Biography 

            Michael York has enjoyed a successful career for over 40 years, creating an impressive body of work on stage, screen and in the recording studio.

            A member of Britain’s National Youth Theatre  and a graduate of Oxford University, he joined the National Theatre company and made his film debut in “The Taming of the Shrew”.

        York's more than 60 other screen credits include “Romeo and Juliet”, “Cabaret”, “Something for Everyone”, “Jesus of Nazareth", “The Three Musketeers”, “Logan’s Run”, “The Island of Doctor Moreau", “Murder on the Orient Express”, “Conduct Unbecoming” and “Fedora”. He played in all three “Austin Powers” movies, and the two “Omega Code" films. He has just finished filming “Mika & Alfred”.

     Television work includes "The Forsyte Saga”, "Great Expectations", "Space, ”The Far Country”, "The Heat of the Day", "The Lot" and"Curb Your Enthusiasm”. He was recently a guest on “The Simpsons” and the 100th episode of “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”.

            Among his Broadway credits are “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me”, “Bent”,  "The Little Prince”, “The Crucible”, “Ring Round The Moon” and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ “Outcry”. Last year he was King Arthur in a US tour of “Camelot”.

            York has recorded over 70 audio books including his children’s book, “The Magic Paw Paw”. Grammy-nominated for “Treasure Island”, he won awards for “The Fencing Master”, “Creating True Peace” and “Goodbye to Berlin”. He both recorded the Tennyson/Strauss "Enoch Arden" and performed it internationally in concert. He is currently recording the entire Bible.

       As well as presenting Shakespeare with music at the Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl and with the Fort Worth Symphony, he has narrated concert versions of "Henry V", "Christopher Columbus", “Peer Gynt”, Mozart’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio”, and “Amadeus” in which he played Salieri.

  His autobiography, “Accidentally on Purpose”, was followed by “A Shakespearean Actor Prepares” and  “Dispatches from Armageddon”. His most recent book is “Are My Blinkers Showing?”

      York has been awarded Britain’s OBE, France’s Arts et Lettres, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

      Chairman of the California Youth Theatre, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife Pat, the celebrated photographer. 

      More information at www.michaelyork.net