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Michael Kilgarriff

Acting
Known For

88 Years Old

Michael Kilgarriff (born 16 June 1937)is a British actor, author and pianist from Brighton. As an actor, he is well known for his rich voice and height. His film and television roles include The Dark Crystal (1982) as the General, and the Doctor Who serials The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), Robot (1974–75) and Attack of the Cybermen (1985). At six feet five inches (1.96 m) tall, he is sought for certain roles, such as the Cyber Controller in Doctor Who, a role he played in 1967 and 1985. He appeared in the same series as an Ogron (1973) and as the eponymous K1 Robot in the story Robot (1974–75). He returned to play the K1 robot in the Big Finish Productions Bernice Summerfield audio adventure The Relics of Jegg-Sau. He did voice work for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix as Obelix, the Jim Henson movie The Dark Crystal (1982) as SkekUng, the Garthim master (Named "The General" in the movie), was film director Joe Steiner in the UFO episode "Conflict", and played the part of the Green King in the BBC Television serial The Moon Stallion (1978). In 1979, he provided voices for several characters in the cult television adventure series "Monkey" when it was dubbed into English. These were invariably gruff, often villainous characters, including warlords and demons.

Born

Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK on 16th June 1937

All Credits

Doctor Who Image
Doctor Who
Cyberman Controller
Doctor Who Image
Doctor Who
Second Ogron
Doctor Who Image
Doctor Who
Robot
Doctor Who Image
Doctor Who
UFO Image
UFO
Steiner
The Storyteller Image
The Storyteller
Pond Sprite (voice)
The Storyteller Image
The Storyteller
Lion (voice)
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Oscar's Orchestra
Tipping the Velvet Image
Tipping the Velvet
Music Hall Chairman
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The Upchat Line
Husband
The Dark Crystal Image
The Dark Crystal
General (voice)
Camelot Image
Camelot
Sir Paul (uncredited)
Taxi! Image
Taxi!
Ron Farnes
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Image
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen Image
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Cyber Controller
Snow White: The Sequel Image
Snow White: The Sequel
The Ogre (voice)
We Joined the Navy Image
We Joined the Navy
Claude
Doctor Who: Robot Image
Doctor Who: Robot
The Robot
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space Image
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
Second Ogron
The Story of Doctor Who Image
The Story of Doctor Who
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story Image
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Cyberman Controller (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen Image
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Cyber Controller
The Story of Music Hall Image
The Story of Music Hall
Self
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Taxi!
Ron Farnes
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Carnival of Monsters
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead Image
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
K1 Robot (archive footage)
Albert's Speech Image
Albert's Speech
Voice of God
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Wings Over Everest
Narrator
Are Friends Electric? Image
Are Friends Electric?