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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.

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  • Supermen synopsis, comments

    Supermen

    Gardner Dozois

    Mindexpanding 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...

  • Honky Tonk Samurai synopsis, comments

    Honky Tonk Samurai

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Only 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 ...

  • The Shores of Bohemia synopsis, comments

    The Shores of Bohemia

    John Taylor Williams

    An 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...

  • Stark synopsis, comments

    Stark

    Ben Elton

    Stark 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...

  • Domino synopsis, comments

    Domino

    Editors of domino

    From 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...

  • The Skinny Little Dinosaur synopsis, comments

    The Skinny Little Dinosaur

    Michael Williams

    The 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 ...

  • Nobody synopsis, comments

    Nobody

    Marc Lamont Hill

    Named 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...

  • Sherlock Holmes - Cry of the Innocents synopsis, comments

    Sherlock Holmes - Cry of the Innocents

    Cavan Scott

    A 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 ...

  • Undefeated synopsis, comments

    Undefeated

    Shaunie Henderson

    Shaunie Hendersonwife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wivesopens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded...

  • Scenes from My Life synopsis, comments

    Scenes from My Life

    Michael K. Williams & Jon Sternfeld

    NEW 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 ...

  • Music Comes Out of Silence synopsis, comments

    Music Comes Out of Silence

    András Schiff

    Andras 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'...

  • Staying on Track synopsis, comments

    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...

  • The Wilds of Poetry synopsis, comments

    The Wilds of Poetry

    David Hinton

    An 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...

  • You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty synopsis, comments

    You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

    Akwaeke Emezi

    A 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...

  • The Noel Diary synopsis, comments

    The Noel Diary

    Richard Paul Evans

    Now 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...

  • Dear White People synopsis, comments

    Dear White People

    Justin Simien

    Now 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” (...

  • Twelve Years a Slave synopsis, comments

    Twelve Years a Slave

    Solomon Northup

    The 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...

  • Hall of Smoke synopsis, comments

    Hall of Smoke

    H.M. Long

    Epic 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...

  • Old Mars synopsis, comments

    Old Mars

    George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Michael Moorcock, Joe R. Lansdale & James S. A. Corey

    Fifteen 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...

  • The Juice Generation synopsis, comments

    The Juice Generation

    Eric Helms

    From 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...

  • The Good New Stuff synopsis, comments

    The Good New Stuff

    Gardner Dozois

    Once 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...

  • Shoe Dog synopsis, comments

    Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight

    In 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...

  • The Furthest Horizon synopsis, comments

    The Furthest Horizon

    Gardner Dozois

    It 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 ...

  • Grace After Midnight synopsis, comments

    Grace After Midnight

    Felicia Pearson & David Ritz

    Felicia Pearson, who starred of the acclaimed television series The Wire, reveals her incredible, hardknock life story, one that dramatically parallels her television character. Wh...

  • Taste synopsis, comments

    Taste

    Stanley Tucci

    INSTANT 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 ...

  • Seeing Serena synopsis, comments

    Seeing Serena

    Gerald Marzorati

    A 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...

  • Firefight synopsis, comments

    Firefight

    Ginger Adams Otis

    In 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...

  • Michael Williams synopsis, comments

    Michael Williams

    Supreme Court of New York

    In 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...

  • Straight Shooter synopsis, comments

    Straight Shooter

    Stephen A. Smith

    America’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...

  • The Best of the Best, Volume 2 synopsis, comments

    The Best of the Best, Volume 2

    Gardner Dozois

    For 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...

  • Barack Before Obama synopsis, comments

    Barack Before Obama

    David Katz

    A 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...

  • The Verdun Affair synopsis, comments

    The Verdun Affair

    Nick Dybek

    Across 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...

  • The G Plan Diet synopsis, comments

    The G Plan Diet

    Amanda Hamilton & Hannah Ebelthite

    As 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...

  • CenterStage synopsis, comments

    CenterStage

    Michael Kay

    From 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...

  • How Life Imitates Sports synopsis, comments

    How Life Imitates Sports

    Ira Berkow

    Memorable 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...

  • David Copperfield synopsis, comments

    David Copperfield

    Charles Dickens

    Now 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...

  • The Cost of These Dreams synopsis, comments

    The Cost of These Dreams

    Wright Thompson

    The 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...

  • Jackrabbit Smile synopsis, comments

    Jackrabbit Smile

    Joe R. Lansdale

    Edgar 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...

  • Trousdale Estates synopsis, comments

    Trousdale Estates

    Steven M. Price

    Filled 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...

  • Shoe Dog synopsis, comments

    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 ...

  • Made In Scotland synopsis, comments

    Made In Scotland

    Billy Connolly

    THE 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...

  • Plum Island synopsis, comments

    Plum Island

    Michael Williams

    In 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...

  • Always Look on the Bright Side of Life synopsis, comments

    Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

    Eric Idle

    NEW 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...

  • Man and the Natural World synopsis, comments

    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 ...

  • Temple of No God synopsis, comments

    Temple of No God

    H.M. Long

    Epic 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...