My Take
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.
Overview
Michael York, OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is a British actor. After performing on stage with the Royal National Theatre, he had a breakthrough in films by playing Tybalt in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). He played leading roles in several major British and Hollywood films, especially in the 1970s.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Horse
- Origin
- Fulmer, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / voice actor / audiobook narrator / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- 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
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.