Michael Medwin

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Michael Medwin
OBE
Born
Michael Hugh Medwin

(1923-07-18)18 July 1923
London, England
Died26 February 2020(2020-02-26) (aged 96)
Bournemouth, England
Occupation(s)Actor, film producer
Years active1940–2008
Spouse
Sunny Sheila Back
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(m. 1960; div. 1971)​

Michael Hugh Medwin,

OBE (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer.[1]

Life and career

Medwin was born in London.[1] He was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland.[2] He first appeared on stage in 1940.[2]

Medwin's

Lyric Hammersmith.[3] He also played Lloyd Dallas in one of the casts of the long-running production of Noises Off in the early 1980s.[3]

He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the

UK Singles Chart in 1958, where it peaked at number 5.[5][6][7]

As well as his role in Shoestring, he played Colin's boss Mr Langley (of the Langley Book of Horror) in the Mel Smith comedy series Colin's Sandwich.[2] In 1961, Medwin played the lead named Michael in BBC Radio Light Programme comedy series about an advertising company called Something to Shout About.[8] In the same year he was the lead role in all 26 episodes of the comedy series Three Live Wires.

He made many film appearances, taking a leading role as Ginger Edwards in the 1953 Guy Hamilton film The Intruder, for which one critic wrote that Medwin "gives a brilliant study of a good fellow gone wrong."[9] Others included

Mick Travis character from their earlier film.[6][7] Medwin has been quoted many times as saying "I knew at a young age I was going to be an actor: acting has always been in my bones". He also said that Charles Laughton and Edward G. Robinson were the two biggest influences in his life of acting, and considered being appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queens Birthday Honour's List for Services to Drama the single greatest thing that ever happened to him.[12]

As a play producer, his work includes Spring and Port Wine, Alpha Beta, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Forget Me Not Lane and Another Country.[3] Medwin formed with David Pugh in 1988, David Pugh Limited, a West End and Broadway theatrical production company, of which he remained chairman until his death on 26 February 2020.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c "Michael Medwin: Shoestring actor dies aged 96 - BBC News". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Baxter, Brian (28 February 2020). "Michael Medwin obituary" – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. ^ a b c d Biographical note for Michael Medwin, from programme for Noises Off, Savoy Theatre, December 1984.
  4. ^ "Michael Medwin | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  5. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
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  6. ^ a b c "Michael Medwin". Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2015. at the B.F.I -Accessed 19 December 2015
  7. ^
    All Movie Guide. Archived from the original
    on 22 December 2015.New York Times by Hal Erickson, Rani,All Movie Guide- Accessed 19 December 2015
  8. ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Something to Shout About, Series 2, Episode 2". BBC.
  9. ^ Campbell Dixon, The Daily Telegraph, 17 October 1953, quoted on the programme note for 'Projecting the Archive - The Intruder', BFI Documentation Unit, 2012.
  10. ^ "Memorial Enterprises". BFI. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017.
  11. ^ "IF - Festival de Cannes".
  12. ^ Boal, Daniel. "Obituary: Michael Medwin, TV and film actor".

External links

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