Michael Elphick
Biography
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.
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Acting History
2003
Out of Bounds as Lionel Stubbs
1999David Copperfield as Barkis
1997The Fix as Peter Campling
1996Streetwise as Narrator
1995Richard III as 2nd Murderer
1995Treasure Island as Billy Bones
1993Harry as Harry Salter
1992The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy as Dr. Nathaniel Bonner
1991Murder Most Horrid as Bill Todd
1991Pebble Mill as Self
1991Let Him Have It as Prison Officer Jack
1991Buddy's Song as Des
1990I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle as Inspector Cleaver
1990The Krays as George - Prisoner
1987Little Dorrit as Mr. Merdle
1987Withnail & I as Jake
1986Valhalla as Udgaardsloki (voice)
1986Pirates as Sentry
1986Boon as Ken Boon
1985The Supergrass as Constable Collins
1985Three Up, Two Down as Sam Tyler
1985Which Side Are You On? as Narrator (voice)
1985Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Ernst Röhm
1985Super Gran as Roly Roofless
1985Bird Fancier as Joe Desmond
1984Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry
1984Oxbridge Blues as Curly Bonaventura
1984Arthur's Hallowed Ground as Len
1984Ordeal by Innocence as Inspector Huish
1984Pull The Other One as Sidney Mundy
1984Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime as Self - Actor/Fisher
1984The Element of Crime as Fisher
1984Memed My Hawk as Jabbar
1984C.Q. as Norman
1983Gorky Park as Pasha
1983Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Magowan
1983Curse of the Pink Panther as Valencia Police Chief
1983Krull as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
1983Privates on Parade as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
1982Smiley's People
1982Chains as Eddie
1982Pocketful of Dreams as Charlie
1981Private Schulz as Private Gerhard Schulz
1981Masada as Vettius
1980The Elephant Man as Night Porter
1979Shoestring
1979Quadrophenia as Father
1979Blue Remembered Hills as Peter
1979The Knowledge as Gordon Weller
1979Black Island as Jack Daker
1978The First Great Train Robbery as Burgess
1978The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Wallace Parnell
1978Hanging Around as Hank
1978The Odd Job as Raymonde
1978Cold Harbour as Barrister at Party
1978Red Shift as Thomas Venables
1978Hazell as Griffiths
1978Saturday, Sunday, Monday as Michel
1977The Professionals as Sergeant Garbett
1977Last Summer as Oscar
1977A Good Human Story
1977This Year Next Year as Jack Shaw
1976Laurence Olivier Presents as Michel
1976Play Things as Frank
1976The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1975Three Men in a Boat as 2nd Porter
1975The Sweeney as Jimmy Fleet
1974Pig Bin as Policeman
1974Norma as Norma's Friend
1974The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
1974The Nearly Man as Ron Hibbert
1974Playhouse as Frank
1974Playhouse as Charlie
1974Playhouse as Eddie
1973That Sinking Feeling as Chopper
1973Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Gorenflot
1973O Lucky Man! as Man at Stag Party
1972Crown Court as Simon Chase
1972New Scotland Yard
1971Man Charged as Robert Delmonds
1971Justice as Peter Rodwell
1971See No Evil as Gypsy Tom
1970Play for Today as Peter
1970The Buttercup Chain as The Driver
1970Cry of the Banshee as Burke
1970The Misfit as Mike Halloran
1969Hamlet as Captain
1969Where's Jack? as Hogarth
1969The Betrayal as Tom