Michael Kitchen

Michael Kitchen

Nacimiento : 1948-10-31, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

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Michael Kitchen (born 31 October 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as DCS Foyle in the British TV series Foyle's War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Kitchen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Michael Kitchen

Películas

Hacks
Stanhope Feast
A satirical swipe at the phone-hacking scandal surrounding the British newspaper industry.
Mi semana con Marilyn
Hugh Perceval
Londres, 1956. El genial actor y director de cine Laurence Olivier está a punto de comenzar el rodaje de su próxima película, estrenada en 1957 como «El príncipe y la corista», protagonizada por Marilyn Monroe. El joven Colin Clark, que sueña con hacer carrera en el mundo del cine, consigue un trabajo en el plató como tercer ayudante de dirección.
Falling
Henry Kent
Henry Kent meets writer Daisy Langrish and offers to take care of her overgrown garden. The relationship develops but Mr. Kent is fooling no one but Daisy!
Foyle's War - War Games
Christopher Foyle
When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.
Alibi
Greg Brentwood
A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife's lover by Marcey, a public servant moonlighting as a waitress at a party thrown by Greg for he and his wife's wedding anniversary. Marcey sets about organizing the slightly neurotic Greg in his attempts to cover up the accident.
Adolf & Eva
Narrator (voice)
Home footage plus reenactments of the life & times of Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun. Their early days of happiness followed by long separations due the war causing much loneliness for Eva. Up until their suicides in the Bunker as the war was drawing to its inevitable conclusion.
New Year's Day
Robin
Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends.
Lorna Doone
Judge Jeffrey
En 1660, en Inglaterra, los protestantes se rebelan contra los católicos. Amor, guerra y luchas familiares se entremezclan en esta historia, mientras una aristocrática familia aterroriza a los habitantes de Devon.
Prueba de vida
Ian Havery
Mientras construye una presa en Tecala, en el corazón de los Andes, el ingeniero norteamericano Peter Bowman es capturado por fuerzas antigubernamentales durante una incursión en la capital. Cuando los rebeldes descubren su identidad exigen tres millones de dólares de rescate. El problema es que la empresa de Peter, con sede en Houston, está al borde de la bancarrota y ha cancelado la póliza de seguros contra secuestros, así que no dispone del dinero del rescate. Viéndose abandonada por la compañía, la esposa de Peter contrata los servicios de Terry Thorne, un negociador profesional que en los últimos años ha resuelto numerosos casos de secuestro.
The Secret World of Michael Fry
Herbie
Council Planner Michael Fry uncovers a sinister plot in his Welsh seaside home town, and finds himself caught in a growing tide of corruption and sleazy internet sex.
Los niños del tren
Father
La película comienza en una feliz y cómoda casa de clase alta de Londres, a principios del siglo XX. Roberta, Phyllis y Peter son tres niños, hijos de una madre y un padre maravillosos. Un día el padre, que trabaja en la oficina de Relaciones Exteriores, es encarcelado como consecuencia de haber sido falsamente acusado de vender secretos de estado a los rusos. Los niños y su madre caen en desgracia y, finalmente, tienen que mudarse a una pobre casa en el campo, cercana al ferrocarril. Fascinados por el ferrocarril, saludan a los pasajeros todos los días, y su vigilancia y valentía evitan un accidente. Siempre mantienen el ánimo en alto y encuentran formas de ayudar a los demás. Por su bondad se hacen amigos de una persona importante que puede ayudarlos a resolver el caso de su padre.
El mundo nunca es suficiente
Bill Tanner
Tras la muerte del magnate británico del petróleo Sir Robert King en un atentado en el cuartel general del MI6, su hija Elektra hereda su billonaria fortuna en yacimientos petrolíferos en el mar Caspio. El agente 007, sintiéndose culpable de la muerte de su padre, se convierte en su guardaespaldas. Su fortuna atraerá la atención de la prensa internacional y también de su asesino, Renard, un hombre con una bala alojada en el cerebro que le impide sentir dolor físico y cuya única obsesión es la venganza.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Lloyd George
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more, but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton - even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the target of racism when they visit New York City.
Reckless: The Sequel
Richard Crane
One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna and Owen survive this emotional trauma to become man and wife?
The Last Contract
John Gales alias Ray Lambert
Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
A Royal Scandal
Lord Malmesbury
The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
