1. Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe was an English actor known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers.
11 Facts About Michael Goodliffe
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Michael Goodliffe began his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before joining the company of the Stratford Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon.
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Michael Goodliffe joined the British Army at the beginning of the Second World War, and received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940.
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Michael Goodliffe was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk.
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Michael Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper.
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Michael Goodliffe was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany.
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Michael Goodliffe produced the first staging of Noel Coward's Post-Mortem at Eichstatt.
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Michael Goodliffe appeared in The Wooden Horse and in other POW films.
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Michael Goodliffe's best-known film was A Night to Remember, in which he played Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic.
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Michael Goodliffe appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance.
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Michael Goodliffe died by suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape while a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, which has since been converted to residential use and is called 'Wimbledon Hill Park'.