Keith Michell (born 1 December 1928, died 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor most famous for playing Henry VIII on several occasions; in the epic 1970 BBC drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII, the 1972 movie Henry VIII and his Six Wives and the 1996 BBC drama The Prince and the Pauper. In 1980 he scored a number 5 UK chart hit with Captain Beaky, a recital of a Jeremy Lloyd poem.

Filmography

• 2010Love/Loss — Joe
• The Prince and the Pauper — King Henry VIII
• Captain James Cook — James Cook
• 1988The Deceivers — Colonel Wilson
• 1986My Brother Tom — Edward Quayle
• Murder, She Wrote — Dennis Stanton
• 1983Memorial Day — Marsh
• 1982Ruddigore — Robin Oakapple
• 1982The Gondoliers — Don Alhambra
• 1982The Pirates of Penzance — The Major General
• 1981Grendel Grendel Grendel — The Shaper (voice)
• 1980The Day Christ Died — Pontius Pilate
• 1979Julius Caesar — Marcus Antonius
• 1979The Tenth Month — Matthew Poole
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Marc Antony
• 1976The Story of David — Older David
• The Story of David — Older David
• 1974Moments — Peter Samuelson
• 1974The Story of Jacob and Joseph — Jacob
• 1972Henry VIII and His Six Wives — Henry VIII
• Late Night Theatre — Robert Browning
• 1970The Executioner — Adam Booth
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII — Henry VIII of England
• 1970Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town — George Leybourne
• 1969An Ideal Husband — Sir Robert Chiltern
• 1968House of Cards — Morillon
• 1968Prudence and the Pill — Dr. Alan Huart
• 1967Kain — Kain
• 1967Soldier in Love — John Churchill
• BBC Play of the Month — Caliban, Sir Robert Chiltern
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Geoffrey
• Theatre 625 — Kain Sutherland
• Festival — Frederic - Hugo
• The Spread of the Eagle — Mark Antony
• 1962All Night Long — Cass Michaels
• 1962Seven Seas to Calais — Malcolm Marsh
• 1962Wuthering Heights — Heathcliff
• 1961The Hellfire Club — Jason Caldwell
• The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries — Baron Leopold von Ragastein / Sir Edward Dominey
• 1958The Gypsy and the Gentleman — Paul Deverill
• 1957Dangerous Exile — Colonel St. Gerard
• 1957True as a Turtle — Harry Bell
• Armchair Theatre — Paul de Lussac
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — John
• Sunday Night Theatre — Crown Prince Rudolf

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2017Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches — Self
• The Julie Andrews Hour — Self
• Film '72 — Self