Mrs. Dalloway
Peter Walsh
Adaptación de la novela homónima de la escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf. La acción transcurre en Londres. A lo largo de todo un día del año 1923, Clarissa Dalloway recuerda su pasado mientras prepara una gran fiesta. Poco antes de que empiecen a llegar los invitados, vuelve a aparecer en su vida un pretendiente al que rechazó treinta años antes.
Wilderness
In the light of the moon, seduction and pleasure are never what they seem. And neither is Alice White (Amanda Ooms), a beautiful and obsessed woman with a painfully sinister secret: once a month when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf. When a passionate triangle ensues between a psychiatrist who can hardly believe her erotically charged tales and a man who may be her one shot at love, Alice flees to the wilderness where she is free to satiate her most personal and sometimes shocking desires. Originally a three part British TV Mini-series, later released as a single episode on DVD.
GoldenEye
Bill Tanner
En sus vacaciones, el agente Bond se encuentra con la bella y letal Xenia Onatopp, que intenta hacerse con los planos de un nuevo helicóptero invulnerable a las interferencias. Mientras tanto la programadora del ejército ruso Natalya Siminova es la única superviviente de su equipo a un macabro plan del general Ourumov para hacerse con Goldeneye, un arma espacial ultrasecreta que emite pulsos nucleares que inutilizan cualquier equipo electrónico. Bond formará equipo con Natalya para descubrir a los malhechores tras el robo.
Secuestrado
William Reid
Cuando el padre del joven caballero escocés David Balfour muere, él deja la escuela para recoger la herencia de su tío Ebenezer, quien a su vez vende al niño como futuro esclavo a un barco pirata.
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
Jeremy Swain
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.
The Hanging Gale
Captain William Townsend
In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
Patria
SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger
Thriller basado en la hipótesis de que Hitler hubiera ganado la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Corre el año 1964 y Alemania domina Europa. Cuando varios altos cargos del III Reich aparecen muertos, un detective comienza a investigar...
El puño de Dios
Doctor Christopher Cowley
Dr. Gerald Bull era un genio en el diseño y construcción superguns. (Muy grandes cañones de largo alcance capaces de disparar más de 100 millas.) Cuando un plan de la CIA para exportar material restringido el uso de él fue expuesto, la CIA negó todo conocimiento y se fue a la cárcel. Más tarde fue liberado para ayudar a Saddam Hussein a construir una nueva superarma capaz de disparar más de 500 millas. Israel, al enterarse de la superarma, teme que sería utilizado contra ellos mismos.
El proceso
Block
Adaptación a la gran pantalla de "El proceso", la prestigiosa novela de Frank Kafka. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hamlet
Narrator (voice)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1994. HAMLET is animated using watercolours on glass.
The Guilty
Steven Vey
Michael Kitchen stars in this two-part television thriller as Steven Vey, a successful London barrister whose seemingly perfect life takes a devastating turn when a fleeting encounter with his secretary spawns a rape charge. Meanwhile, in a parallel tale, ex-convict Eddy Doyle discovers the man who raised him is not his real father. Doyle searches for his biological dad -- but winds up knee-deep in trouble. English
Contra toda ley
Fredericks
Reino Unido, un agente de operaciones encubiertas es envíado a Argentina para encontrar a un analista secuestrado y detener a los terroristas que se lo secuestraron .
Un abril encantado
George Briggs
Inglaterra sigue tan lluviosa como siempre, y Lottie Wilkings está muy deprimida, ya que su vida se reduce a oír cada noche las quejas de su marido. Un día, lee un anuncio en el que se alquila por un mes un castillo en Italia, y en él encuentra la ocasión de vivir una aventura. Es abril en Italia, y cualquier cosa puede suceder... incluso el amor.
La Casa Rusia
Clive
Barley Scott Blair, un editor de literatura rusa afincado en Lisboa que inesperadamente comienza a trabajar para la inteligencia británica, recibe el encargo de investigar los propósitos de Dante, un científico disidente atrapado en la decadente Unión Soviética que se desmorona debido a las nuevas políticas aperturistas.
Fools of Fortune
Mr Quinton
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Crossing to Freedom
Maj. Diessen
A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Smiley Face
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.
Home Run
Bill English
Back in London from abroad, Bill English has it all - smart flat with a river view, flash car and, of course, the beautiful Anna. But he was born and brought up in these parts and everything's changed. Anna asks: 'Where are the ghosts Bill?'
The Dive
Bricks
