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Michael Williams Biography & Facts
Michael Leonard Williams (9 July 1935 – 11 January 2001) was a British actor who played both classical and comedy roles. He was best known for co-starring in the sitcom A Fine Romance with his wife Dame Judi Dench, and for voicing Dr. Watson in the long-running Sherlock Holmes adaptations for BBC Radio. Biography Williams was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. Williams married Judi Dench on 5 February 1971, the same year in which they co-starred in a stage production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. They had one daughter, Finty Williams, who is also an actress. Williams was also godfather to the actor Rory Kinnear.Williams was the President of the Roman Catholic Actors' Guild. Shortly before his death from lung cancer aged 65, Williams was appointed a Knight of St Gregory (KSG) by Pope John Paul II for his contribution to Catholic life in Britain. The honour was officially bestowed upon him at home on 10 January 2001. He died the next day, and was buried in the churchyard of St Leonard's, the Anglican parish church of Charlecote, Warwickshire. Williams was a fan of Everton FC. Filmography Film Television Select radio roles Stage roles Principal stage appearances; mostly with the Royal Shakespeare Company: Also appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Theatre-Go-Round Festival, Round House Theatre, London, 1970. References External links Michael Williams at IMDb Performances listed in Theatre Archive, University of Bristol. Discover the Michael Williams popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Michael Williams books.
Best Seller Michael Williams Books of 2024
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Supermen
Gardner DozoisMindexpanding explorations of the future of the human formOur bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to a...
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Honky Tonk Samurai
Joe R. LansdaleOnly Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and selfproclaimed white ...
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The Shores of Bohemia
John Taylor WilliamsAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Stark
Ben EltonStark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying.Deep in Western Australia wher...
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Domino
Editors of dominoFrom the editors of domino magazine comes your essential guide to discovering your personal style and creating a space you love.Since launching in 2005, domino has attracted a fier...
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The Skinny Little Dinosaur
Michael WilliamsThe Skinny Little Dinosaur is a sweet little dino tail for you to read to and interact with your child. An illustrated adventure where our Skinny Little Dinosaur meets new friends ...
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Nobody
Marc Lamont HillNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus ReviewsA New York Times Editor’s ChoiceNautilus Award Winner“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights liter...
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Sherlock Holmes - Cry of the Innocents
Cavan ScottA HOLY MYSTERYIt is 1891, and a catholic priest arrives at 221b baker street, only to utter the words “il corpe” before suddenly dropping dead.Though the man’s death is attributed ...
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Undefeated
Shaunie HendersonShaunie Hendersonwife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wivesopens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded...
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Scenes from My Life
Michael K. Williams & Jon SternfeldNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hardwon success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give ...
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Music Comes Out of Silence
András SchiffAndras Schiff is one of the most important pianists of our time. This stimulating account of his life and work, told in two parts, takes readers on an intimate journey from Schiff'...
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Staying on Track
Nigel Mansell'EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING...REMARKABLY FRANK' DAILY TELEGRAPH 50 GREATEST SPORTS BOOKS OF ALL TIME After finishing as runnerup three times in the drivers' world championship, in 1992...
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The Wilds of Poetry
David HintonAn exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avantgarde poets a thril...
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke EmeziA Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar...
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The Noel Diary
Richard Paul EvansNow a Netflix film starring Justin Hartley! In this holidaythemed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best...
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Dear White People
Justin SimienNow a Netflix Original Series In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the “incredibly entertaining” (...
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Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon NorthupThe story that inspired the major motion picture, with an introduction by the bestselling author of Wench, Dolen PerkinsValdez, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing, vividly detaile...
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Hall of Smoke
H.M. LongEpic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and f...
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Old Mars
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Michael Moorcock, Joe R. Lansdale & James S. A. CoreyFifteen allnew stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multipleaward winning editor Gardner Dozois Burroughs’s A Pr...
