Actor
· Acting
Michael Elphick
Born 1946-09-19
Died 2002-09-07
📍 Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders.
Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.
Filmography 87
David Copperfield
as Barkis
1999
The Fix
as Peter Campling
1997
Streetwise
as Narrator
1996
Richard III
as 2nd Murderer
1995
Treasure Island
as Billy Bones
1995
Modern Times
1995
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
as Dr. Nathaniel Bonner
1992
Stanley and the Women
as Bert Hutchinson
1991
Murder Most Horrid
as Bill Todd
1991
Let Him Have It
as Prison Officer Jack
1991
Buddy's Song
as Des
1991
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
as Inspector Cleaver
1990
The Krays
as George - Prisoner
1990
Little Dorrit
as Mr. Merdle
1987
Withnail & I
as Jake
1987
Valhalla
as Udgaardsloki (voice)
1986
Pirates
as Sentry
1986
Boon
as Ken Boon
1986
The Supergrass
as Constable Collins
1985
Three Up, Two Down
as Sam Tyler
1985
Which Side Are You On?
as Narrator (voice)
1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Ernst Röhm
1985
Super Gran
as Roly Roofless
1985
Bird Fancier
as Joe Desmond
1985
Much Ado About Nothing
as Dogberry
1984
Oxbridge Blues
as Curly Bonaventura
1984
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
as Len
1984
Ordeal by Innocence
as Inspector Huish
1984
The Element of Crime
as Fisher
1984
Memed My Hawk
as Jabbar
1984
C.Q.
as Norman
1984
Gorky Park
as Pasha
1983
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
as Magowan
1983
Curse of the Pink Panther
as Valencia Police Chief
1983
Krull
as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
1983
Privates on Parade
as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
1983
Smiley's People
as Detective Chief Inspector
1982
Chains
as Eddie
1982
Pocketful of Dreams
as Charlie
1982
Private Schulz
as Gerhard Schulz
1981
Masada
as Vettius
1981
The Elephant Man
as Night Porter
1980
Cribb
as Sol Herriott
1980
Shoestring
as Pete Johnson
1979
Quadrophenia
as Father
1979
Blue Remembered Hills
as Peter
1979
The Knowledge
as Gordon Weller
1979
Black Island
as Jack Daker
1979
The First Great Train Robbery
as Burgess
1978
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
as Wallace Parnell
1978
Hanging Around
as Hank
1978
The Odd Job
as Raymonde
1978
Red Shift
as Thomas Venables
1978
Hazell
as Griffiths
1978
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
as Michel
1978
The Professionals
as Sergeant Garbett
1977
Last Summer
as Oscar
1977
This Year Next Year
as Jack Shaw
1977
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Michel
1976
Play Things
as Frank
1976
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
as Captain Narcissus Bullock
1976
Three Men in a Boat
as 2nd Porter
1975
The Sweeney
as Jimmy Fleet
1975
Pig Bin
as Policeman
1974
The Nearly Man
as Ron Hibbert
1974
The Nearly Man
as Ron Hibbert
1974
Playhouse
as Frank
1974
Playhouse
as Charlie
1974
Playhouse
as Eddie
1974
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Gorenflot
1973
O Lucky Man!
as Man at Stag Party
1973
Crown Court
as Simon Chase
1972
Country Matters
as Jack
1972
New Scotland Yard
1972
Justice
as Peter Rodwell
1971
See No Evil
as Gypsy Tom
1971
Play for Today
as Peter
1970
The Buttercup Chain
as The Driver
1970
Cry of the Banshee
as Burke
1970
The Misfit
as Mike Halloran
1970
Hamlet
as Captain
1969
Where's Jack?
as Hogarth
1969
The Betrayal
as Tom
1969
ITV Playhouse
as Norma's friend
1967
ITV Playhouse
as Oscar
1967
Armchair Theatre
as Robert Delmonds
1956
Armchair Theatre
as Chopper - Best Man
1956