Michael York

British actor

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Born 1942 · age 84United Kingdom

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Rank in United Kingdom
#250
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Age
84
Born 1942
Known for
Transformers: Revenge …
2009

Summary

Updated 2026-06-08

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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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 fi…

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