Michael Elphick
Actor
Born September 19, 1946 in 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
David Copperfield
Barkis
The Fix
Peter Campling
Streetwise
Narrator
Richard III
2nd Murderer
Treasure Island
Billy Bones
Modern Times
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
Dr. Nathaniel Bonner
Stanley and the Women
Bert Hutchinson
Murder Most Horrid
Bill Todd
Let Him Have It
Prison Officer Jack
Buddy's Song
Des
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
Inspector Cleaver
The Krays
George - Prisoner
Little Dorrit
Mr. Merdle
Withnail & I
Jake
Valhalla
Udgaardsloki (voice)
Pirates
Sentry
Boon
Ken Boon
The Supergrass
Constable Collins
Three Up, Two Down
Sam Tyler
Which Side Are You On?
Narrator (voice)
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Ernst Röhm
Super Gran
Roly Roofless
Bird Fancier
Joe Desmond
Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry
Oxbridge Blues
Curly Bonaventura
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Len
Ordeal by Innocence
Inspector Huish
The Element of Crime
Fisher
Memed My Hawk
Jabbar
C.Q.
Norman
Gorky Park
Pasha
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Magowan
Curse of the Pink Panther
Valencia Police Chief
Krull
Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
Privates on Parade
Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
Smiley's People
Detective Chief Inspector
Chains
Eddie
Pocketful of Dreams
Charlie
Private Schulz
Gerhard Schulz
Masada
Vettius
The Elephant Man
Night Porter
Cribb
Sol Herriott
Shoestring
Pete Johnson
Quadrophenia
Father
Blue Remembered Hills
Peter
The Knowledge
Gordon Weller
Black Island
Jack Daker
The First Great Train Robbery
Burgess
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Wallace Parnell
Hanging Around
Hank
The Odd Job
Raymonde
Red Shift
Thomas Venables
Hazell
Griffiths
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Michel
The Professionals
Sergeant Garbett
Last Summer
Oscar
This Year Next Year
Jack Shaw
Laurence Olivier Presents
Michel
Play Things
Frank
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
Captain Narcissus Bullock
Three Men in a Boat
2nd Porter
The Sweeney
Jimmy Fleet
Pig Bin
Policeman
The Nearly Man
Ron Hibbert
The Nearly Man
Ron Hibbert
Playhouse
Frank
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Gorenflot
O Lucky Man!
Man at Stag Party
Crown Court
Simon Chase
Country Matters
Jack
New Scotland Yard
Al Farmer
Justice
Peter Rodwell
See No Evil
Gypsy Tom
Play for Today
Peter
The Buttercup Chain
The Driver
Cry of the Banshee
Burke
The Misfit
Mike Halloran
Hamlet
Captain
Where's Jack?
Hogarth
The Betrayal
Tom
ITV Playhouse
Norma's friend
Armchair Theatre
Robert Delmonds