Michael Goodliffe (1914 - 1976)

Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts. Michael Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire, the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund’s School, Canterbury, and […]

Michael Gothard (1939 - 1992)

Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a small child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a […]

Michael Gough (1916 - 2011)

Actor. He is best known for his role of Alfred Pennyworth in the “Batman” film series. Born to British parents, he was educated at Wye Agricultural College before pursuing acting, as he studied at the Old Vic School. He marked his stage debut in 1936 and initiated his film career with the 1948 Vivian Leigh […]

Michael Graves (1934 - 2015)

Designer and Architect. Graves was a pioneering figure in postmodernism in the 1980s and ’90s. In 1958, he earned a degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati, then enrolled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. After finishing at Harvard and spending two years at the American Academy in Rome, he joined the Princeton University […]

Michael Hafner (1959 - 2005)

Actor. While he worked at the theatre in Coburg he had the idea for a Samba-Festival in the city. Although most people were skeptical of the idea, he was soon supported by the mayor and the Samba-Festivals Coburg was celebrated for the first time in 1992. The annual event has nowadays become the largest of […]

Michael Heisley, Sr (1937 - 2014)

American Businessman, Sports Team Owner. He was the majority proprietor of the Memphis Grizzlies from 2000 to 2012. He relocated the franchise from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Memphis in 2001. he attained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University and following graduation, he worked as a computer salesman. He amassed his wealth of […]

Michael Hinz (1939 - 2008)

Michael Hinz (28 December 1939 – 6 November 2008) was a German actor. Hinz came from an acting family, his parents were Werner Hinz and Ehmi Bessel, both actors, as well as his brother Knut and half-sister Dinah. After growing up in Berlin and Hamburg, Hinz had his first theatrical role in 1958 in Terence Rattigan’s The […]

Michael Hordern (1911 - 1995)

Hordern was born in the Poplars, an 18th-century townhouse in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the son of Margaret Emily (Murray) and Capt. Edward Joseph Calverly Hordern. He was educated at Windlesham House School and Brighton College, as was his elder brother Peter, who played rugby for Gloucester in the 1930s and was capped four times by England. […]

Michael Hutchence (1960 - 1977)

Michael Hutchence Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician and actor. He was a founding member, lead singer and lyricist of rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. Hutchence was a member of short-lived pop rock group Max Q and recorded solo material which […]

Michael Ibru (1930 - 2016)

Michael Ibru was born to the family of Peter Ibru, a missionary worker, who also worked at the Igbobi Orthapaedic Hospital, Lagos. After secondary school, he joined the United African Company, as a management trainee. In 1956, a few years after joining U.A.C, he dropped out of the company and started a partnership, which he […]

Michael Jackson (1958 - 2009)

Michael Jackson He was called the “King of Pop,” and is best remembered for his revolutionary videos such as “Thriller” (1982), and “Dangerous” (1991), as well as two Guinness World Records: Most successful entertainer of all time (with 13 Grammy Awards, 13 Number One single hits in a solo career, and sales of over 750 […]

Michael Jeter (1952 - 2003)

Michael Jeter Jeter’s body was found in his Hollywood Hills home Sunday, publicist Dick Guttman said. Friends said they had communicated with him as recently as Saturday, Guttman added. An autopsy was planned to determine the cause of death. Guttman said Jeter, who was HIV-positive but had been in good health, apparently died of natural […]

Michael John Smith (1945 - 1986)

Astronaut. Mike Smith was the pilot of the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger. From the time he graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1967, he had an accomplished Navy career which lasted almost 20 years. He earned a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1968 and completed […]

Michael Johns (1978 - 2014)

John Lee was born in Perth, Western Australia on 20 October 1978. As a teenager, he appeared as The Coachman in Pinocchio at the Regal Theatre and was a choir singer in Anything Goes at His Majesty’s Theatre. He attended Newman College in Perth. In 1997, John Lee moved to the United States on a […]

Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)

Michael Landon Television actor. Born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on October 31, 1936, in Queens, New York. His father, Eli Maurice Orowitz, was an actor and movie theater manager. Mother Peggy O’Neill was an actress. The family moved to the suburb of Collingswood, New Jersey, where the young Eugene grew up. Orowitz spent most of his […]

Michael Late Benedum (1869 - 1959)

Oil Magnate, Philanthropist. After an early career selling milling machinery, he became involved in the oil industry with the South Penn Oil Company, an affiliate of Standard Oil. He reached the position of Assistant General Land Agent for South Penn in 1892, but left and founded the Benedum-Trees Oil Company in partnership with Joseph Trees. […]

Michael Maggio (1889 - 1959)

Organized Crime Figure. Old-time Mafia Don from Philadelphia, who was prominent from the 1920s until his death in 1959. He sponsored future Philadelphia Organized Crime Boss Angelo Bruno for membership into the Philadelphia Family during the 1930s. He died of natural causes at age 69.

