Michael Gothard
Acting
Biography
British actor who may be best remembered as the villainous Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only. A native of Hendon, Middlesex, England, Gothard made his feature film debut as Max, the young poet star of director Don Levy’s drama Herostratus (1967). Specializing in characters with odd traits and personalities, Gothard also appeared in Scream and Scream Again (1970); The Last Valley (1971); The Devils (1971); Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972); The Three Musketeers (1973); Warlords of the Deep (1978); Lifeforce (1985); and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). Sadly he committed suicide after a bout with depression.
Born: June 24, 1939
Place of Birth: Hendon - Middlesex - England - UK
Known For
The Professionals
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers was a BBC drama series and a follow-up to the 1966–67 10-episode serial The Three Musketeers. Based on Alexander Dumas' novel Twenty Years After, this 16-episode series follows Athos, Porthos and Aramis, along with new recruit d'Artagnan, as they continue to protect the name and throne of the King.
The Devils
Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.
Arthur of the Britons
This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. Arthur struggles to weave the scattered tribes of Celts, Jutes, etc. into a union that can effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who are arriving in Britain in growing numbers. He is aided by his adoptive father, Llud, and his foster brother, Kai, who is himself a Saxon foundling.
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.
Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.
Minder
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Shoestring
Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Filmography
as Boatswain
as Xaros
as Zabo
as George Lusk
as Ennio Volpe
as Dr. Bukovsky
as Jake Cutler
as Terry Marvin
as Marvin
as Athelstone
as Emile Leopold Locque
as Gaspard
as Sergei
as Harry
as Atmir
as Volthan
as Kodai
as Felton
as Felton
as Kai
as Olivier
as Albie
as Father Pierre Barre
as Hansen
as Keith
as Weber
as John
as Terry
as Max
as Mordaunt
as Kuno
as Kuno