Michael Duffield

Michael Duffield
Born	1915 England
Died	July 1986 (aged 71) Toorak, Victoria, Australia[1]
Occupation	Actor
Years active	?–1986

Michael Duffield (1915 – June 1986^[1]) was an English-born character actor who worked in Australia for many decades.^[2][3] He was nominated for the 1979 AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in The Last of the Knucklemen,^[4] a role he was reprising from the original stage production.^[5]

Duffield was also a prominent theatre actor, starting from 1950, with numerous career characters with the Melbourne Theatre Company, he won awards in 1962 for his performance on stage in The Caretaker and also was notable for playing. Winston Churchill in the production "The Soldiers". Whilst on television he appeared in numerous televised live plays.^[1]

He died in June 1986, aged 71 and was survived by a wife and three children.^[1]

Select filmography

• Night of the Ding-Dong (1961)
• Quiet Night (1961)
• Two-Headed Eagle (1961)
• Fury in Petticoats (1962)
• Suspect (1962)
• Fly by Night (1962)
• The Music Upstairs (1962)
• The White Carnation (1963)^[6]
• The Prisoner (1963)^[7]
• On Approval (1964)
• Corruption in the Palace of Justice (1964)
• Luther (1964)
• A Provincial Lady (1964)
• Otherwise Engaged (1964)
• Macbeth (1965)
• Photo Finish (1965)
• Campaign for One (1965)
• Cobwebs in Concrete (1968)
• Two Thousand Weeks (1969)
• The Cheerful Cuckold (1969)
• The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)

References

1. "Veteran Actor Dies". The Age. 17 June 1986. p. 4.
2. [Biographical cuttings on Michael Duffield, actor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals], 1900, retrieved 19 October 2020
3. Simons, Margaret (25 July 1983). "Taking characters very much to heart". The Age. p. 14.
4. Kuipers, Richard. "The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)". Australian Screen. NFSA. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
5. Connolly, Keith (September–October 1979). "Film Reviews". Cinema Papers.
6. "TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS". The Canberra Times. Vol. 37, no. 10, 548. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 May 1963. p. 35. Retrieved 19 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
7. "Famous Play Tonight". The Canberra Times. Vol. 37, no. 10, 524. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 1 May 1963. p. 33. Retrieved 19 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

• Michael Duffield at IMDb
• Michael Duffield at Ausstage