# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-york
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:12:16.400Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-york"
name: "Michael York"
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description: "Michael York swashbuckled through the 1970s as D'Artagnan, danced through Weimar Berlin in Cabaret, and ran from a dystopian death sentence in Logan's Run — then decades later turned up as the exposition-spouting straight man in Austin Powers."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Michael Hugh Johnson on 27 March 1942, York came up through the Royal National Theatre before Franco Zeffirelli cast him as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet in 1968. The '70s made him: Brian Roberts in Cabaret (1972), D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (1973) and its sequels, Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Logan 5 in Logan's Run (1976), John the Baptist in Jesus of Nazareth (1977). He toggled between literary swashbucklers and big ensemble pieces, reliable in doublet or spacesuit. By the late '90s he'd found a second wind as Basil Exposition across three Austin Powers films (1997–2002), the spy who explains the plot. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the OBE at the 1996 Birthday Honours.