Keith Michell

Keith Michell was born on Dec 01, 1926 in Australia. Keith Michell's big-screen debut came with Dangerous Exile directed by Brian Desmond Hurst in 1957, strarring Colonel St. Gerard. Keith Michell is known for The Prince and the Pauper directed by Andrew Morgan, Philip Sarson stars as Prince Edward and John Bowe as The Duke of Somerset. Keith Michell has got 3 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Keith Michell achieved is Evening Standard British Film Awards. The upcoming new movie Keith Michell plays is Love/Loss which will be released on Jan 01, 2010.

Keith Michell was an Emmy Award-winning Australian stage, television, and film actor. Born 1 December 1926 in Adelaide, South Australia, he was brought up some 150 miles away, in Warnertown, on the Augusta Highway between Crystal Brook and Port Pirie. He taught art until he made his debut on the Adelaide stage in 1947, following that up with his first appearance in London in 1951.Michell was a member of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company. From 1974-77, he was the artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. He has starred in several musicals, including the first London production of Man of La Mancha (1972). In addition to his stage work, he appeared extensively in film and television in Australia and the UK, most notably as King Henry VIII in the six-part 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), for which he won an Emmy Award. A movie version was made in 1972. On US television, he appeared in various episodes of Murder, She Wrote (1984). In addition to acting, he wrote a musical adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt', called "Pete McGynty and the Dreamtime". He also paints and illustrates books, as well as written and illustrated cookbooks.Michell married the Anglo-Czech actress Jeanette Sterke in 1957; they had two children: actor Paul Michell and actress Helena Michell. He died on 20 November 2015, aged 88, in Hampstead, London, England. A theater in Port Pirie, the Keith Mitchell Theatre-Northern Festival Centre, was founded in his honor.