Michael Elphick

Known for: Acting

Born: 1946-09-19 – 2002-09-07 (aged 55)

From: Chichester, Sussex, England, UK

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.

Filmography (99)

MOVIE★ 5.3
Out of Bounds
2003
as Lionel Stubbs
TV★ 7.1
David Copperfield
1999
as Barkis
MOVIE★ 3.8
The Fix
1997
as Peter Campling
MOVIE
Streetwise
1996
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.8
Richard III
1995
as 2nd Murderer
MOVIE★ 5.5
Treasure Island
1995
as Billy Bones
TV★ 9.0
Modern Times
1995
TV★ 5.3
Harry
1993
as Harry Salter
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
1992
as Dr. Nathaniel Bonner
TV★ 6.5
Stanley and the Women
1991
as Bert Hutchinson
TV★ 6.9
Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Bill Todd
TV★ 4.1
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.7
Let Him Have It
1991
as Prison Officer Jack
MOVIE★ 5.7
Buddy's Song
1991
as Des
MOVIE★ 5.3
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990
as Inspector Cleaver
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Krays
1990
as George - Prisoner
MOVIE★ 6.4
Little Dorrit
1987
as Mr. Merdle
MOVIE★ 7.2
Withnail & I
1987
as Jake
MOVIE★ 6.8
Valhalla
1986
as Udgaardsloki (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.3
Pirates
1986
as Sentry
TV★ 5.8
Boon
1986
as Ken Boon
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Supergrass
1985
as Constable Collins
TV★ 6.3
Three Up, Two Down
1985
as Sam Tyler
MOVIE★ 6.6
Which Side Are You On?
1985
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.9
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Ernst Röhm
TV★ 6.4
Super Gran
1985
as Roly Roofless
MOVIE
Bird Fancier
1985
as Joe Desmond
MOVIE★ 6.8
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
as Dogberry
TV★ 7.0
Oxbridge Blues
1984
as Curly Bonaventura
MOVIE★ 7.4
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
1984
as Len
MOVIE★ 5.1
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Inspector Huish
TV
Pull The Other One
1984
as Sidney Mundy
MOVIE★ 8.0
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
1984
as Self - Actor/Fisher
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Element of Crime
1984
as Fisher
MOVIE★ 6.0
Memed My Hawk
1984
as Jabbar
MOVIE
C.Q.
1984
as Norman
MOVIE★ 6.3
Gorky Park
1983
as Pasha
TV★ 7.9
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Magowan
MOVIE★ 4.6
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as Valencia Police Chief
MOVIE★ 6.0
Krull
1983
as Rhun (voice) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 4.9
Privates on Parade
1983
as Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
TV
Bloomfield
1983
as Billy Gibbs
TV★ 7.7
Smiley's People
1982
as Detective Chief Inspector
MOVIE
Chains
1982
as Eddie
MOVIE
Pocketful of Dreams
1982
as Charlie
TV★ 5.3
Private Schulz
1981
as Gerhard Schulz
TV★ 7.0
Masada
1981
as Vettius
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Elephant Man
1980
as Night Porter
TV★ 8.0
Cribb
1980
as Sol Herriott
TV★ 7.7
Shoestring
1979
as Pete Johnson
MOVIE★ 7.0
Quadrophenia
1979
as Father
MOVIE★ 7.3
Blue Remembered Hills
1979
as Peter
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Knowledge
1979
as Gordon Weller
MOVIE★ 8.0
Black Island
1979
as Jack Daker
MOVIE★ 6.7
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
as Burgess
MOVIE
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
as Wallace Parnell
MOVIE
Hanging Around
1978
as Hank
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Odd Job
1978
as Raymonde
MOVIE
Cold Harbour
1978
as Barrister at Party
TV
Send in the Girls
1978
as Jimmy
MOVIE★ 7.7
Red Shift
1978
as Thomas Venables
TV★ 5.2
Hazell
1978
as Griffiths
MOVIE★ 7.0
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
as Michel
TV★ 7.6
The Professionals
1977
as Sergeant Garbett
TV
The Sound of Laughter
1977
as Ernie Randle
MOVIE★ 10.0
Last Summer
1977
as Oscar
MOVIE
A Good Human Story
1977
TV★ 5.0
The Sunday Drama
1977
as Ralph Winters
TV★ 7.0
This Year Next Year
1977
as Jack Shaw
TV★ 7.0
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
as Michel
MOVIE
Play Things
1976
as Frank
TV★ 7.5
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
as Captain Narcissus Bullock
MOVIE★ 6.1
Three Men in a Boat
1975
as 2nd Porter
TV★ 8.0
The Sweeney
1975
as Jimmy Fleet
MOVIE
Pig Bin
1974
as Policeman
MOVIE
Norma
1974
as Norma's Friend
MOVIE
The Nearly Man
1974
as Ron Hibbert
TV★ 10.0
The Nearly Man
1974
as Ron Hibbert
TV★ 7.0
Playhouse
1974
as Frank
MOVIE
That Sinking Feeling
1973
as Chopper
TV
Second City Firsts
1973
as Policeman
TV★ 6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Gorenflot
MOVIE★ 6.8
O Lucky Man!
1973
as Man at Stag Party
MOVIE
The Little Farm
1973
as Jack
TV★ 5.7
Crown Court
1972
as Simon Chase
TV★ 4.6
Country Matters
1972
as Jack
TV★ 6.3
New Scotland Yard
1972
as Al Farmer
MOVIE
Man Charged
1971
as Robert Delmonds
TV★ 7.3
Justice
1971
as Peter Rodwell
MOVIE★ 6.5
See No Evil
1971
as Gypsy Tom
TV★ 6.6
Play for Today
1970
as Peter
MOVIE★ 4.7
The Buttercup Chain
1970
as The Driver
MOVIE★ 5.4
Cry of the Banshee
1970
as Burke
TV★ 9.0
The Misfit
1970
as Mike Halloran
MOVIE★ 5.8
Hamlet
1969
as Captain
MOVIE★ 7.5
Where's Jack?
1969
as Hogarth
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Betrayal
1969
as Tom
TV★ 7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Norma's friend
TV★ 6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Robert Delmonds