Posted on 11/24/2015 9:32:51 AM PST by EveningStar
Keith Michell, the Australian-born actor and director who has died aged 89 88, was celebrated for his many imposing stage and screen performances as Henry VIII.
Michell came to monopolise one of British history's favourite subjects for dramatisation. Such was the charm of this burly, sturdy, square-set, square-jawed, mellifluous upstart from the Antipodes that when he revived Shakespeare's King Henry VIII at the Chichester Festival in 1991 he could with justice claim to have made the part of the much-married monarch his own for a quarter of a century.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
RIP Mr. Michell. Enjoyed you as the tyrant king.
I remember him from Murder She Wrote. I really enjoyed him on that show.
Well, he was almost 9000 years old
Yep, that's right...he was on that show too. Thanks for reminding me.
That was a cool series (Henry VIII). RIP.
Ha! I sing that to my 3 mo. old grandson, Henry, all the time!
I would too. I think I sing it randomly. In fact, my brothers and I learned that each of us had inherited from our father the tendency to sing pretty much anything at random.
He played a great Henry VIII. RIP
I remember him best as Cervantes/Quixote in the London production of Man of La Mancha. I have the whole play burned to digital from my old LP. He was really good in it.
RIP
RIP.
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