Michael Medwin

Michael Medwin
Born	18 July 1923 (1923-07-18) (age 88) London
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1940–1983

Michael Hugh Medwin OBE (born 18 July 1923) is an English actor and film producer.

Born in London, he was educated at Canford School, Dorset and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940.

He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television detective series Shoestring and for his role in The Army Game, a British television comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Alfie Bass, he took the theme tune from The Army Game into the UK Singles Chart in 1958, where it peaked at number 5.^[1]

As well as his role in Shoestring, he played Colin's boss Mr Langley (of the Langley Book Of Horror) in the Mel Smith comedy series Colin's Sandwich.

He made many film appearances, including Carry On Nurse (1959) and The Longest Day (1962), before turning to producing films. Among the films he produced for Memorial Enterprises, a company he established with actor Albert Finney, are Charlie Bubbles (1967), directed by Finney and Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He worked again with Anderson on O Lucky Man! (1973) continuing the story of the Mick Travis character from their earlier film..

Partial filmography

• Black Memory (1947)
• Woman Hater (1948)
• Operation Diamond (1948)
• Anna Karenina (1948)
• Another Shore (1948)
• Helter Skelter (1949)
• Trottie True (1949)
• Boys in Brown (1949)
• For Them That Trespass (1949)
• Children of Chance (1949)
• Four in a Jeep (1951)
• Hindle Wakes (1952)
• Top Secret (1952)
• Miss Robin Hood (1952)
• Street Corner (1953)
• Malta Story (1953)
• Genevieve (1953)
• The Green Scarf (1954)
• Bang! You're Dead (1954)
• The Teckman Mystery (1954)
• Above Us the Waves (1955)
• Doctor at Sea (1955)
• Charley Moon (1956)
• A Hill in Korea (1956)
• Checkpoint (1956)
• Doctor at Large (1957)
• The Steel Bayonet (1957)
• The Duke Wore Jeans (1958)
• I Only Arsked! (1958)
• The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
• Carry on Nurse (1959)
• The Heart of a Man (1959)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Crooks Anonymous (1962)
• It's All Happening (1963)
• Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963)
• Night Must Fall (1964)
• Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
• The Sandwich Man (1966)
• A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
• Scrooge (1970)
• O Lucky Man! (1973)
• Law and Disorder (1974)
• The Sea Wolves (1980)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• The Jigsaw Man (1983)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)

References

1. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 359. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 

External links

• Michael Medwin at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Medwin, Michael
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Short description	British actor
Date of birth	18 July 1929
Place of birth	London
Date of death
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