A blond British actor whose handsome features were marred by his broken nose (a result of a childhood attempt to fly by leaping off the roof of a building), Michael York has seen his career span some five decades, but he is perhaps best recalled for a string of films in the late 1960s and 70s and his TV appearances from the mid-1970s on.
Born Michael Johnson to an army officer turned businessman and his musician wife, he began his acting career as a teenager in a 1956 production of "The Yellow Jacket". Three years later, he made his West End debut with a one-line role in a production of "Hamlet"....
