25 Facts About Michael York

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Michael York OBE was born on Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942 and is a British film, television and stage actor.

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Michael York's best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone, Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin, Brian Roberts in Cabaret, George Conway in Lost Horizon, D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express, and Logan 5 in Logan's Run.

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Michael York did some early acting at the community theatre Bromley Little Theatre and is its president.

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Michael York began his career in a 1956 production of The Yellow Jacket.

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Michael York then was cast as Tybalt in Zeffirelli's 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

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Michael York starred in The Guru, then played an amoral bisexual drifter in Something for Everyone.

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Michael York portrayed the bisexual Brian Roberts in Bob Fosse's film version of Cabaret.

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Michael York starred as D'Artagnan in the 1973 adaptation of The Three Musketeers and he made his Broadway debut in the original production of Tennessee Williams's Out Cry.

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Michael York played the title character in the film adaptation of Logan's Run, a fugitive who tries to escape a computer-controlled society.

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Michael York appeared in two episodes in the second season of the Road to Avonlea series as Ezekiel Crane, the lighthouse keeper of Avonlea and foster father of Gus Pike.

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Michael York appeared in the 1996 Babylon 5 episode "A Late Delivery from Avalon" as a delusional man who believed himself to be King Arthur returned.

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Michael York appeared as Professor Asher Fleming, a 60-year-old Yale professor and boyfriend of Yale student Paris Geller during the fourth season of Gilmore Girls.

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Michael York starred in both The Omega Code and its sequel, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, as Stone Alexander, the Antichrist from Christian eschatology.

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Michael York played President Alexander Bourne of Macaronesia on seaQuest 2032.

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Michael York played Basil Exposition in all three of the Austin Powers films.

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Michael York has made an appearance on The Simpsons as Mason Fairbanks, Homer Simpson's possible father, in "Homer's Paternity Coot".

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Michael York appeared as a fictionalised version of himself in several episodes of the third season of Curb Your Enthusiasm as an investor in Larry's new restaurant 'BoBo's.

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Michael York voiced Petrie's uncle Pterano in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire.

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Michael York again played King Arthur in a revival of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, which began its run at the La Mirada Theatre in Southern California, and toured nationally in 2006 and 2007.

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In 2008, Michael York took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history.

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In September 2013, Michael York played Albany in the Gala Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London.

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Michael York met photographer Patricia McCallum in 1967 when she was assigned to photograph him, and they married on 27 March 1968, Michael York's 26th birthday.

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Michael York was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1977.

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Michael York announced he was suffering from the rare disease called amyloidosis in 2013.

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Michael York underwent a stem cell transplant, which can alleviate symptoms, in 2012.