Michael Gwynn
Actor
Biography
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Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a Major and was Adjutant to the 2nd. Nyasaland Battalion, Kings African Rifles.
He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord Melbury who attempts to con £200 and a set of British Empire coins from the unsuspecting Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. Gwynn appears as Lord Melbury in the first ever episode of the series, "A Touch of Class".
Gwynn also appeared on several adaptations of plays on the Caedmon Records label. Among them were Cyrano de Bergerac, in which he played Le Bret, and Julius Caesar, in which he played Casca. Both productions starred Ralph Richardson in the title role.
He died on 29 January 1976 in London from a heart attack.
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Filmography
Jason and the Argonauts
as Hermes 1963
Village of the Damned
as Alan Bernard 1960
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Cornelius 1964
Scars of Dracula
as The Priest 1970
Barabbas
as Lazarus 1961
The Revenge of Frankenstein
as Karl 1958
Dunkirk
as Commander (Sheerness) 1958
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
as Prosecutor 1960
The Deadly Bees
as Doctor Lang 1966
The Camp on Blood Island
as Tom Shields 1958
What a Carve Up!
as Malcolm Broughton 1961
Catch Us If You Can
as Hardingford 1965
The Virgin Soldiers
as Lt Col Bromley-Pickering 1969
The Runaway Bus
as 1st Transport Officer 1953
The Doctor's Dilemma
as Dr. Blenkinsop 1959
Question 7
as Friedrich Gottfried 1961