Michael Elphick
Acting
Biography
Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders.
Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.
As actor 123
Coronation Street
1960
Play for Today
1970
EastEnders
1985
Crown Court
1972
Pebble Mill
1991
The Bill
1984
The Professionals
1977
ITV Playhouse
1967
Playhouse
1974
The Sweeney
1975
Modern Times
1995
Boon
1986
The Elephant Man
1980
New Scotland Yard
1972
Department S
1969
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Justice
1971
The Brothers
1972
Smiley's People
1982
Krull
1983
Second City Firsts
1973
Masada
1981
David Copperfield
1999
Shoestring
1979
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Hadleigh
1969
Dangerfield
1995
Asterix and the Big Fight
1989
Gorky Park
1983
Super Gran
1985
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
Private Schulz
1981
Premiere
1977
See No Evil
1971
The Sunday Drama
1977
Cribb
1980
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
Withnail & I
1987
Pirates
1986
Hazell
1978
Three Up, Two Down
1985
Country Matters
1972
Harry
1993
Pirates
1994
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
Quadrophenia
1979
Adam Smith
1972
Richard III
1995
The Nearly Man
1974
Oxbridge Blues
1984
O Lucky Man!
1973
The Misfit
1970
Andy Robson
1982
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
The Element of Crime
1984
Metropolis
2000
This Year Next Year
1977
The Krays
1990
Parkin's Patch
1969
Stanley and the Women
1991
The Best Things In Life
1969
The Roads to Freedom
1970
Albert and Victoria
1970
Valhalla
1986
Let Him Have It
1991
Send in the Girls
1978
Play Things
1976
And Now the Screaming Starts!
1973
Memed My Hawk
1984
Treasure Island
1995
Armchair Theatre
1956
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990
Little Dorrit
1987
Holding On
1977
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
Bloomfield
1983
Jenny's War
1985
The Sound of Laughter
1977
Cry of the Banshee
1970
The Betrayal
1969
Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1981
Adult Fun
1972
Where's Jack?
1969
Late Starter
1985
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
The Odd Job
1978
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
1984
The Fix
1997
Hamlet
1969
Norma
1974
Buddy's Song
1991
Pull The Other One
1984
The Supergrass
1985
The Little Farm
1973
Privates on Parade
1983
Pig Bin
1974
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
Blue Remembered Hills
1979
The Buttercup Chain
1970
The Knowledge
1979
Streetwise
1996
Cold Harbour
1978
Three Men in a Boat
1975
Man Charged
1971
The Nearly Man
1974
Out of Bounds
2003
Last Summer
1977
Which Side Are You On?
1985
Bird Fancier
1985
Red Shift
1978
Chains
1982
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
Black Island
1979
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
1984
Hanging Around
1978
A Good Human Story
1977
That Sinking Feeling
1973
C.Q.
1984
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
1992
Pocketful of Dreams
1982