Michael York
Actor
Biography
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; March 27, 1942) is an English actor. After performing on-stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s. His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone (1970), Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in Zeppelin (1971), Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), George Conway in Lost Horizon (1973), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (also 1973) and its two sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976).
In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002). He is a two-time Emmy Award nominee, for the ABC Afterschool Special: Are You My Mother? (1986) and the AMC series The Lot (2001).
In 2002, he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures.
Filmography
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
as Basil Exposition 1997
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
as Basil Exposition 1999
Austin Powers in Goldmember
as Basil Exposition 2002
Murder on the Orient Express
as Count Andrenyi 1974
Logan's Run
as Logan 1976
Cabaret
as Brian Roberts 1972
Romeo and Juliet
as Tybalt 1968
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as Ambassador 1998
Wrongfully Accused
as Hibbing Goodhue 1998
The Three Musketeers
as D'Artagnan 1973
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
as Pterano (voice) 2000
The Four Musketeers
as D'Artagnan 1974
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
as Narrator (voice) 2002
The Taming of the Shrew
as Lucentio 1967
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Andrew Braddock 1977
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
as David 'Arthur' McIntyre (arcive footage, uncredited) 1998