Person
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Acting · 1899–1978 · Willesden, London, England
Biography
Micheál Mac Liammóir (born Alfred Willmore; 25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978) was an actor, designer, dramatist, writer and impresario in 20th-century Ireland. Though born in London to an English family with no Irish connections, he emigrated to Ireland in early adulthood, changed his name, invented an Irish ancestry, and remained based there for the rest of his life, successfully maintaining a fabricated identity as a native Irishman born in Cork.
Known for
Omnibus
Poor Tom
The Verdict Is Yours
1958
On Trial
Oscar Wilde
Othello
Iago
Tom Jones
Narrator (voice)
The Kremlin Letter
Sweet Alice
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Actor (archive footage)
What's the Matter with Helen?
Hamilton Starr
King Lear
Poor Tom
Filming Othello
1979
Filmography
- 2021Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson WellesSelf
- 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson WellesSelf - Actor (archive footage)
- 1982The Orson Welles StorySelf
- 1979Filming Othello
- 1974ClydescopeNarrator (voice)
- 1973The Secret
- 1971What's the Matter with Helen?Hamilton Starr
- 1970The Kremlin LetterSweet Alice
- 196830 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!Irish Storyteller
- 1966Joyce’s DublinNarrator
- 1963Tom JonesNarrator (voice)
- 1960The Trial of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde
- 1960On TrialOscar Wilde
- 1958The Verdict Is Yours
- 1953King LearPoor Tom
- 1953Return to GlennascaulProducer
- 1953From Time to TimeNarrator
- 1952OmnibusPoor Tom
- 1951OthelloIago
- 1950W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
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