Michael Elphick
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
The Elephant Man
1980
Quadrophenia
1979
Pig Bin
1974
Gorky Park
1983
The Element of Crime
1984
Little Dorrit
1987
Withnail & I
1987
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990
Krull
1983
Hamlet
1969
Bird Fancier
1985
Privates on Parade
1983
Out of Bounds
2003
The Buttercup Chain
1970
The Nearly Man
1974
The Betrayal
1969
The Fix
1997
C.Q.
1984
Memed My Hawk
1984
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
1984
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
See No Evil
1971
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
1984
Red Shift
1978
The Knowledge
1979
The Krays
1990
Cold Harbour
1978
Norma
1974
That Sinking Feeling
1973
Man Charged
1971
Blue Remembered Hills
1979
Black Island
1979
Cry of the Banshee
1970
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
Where's Jack?
1969
Three Men in a Boat
1975
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
Buddy's Song
1991
Pirates
1986
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
Streetwise
1996
Let Him Have It
1991
Which Side Are You On?
1985
The Odd Job
1978
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
1992
Richard III
1995
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
The Supergrass
1985
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
A Good Human Story
1977
O Lucky Man!
1973
Valhalla
1986
Treasure Island
1995
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
Last Summer
1977
Hanging Around
1978
Play Things
1976
Pocketful of Dreams
1982
Chains
1982
The Little Farm
1973
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Three Up, Two Down
1985
Boon
1986
The Sweeney
1975
Private Schulz
1981
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Harry
1993
Pebble Mill
1991
Pull The Other One
1984
New Scotland Yard
1972
Oxbridge Blues
1984
Crown Court
1972
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Super Gran
1985
Justice
1971
David Copperfield
1999
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
Play for Today
1970
The Professionals
1977
This Year Next Year
1977
Playhouse
1974
Playhouse
1974
Playhouse
1974
The Misfit
1970
The Nearly Man
1974
Masada
1981
Hazell
1978
Shoestring
1979
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
Smiley's People
1982
Modern Times
1995
Country Matters
1972
Cribb
1980
Armchair Theatre
1956
Armchair Theatre
1956