Michael York

Michael York is one of those actors who made the 1970s feel genuinely glamorous — Oxford-educated, classically trained with the National Theatre, and then boom, he's Tybalt in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and the world takes notice. What I love about him is the range he never got enough credit for: he could do swashbuckling adventure in The Three Musketeers, existential dread in Logan's Run, and Cabaret's bohemian Berlin all in the same decade. And then there's his audiobook narration career, which earned him an Audie Award — that voice was doing serious work long after the film marquees stopped calling. OBE, Hollywood Walk of Fame star — the man accumulated honors as quietly as he accumulated craft. A proper British thoroughbred who made Hollywood look like it had taste.

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Name (English)

Michael York

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・ヨーク

Reading

まいける・よーく

Born

March 27, 1942 (age 84)

Origin

Fulmer, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / voice actor / audiobook narrator / film actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

University

University College, Oxford

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Order of Danica Hrvatska
• Mary Pickford Award
• Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

• Official sitehttps://www.michaelyork.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/michaelyorkobe
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20York
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298777

Tags

• actor
• voice actor
• audiobook narrator

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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