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The Juice Generation
Eric HelmsFrom one of America’s foremost and pioneering juicing companies comes a beautifully illustrated guide to creating restorative and energizing juices and smoothies; as well as prepar...
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The Good New Stuff
Gardner DozoisOnce the mainstay of science fiction, adventure stories fell out of favor during the 1960s and early 1970s. But in recent years, science fiction writers have spun out galaxyspannin...
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Shoe Dog
Phil KnightIn this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously mediashy man behind the sw...
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The Furthest Horizon
Gardner DozoisIt is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of timefutures almost unimaginably ...
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Grace After Midnight
Felicia Pearson & David RitzFelicia Pearson, who starred of the acclaimed television series The Wire, reveals her incredible, hardknock life story, one that dramatically parallels her television character. Wh...
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Taste
Stanley TucciINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a Notable Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington PostFrom awardwinning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming ...
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Seeing Serena
Gerald MarzoratiA riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying medit...
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Firefight
Ginger Adams OtisIn 1919, when Wesley Williams became a New York City firefighter, he stepped into a world that was 100% white and predominantly Irish. As far as this city knew, black men in the Fi...
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Michael Williams
Supreme Court of New YorkIn an action to recover damages for false arrest, plaintiff appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kassoff, J.), dated November 10, 1980, which granted defe...
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Straight Shooter
Stephen A. SmithAmerica’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author and CEO o...
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The Best of the Best, Volume 2
Gardner DozoisFor more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for...
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Barack Before Obama
David KatzA People Pick of the Week One of USA Today’s 5 Books Not to MissOne of Forbes’ 5 Books to Read in DecemberA personal, intimate photographic celebration of President Barack Oba...
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The Verdun Affair
Nick DybekAcross a continent still reeling from World War I, a “ravishingly beautiful” (Paula McClain) story about a love affair between two Americans and the lie that changes everything.Fra...
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The G Plan Diet
Amanda Hamilton & Hannah EbelthiteAs seen on ITV's Save Money: Good Health 'The beauty of the G Plan is that it's about abundance...You'll be surprised how quickly positive affects appear!' Top Sante'G Plan the d...
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CenterStage
Michael KayFrom the longtime host of the New York Yankees’ television broadcasts, ESPN Radio’s The Michael Kay Show, and YES Network’s Emmy Award–winning CenterStage comes an “entertaining…gr...
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How Life Imitates Sports
Ira BerkowMemorable Stories From a Half Century of Sports Journalism For the last half century, Pulitzer Prize–winning sportswriter Ira Berkow has been at the center of some of the most memo...
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David Copperfield
Charles DickensNow a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelis...
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The Cost of These Dreams
Wright ThompsonThe instant New York Times bestseller!From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of grea...
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Jackrabbit Smile
Joe R. LansdaleEdgar Awardwinner and fan favorite Joe R. Lansdale is back with Hap and Leonard's latest caper: investigating the disappearance of a revivalist cult leader's daughter. Hap and Leon...
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Trousdale Estates
Steven M. PriceFilled with beautiful, vivid photographs, Trousdale is the definitive history of the architecture and design that defined both Beverly Hills and the ultimate American Dream.Trousda...
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight“An eyeopening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company.” School Library Journal“A great story about how an ambition turned into a business…serves as a ...
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Made In Scotland
Billy ConnollyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is act...
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Plum Island
Michael WilliamsIn 1954, the USDA established the Plum Island animal disease center. They were reported to be conducting biological warfare research. It was then reported that in 1994, Russian sci...
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Eric IdleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot (now back on Broadway!), comes an absurdly funny memoir...
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Man and the Natural World
Sir Keith Thomas'Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything why we eat what we do, why we ...
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Temple of No God
H.M. LongEpic fantasy followup to HALL OF SMOKE, featuring crumbling empires, secretive cults and godlike powers to be claimed, for readers of Margaret Owen, Brian Staveley, V. E. Schwab an...