlea series. Bent (1980), The Crucible (1992), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (1993), and The Little Prince and the Aviator (1982), which both closed during previews, are among his Broadway performances. As a reader, he has made several sound recordings, including Harper Audio's production of C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
York appeared in the 1996 Babylon 5 episode "A Late Delivery From Avalon" as a delusional man who wished to be King Arthur returns. In Camelot, he will play King Arthur in A Knight. During the fourth season of Gilmore Girls, he appeared as Professor Asher Fleming, a 60-year-old Yale professor and boyfriend of Yale student Paris Geller (Liza Weil). In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Hawk & Dove," he appeared in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Zatanna" and Kanto in the Superman series "Tools of the Trade" and Ares. Stone Alexander, the Antichrist from Christian eschatology, appeared in both The Omega Code and its sequel Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 as both York and its sequel Megiddo: The Omega Code 2.
On seaQuest 2032, he played President Alexander Bourne of Macaronesia. In all three of Austin Powers' films, Basil Exposition appeared. In "Homer's Paternity Coot," Mason Fairbanks, Homer Simpson's potential father, appeared on The Simpsons as Mason Fairbanks, Homer Simpson's potential father. Bernard Fremont was portrayed in the Law & Order episode "Slither" in 2006, and it was based on real life serial murderer Charles Sobhraj. In several episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm's third season as an investor in Larry's new restaurant 'BoBo's, he also appeared as a fictionalized version of himself. He lent his voice to Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2009.
In The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, Pterano told Petrie's uncle. In 2009, he narrated the entire Bible for The Word of Promise Audio Bible, a star-studded version of the New King James Version. In a revival of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, which opened at the La Mirada Theatre in Southern California and toured nationally in 2006 and 2007.
In The Truth & Life Dramatized New Testament Bible, a 22-hour audio dramatization of the New Testament that uses the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition translation, York portrays Luke. York appeared on BBC Wales' Come Home about his Welsh family history in 2008. In September 2013, York appeared in the Gala Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London.