- Known for
- Acting
- Credits
- 132 films
- Born
- March 27, 1942 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Fulmer, England, UK
Acting
Michael York
Also known as Maykl York, مایکل یورک, Michael Hugh Johnson
Biography
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976).
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In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001).
In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
Known for
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
English · Science Fiction · Action
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
English · Comedy · Crime
Acting 131
- 2026The Crystal Planet · The Patriarch (voice)
- 2025Dreams · Private Agent
- 2014Sleeping Beauty · The Narrator
- 2013Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals · Self
- 2012Flatland²: Sphereland · Spherius (voice)
- 2011Glad Christmas Tidings Featuring David Archuleta · Self
- 2011The Mill and the Cross · Nicolaes Jonghelinck
- 2010
Production 1
- 2001Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 · Co-Producer
