Michael Roy Kitchen was born on 31 October 1948 and is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which comprised eight series between 2002 and 2015.
14 Facts About Michael Kitchen
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Michael Kitchen played the role of Bill Tanner in two James Bond films opposite Pierce Brosnan, and that of John Farrow in BBC Four's comedy series Brian Pern.
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Michael Roy Kitchen was born in Leicester, to parents Arthur and Betty Kitchen.
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Michael Kitchen's brother, Jeffrey, was born three years later in 1951.
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Michael Kitchen grew up at 102 Wilberforce Rd, west of the current De Montfort campus.
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Michael Kitchen was a senior scout in the 57th Leicester Scout group.
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Michael Kitchen completed a year after school at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
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Michael Kitchen played the role of Martin in the original 1976 production of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, Peter in Stephen Poliakoff's Caught on a Train, Edmund in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of King Lear, the Antipholi in the same series' production of The Comedy of Errors, Private Bamforth in the 1979 BBC television play of The Long and the Short and the Tall.
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Also in 1979 Michael Kitchen appeared in an episode of the hard-hitting police drama The Professionals.
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Michael Kitchen played the role of Duffy, a renegade former member of an organised crime network.
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Michael Kitchen's other noted appearances include The Buccaneers as Sir Helmsley Thwaite, Dandelion Dead, A Royal Scandal, The Last Contract a Swedish film about the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Paul Abbott's Alibi in 2003, Andrew Davies' dramatisation of Falling in 2005, ITV's three-part drama series Mobile and Channel 4's phone hacking comedy telemovie Hacks.
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Michael Kitchen has guest-starred in roles in other popular British television shows such as Minder, Chancer, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Between the Lines, Pie in the Sky and Dalziel and Pascoe.
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Michael Kitchen played Richard Crane in Reckless and John Farrow in the mockumentary The Life of Rock with Brian Pern.
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Michael Kitchen played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet for the RSC at Stratford and was a member of the National Theatre Company and the Young Vic, where he played Iago in Othello.