Michael York

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…