# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-elphick
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:37:53.572Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-elphick"
name: "Michael Elphick"
slug: "michael-elphick"
description: "Michael John Elphick was an English film and television actor. He played the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1983 film Gorky Park. With his gruff Sussex accent and lip-curling sneer, he often played menacing hard men."
tagline: "English actor (1946-2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Michael_Elphick.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-09-19"
deathDate: "2002-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.265125333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0255573/"
    handle:    "nm0255573"
sources:
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    title: "Michael Elphick"
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    title: "مايكل الفيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مایکل الفیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elphick"
    title: "Michael Elphick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elphick"
    title: "Michael Elphick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "مایکل الفیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "מייקל אלפיק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elphick"
    title: "Michael Elphick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Elphick"
    title: "Michael Elphick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q425656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1821"
    title: "Michael Elphick"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump