Michael Elphick

Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.

Actor

1969

[ ] Hamlet (Captain)
[ ] The Betrayal (Tom)
[ ] Where's Jack? (Hogarth)

1970

[ ] The Buttercup Chain (The Driver)
[ ] Cry of the Banshee (Burke)

1971

[ ] See No Evil (Gypsy Tom)
[ ] Man Charged (Robert Delmonds)

1973

[ ] That Sinking Feeling (Chopper)
[ W ] O Lucky Man! (Man at Stag Party)

1974

[ ] Pig Bin (Policeman)
[ ] The Nearly Man (Ron Hibbert)
[ ] Norma (Norma's Friend)

1975

[ ] Three Men in a Boat (2nd Porter)

1976

[ ] Play Things (Frank)

1977

[ ] A Good Human Story (????)
[ ] Last Summer (Oscar)

1978

[ ] Red Shift (Thomas Venables)
[ ] Cold Harbour (Barrister at Party)
[ ] The First Great Train Robbery (Burgess)
[ ] Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Michel)
[ ] The Odd Job (Raymonde)
[ ] The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (Wallace Parnell)
[ ] Hanging Around (Hank)

1979

[ ] Quadrophenia (Father)
[ ] The Knowledge (Gordon Weller)
[ ] Blue Remembered Hills (Peter)
[ ] Black Island (Jack Daker)

1980

[ 6/10 ] The Elephant Man (Night Porter)

1982

[ ] Pocketful of Dreams (Charlie)
[ ] Chains (Eddie)

1983

[ ] Gorky Park (Pasha)
[ ] Krull (Rhun (voice) (uncredited))
[ ] Privates on Parade (Sergeant Major Reg Drummond)
[ ] Curse of the Pink Panther (Valencia Police Chief)

1984

[ ] The Element of Crime (Fisher)
[ ] C.Q. (Norman)
[ ] Memed My Hawk (Jabbar)
[ ] Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime (Self - Actor/Fisher)
[ ] Arthur's Hallowed Ground (Len)
[ ] Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry)
[ ] Ordeal by Innocence (Inspector Huish)

1985

[ ] Bird Fancier (Joe Desmond)
[ ] Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (Ernst Röhm)
[ ] Which Side Are You On? (Narrator (voice))
[ ] The Supergrass (Constable Collins)

1986

[ ] Pirates (Sentry)
[ ] Valhalla (Udgaardsloki (voice))

1987

[ ] Little Dorrit (Mr. Merdle)
[ ] Withnail & I (Jake)

1990

[ ] I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (Inspector Cleaver)
[ ] The Krays (George - Prisoner)

1991

[ ] Buddy's Song (Des)
[ ] Let Him Have It (Prison Officer Jack)

1992

[ ] The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy (Dr. Nathaniel Bonner)

1995

[ 7/10 ] Richard III (2nd Murderer)
[ ] Treasure Island (Billy Bones)

1996

[ ] Streetwise (Narrator)

1997

[ ] The Fix (Peter Campling)

2003

[ ] Out of Bounds (Lionel Stubbs)