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 100
Play for Today
1970
Crown Court
1972
The Professionals
1977
Playhouse
1974
Pebble Mill
1991
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Sweeney
1975
Modern Times
1995
Boon
1986
Justice
1971
Murder Most Horrid
1991
New Scotland Yard
1972
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
The Elephant Man
1980
Shoestring
1979
Krull
1983
David Copperfield
1999
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
Masada
1981
Super Gran
1985
Second City Firsts
1973
Private Schulz
1981
Withnail & I
1987
The Sunday Drama
1977
Harry
1993
Hazell
1978
Smiley's People
1982
Cribb
1980
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976
Country Matters
1972
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
The First Great Train Robbery
1978
Oxbridge Blues
1984
The Misfit
1970
Pirates
1986
Quadrophenia
1979
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Gorky Park
1983
Three Up, Two Down
1985
The Krays
1990
The Sound of Laughter
1977
O Lucky Man!
1973
Armchair Theatre
1956
Richard III
1995
Ordeal by Innocence
1984
Norma
1974
This Year Next Year
1977
The Nearly Man
1974
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
See No Evil
1971
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990
Valhalla
1986
The Betrayal
1969
Let Him Have It
1991
The Element of Crime
1984
Little Dorrit
1987
Stanley and the Women
1991
Holding On
1977
Bloomfield
1983
Play Things
1976
Pig Bin
1974
Treasure Island
1995
Send in the Girls
1978
Memed My Hawk
1984
The Fix
1997
Cry of the Banshee
1970
Pull The Other One
1984
Where's Jack?
1969
Privates on Parade
1983
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
Hamlet
1969
The Knowledge
1979
The Odd Job
1978
Pocketful of Dreams
1982
Blue Remembered Hills
1979
Three Men in a Boat
1975
The Nearly Man
1974
Buddy's Song
1991
Much Ado About Nothing
1984
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
The Buttercup Chain
1970
The Supergrass
1985
Out of Bounds
2003
Which Side Are You On?
1985
Bird Fancier
1985
The Little Farm
1973
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
1984
Cold Harbour
1978
Man Charged
1971
Red Shift
1978
Last Summer
1977
The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
1992
Streetwise
1996
Black Island
1979
A Good Human Story
1977
Chains
1982
That Sinking Feeling
1973
C.Q.
1984
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
1984
Hanging Around
1978