Sundquist and Eidsvold play the two deep sea divers, who agree to do a quick unscheduled dive before taking their Christmas vacation, to help an oil company who's got a oil-valve caught in a trawl. The dive is to take only 5 minutes, and the divers will get a nice bonus. But things go wrong. The diving bell gets tangled in the trawl, and while trying to hoist up the bell, they tear asunder the oxygen tanks. Suddenly the bell is stuck, and the crew is unable to get it up. Caught in a diving bell at the bottom of the sea, rapidly running out of air, both the divers and the crew on the surface are racing against time to find a solution; how to get the two men up ALIVE!
Benefactors
Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.
The Browning Version
Frank Hunter
Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985.
Memorias de África
Berkeley Cole
A principios del siglo XX Karen Blixen (Streep), una mujer europea de gran coraje, llega a Kenia para dirigir una plantación de café junto a su marido (Brandauer), un mujeriego incorregible con el que no se ha casado por amor. Para su sorpresa, Karen se da cuenta de que poco a poco se está enamorando de la tierra, de sus gentes... y de Denys Finch-Hatton (Redford), un enigmático cazador aventurero.
The Comedy of Errors
Antipholus of Ephesus / Antipholus of Syracuse
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
Brimstone and Treacle
Martin Taylor
Produced in 1976 for BBC's Play For Today. Banned for 11 years, and finally broadcast on August 25th, 1987. It was remade, with Denholm Elliot returning to the cast, in 1982.
King Lear
Edmund
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
A Room for the Winter
Stephen
James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.
El bunker
Rochus Misch
Narra los últimos días del dictador Adolf Hitler y de su entorno en mayo de 1945 en su búnker en Berlín, así como el clima de demencia que reinaba en el Bunker en esas últimas horas de muchos de sus habitantes. Hitler, hombre senil que pasa de la tranquilidad a una violencia extrema, no admite su derrota.
Caught on a Train
Peter
British playwright Stephen Poliakoff's comical teleplay investigates Europe's changing social landscape via three strangers who meet on a train. Peter (Michael Kitchen), an English businessman on an overnight trip through Europe, shares a compartment with a beautiful American woman, Lorraine (Wendy Raebeck). But Peter's hope for romance is soon dampened by Lorraine's xenophobia and the arrival of a haughty Viennese aristocrat (Peggy Ashcroft).
La rockera
Larner
Kate (Hazel O'Connor) es una excéntrica cantante de música New Wave, su aspecto es bastante estrafalario y escribe letras de gran contenido social. En su cruzada antisistema, lo que más detesta es la industria discográfica. Sin embargo, cuando Danny (Phil Daniels) le ofrece ser su mánager, acaba aceptando. En su camino hacia el estrellato va perdiendo poco a poco sus principios. En una Inglaterra convulsionada por las huelgas, el paro y los enfrentamientos callejeros, Breaking Glass retrata la corrupta industria musical que convierte en mercancía de consumo y en moda pasajera incluso la más subversiva de las culturas juveniles. Mención especial a la banda sonora interpretada por Hazel O'Connor.
The Misanthrope
Acaste
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris in the 1920s.
School Play
Rose S J
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Private Bamforth
Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.
No Man's Land
Foster
'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home of a rich writer and they start reminiscing about the 'past,' in a menacing, Pinteresque fashion.
Beasts: What Big Eyes
Bob Curry
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Sleepwalker
A young American woman visiting her author father in London discovers that her childhood habit of sleepwalking has recurred. She has a vivid dream of witnessing a murder in a strange house - or is it a dream?
Once the Killing Starts
George Newton
Married college professor Michael Lane falls in love with one of his students and hatches an elaborate scheme to dispose of his wife, Elizabeth. His murder plot goes as planned. However, he soon receives an anonymous note: "I know what you did, murderer!" Prof. Lane frantically tries to discover who knows his secret...
The Reporters
Alan
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
Drácula 73
Greg
Londres, años 70. Johnny Alucard, un discípulo de Drácula, organiza una ceremonia de magia negra en un desolado cementerio para resucitar al siniestro Conde. Entre las víctimas que Alucard atrae al cementerio está Jessica Van Helsing, nieta del más famoso cazador de vampiros de todos los tiempos. Su abuelo intentará salvarla utilizando todos los recursos necesarios para atrapar y destruir a Drácula.
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Bungabine
A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.
Hell's Angel
Dick Foster
Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.