Michael York OBE born Michael Hugh Johnson 27 March 1942 is an English actor After performing onstage with the Royal National Theatre he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirellis Romeo and Juliet 1968 His blond blueeyed boyish looks and English upper social class demeanor saw him play leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films of the 1970s His best known roles include Konrad Ludwig in Something for Everyone 1970 Geoffrey RichterDouglas in Zeppelin 1971 Brian Roberts in Cabaret 1972 George Conway in Lost Horizon 1973 DArtagnan in The Three Musketeers also 1973 and its two sequels Count Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Logan 5 in Logans Run 1976 In his later career he found success as Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers film series 19972002 He is a twotime Emmy Award nominee for the ABC Afterschool Special Are You My Mother 1986 and the AMC series The Lot 2001 In 2002 he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael York licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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