
Michael Elphick
Known for: Acting
Born: September 19, 1946
Died: September 7, 2002
Michael John Elphick was an English actor. Elphick was known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, in particular his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders. Elphick struggled with a highly publicised addiction to alcohol; at the height of his problem he admitted to consuming two litres of spirits a day, which contributed towards his death from a heart attack in 2002.
Known for

The Element of Crime
1984

Bird Fancier
1985

C.Q.
1984

Black Island
1979

Streetwise
1996

Which Side Are You On?
1985

Pocketful of Dreams
1982

Chains
1982
Man Charged
1971

Blue Remembered Hills
1979

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy
1992
A Good Human Story
1977

Pig Bin
1974

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
1990

Privates on Parade
1983

Arthur's Hallowed Ground
1984
Norma
1974

Treasure Island
1995
The Little Farm
1973
Out of Bounds
2003

The Nearly Man
1974

The Fix
1997

The Knowledge
1979

Buddy's Song
1991

Withnail & I
1987
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
1984

The First Great Train Robbery
1978

Three Men in a Boat
1975

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978

Play Things
1976

Gorky Park
1983

The Buttercup Chain
1970

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985

The Elephant Man
1980

The Odd Job
1978
That Sinking Feeling
1973

Cry of the Banshee
1970

Ordeal by Innocence
1984

See No Evil
1971

Pirates
1986

Valhalla
1986

Last Summer
1977

Hamlet
1969

Red Shift
1978
Cold Harbour
1978

Where's Jack?
1969

The Supergrass
1985

Quadrophenia
1979

Hanging Around
1978

Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978

Much Ado About Nothing
1984

The Betrayal
1969

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983

Memed My Hawk
1984

Richard III
1995

Krull
1983

The Krays
1990

Let Him Have It
1991

O Lucky Man!
1973

Little Dorrit
1987

Three Up, Two Down
1985

Boon
1986

The Sweeney
1975

Private Schulz
1981

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
Harry
1993
Pebble Mill
1991
Pull The Other One
1984

Oxbridge Blues
1984

Crown Court
1972

Laurence Olivier Presents
1976

Super Gran
1985

Justice
1971

David Copperfield
1999

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983

Play for Today
1970

The Professionals
1977

This Year Next Year
1977

Playhouse
1974

The Misfit
1970

The Nearly Man
1974

Masada
1981

Hazell
1978

Shoestring
1979

The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976

Smiley's People
1982

Modern Times
1995

Country Matters
1972

Cribb
1980

Armchair Theatre
1956

Murder Most Horrid
1991

ITV Playhouse
1967
The Sunday Drama
1977

Stanley and the Women
1991

New Scotland Yard
1972
Second City Firsts
1973
Send in the Girls
1978