1. Michael Alan Gothard was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
16 Facts About Michael Gothard
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Michael Gothard went through various jobs, including building labourer and trainee reporter.
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Michael Gothard even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but didn't feel comfortable doing that job.
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Michael Gothard joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making.
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Michael Gothard attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job.
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Michael Gothard was involved in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St Martin's Lane.
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Michael Gothard was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968.
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Michael Gothard then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After.
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Michael Gothard's performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts.
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Michael Gothard had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful.
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Michael Gothard had a lot of class and a lot of style.
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Michael Gothard appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed.
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Michael Gothard played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.
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Michael Gothard had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s.
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Michael Gothard became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
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Michael Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992.