Michael Kitchen
Acting
Biography
Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as DCS Foyle in the British TV series Foyle's War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kitchen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: October 31, 1948
Place of Birth: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Known For
Brian Pern: A Life in Rock
Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather than make new music, he spends more time trying to save the planet (including his campaign to teach gorillas how to Skype). Now, the BBC have asked him to front a major new documentary where he presents his guide to The Life Of Rock from prehistoric man to the present day.
A History of Britain
Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.
Pie in the Sky
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.
Dandelion Dead
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
To Play the King
Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
Lorna Doone
Passionate love story set in 17th century rural England, charting the young John Ridd's search for revenge after his father's murder, and the chance encounter with beautiful Lorna Doone that changes the course of his life.
A Touch of Frost
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
Filmography
as D.H. Lawrence
as John Farrow
as John Farrow
as Jack (present day)
as Stanhope Feast
as Hugh Perceval
as David West
as Henry Kent
as Greg Brentwood
as DCS Foyle
as Judge Jeffrey
as Judge Jeffreys
as Ian Havery
as Reader
as Lloyd George
as Father
as Herbie
as Robin
as Mr. Brownlow
as Tanner
as Richard Crane
as John Gales alias Ray Lambert
as Lord Malmesbury
as Peter Walsh
as Richard Crane
as Luther Adams
as Luther Adams
as Bill Tanner
as William Reid
as Capt. William Townsend
as Jeremy Swain
as Sir Helmsley Thwaite
as Captain William Townsend
as SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger
as David the Director
as Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
as Doctor Christopher Cowley
as Dudley Hooperman
as The King
as Block
as Jeremy Swain
as Narrator (voice)
as Polixenes (voice)
as Roger Boshier
as Steven Vey
as Fredericks
as George Briggs
as 2nd Athenian Representative
as Clive
as Mr Quinton
as Maj. Diessen
as Roman
as Bill English
as Bricks
as Martin Taylor
as Russell Clark
as David Herbert
as Frank Hunter
as Berkeley Cole
as Block
as Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
as Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse
as Edmund
as Rochus Misch
as Peter
as Larner
as Reverend Father M'Enery
as Acaste
as Maltese Tony
as Arthur
as Rose S J
as Private Bamforth
as Foster
as Duffy
as Bob Curry
as Bob Curry
as Ian
as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
as Trotsky
as Rose S.J.
as Peter
as George Newton
as Herbert White
as Branwell Brontë
as Herbert White
as George Newton
as Ian
as Alan
as Greg
as Bungabine
as Dick Foster
as Dick Foster
as Alan
as Acaste
as Waller
as Narrator