Michael Maltese (1908 - 1981)

In 1941, Michael Maltese was hired by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which three years later became Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (Maltese had actually appeared on camera in the 1940 Porky Pig cartoon You Ought to Be in Pictures as a live-action guard at the Warner Bros. entrance gate, who winds up chasing the animated Porky around […]

Michael Marks (1970 - 1907)

Michael Marks was born into a Polish-Jewish and Belarusian-Jewish family in Słonim, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire, now a town in Belarus. He emigrated to England around 1882 and moved to Leeds, where a company called Barran was known to employ Jewish refugees. He married Hannah Cohen at the Great Synagogue on […]

Michael McLendon (1980 - 2009)

Michael Kenneth McLendon (September 19, 1980 – March 10, 2009) was born in southern Alabama to Lisa McLendon (née White) and her husband. After his parents divorced, he was largely raised by his aunt and maternal uncle, Phyllis and James White, of Samson, Alabama. He attended local schools. An “A” student in high school, he […]

Michael Oakeshott (1901 - 1990)

Michael Oakeshott was the son of Francs Maude (Hellicar) and Joseph Francis Oakeshott, a civil servant and a major member of the Fabian Society. George Bernard Shaw was a friend. Michael Oakeshott attended St. George’s School, Harpenden from 1912 to 1920. He enjoyed his schooldays, and the Headmaster Cecil Grant later became a friend. During […]

Michael Pate (1920 - 2008)

Initially interested in becoming a medical missionary, but unable to afford the university fees due to the Depression, he worked in Sydney before 1938, when he became a writer and broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, collaborating with George Ivan Smith on Youth Speaks. For the remainder of the 1930s, he worked primarily in radio […]

Michael Patrick “Little Pat” Bilon (1947 - 1983)

Actor. He is best remembered for his work on the 1982 film, “E.T.: The Extra Terrestial.” Along with another dwarf actor, Tamara De Treaux, he played the role of ‘E.T.’ as well as working on other projects on the film. He also appeared in the 1981 film, “Under The Rainbow.” He who stood only 2 […]

Michael Philip Anderson (1959 - 2003)

United States Astronaut. 43 years old, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, he was chosen as an astronaut in 1994. He was a Payload Commander on the Space Shuttle Columbia. On February 1, 2003 NASA lost all communication and radar contact with the shuttle just minutes before a 9:16AM scheduled landing […]

Michael Powell (1905 - 1990)

Michael Powell entered the film industry in 1925 through working with director Rex Ingram at the Victorine Studios in Nice, France (the contact with Ingram was made through Powell’s father, who owned a hotel in Nice). He first started out as a general studio hand, the proverbial “gofer”: sweeping the floor, making coffee, fetching and […]

Michael Ritchie (1938 - 2001)

Ritchie was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) and Benbow Ferguson Ritchie. His family later moved to Berkeley, California, where his father was a professor of experimental psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his mother was the art and music librarian for the city. He attended Berkeley High […]

Michael Ruppert (1951 - 2014)

Michael Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was an American investigative journalist best known as the editor of the newsletter From The Wilderness (1999-2006) and author of the 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. After graduating with honours in Political Science […]

Michael Sarrazin (1940 - 2011)

He was born Jacques Michel André Sarrazin in Quebec City, Quebec, and moved to Montreal, Quebec, as a child. After acting in school plays he landed his first professional role at age 17. Sarrazin worked on television productions in Toronto, Ontario, and then gained a contract with Universal Studios. His early appearances include The Virginian (1965), […]

Michael Sheard (1938 - 2005)

Sheard was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; the son of a church minister, and was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. During his national service, Sheard was a Royal Air Force aircraft man. Sheard had a lengthy affiliation with science fiction, and appeared in six televised stories of the BBC science fiction television […]

Michael Smith (1945 - 1986)

Michael Smith was born April 30, 1945, in Beaufort, North Carolina. He graduated from Beaufort High School in 1963, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Science from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. He subsequently attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California, from which he graduated […]