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Michael Kilgarriff

Actor · b. 1937 · Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

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.

Movies12

  • Movie7.2

    The Dark Crystal

    1982 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie6.2

    Camelot

    1967 · 82 votes

  • Movie7.6
  • Movie4.4

    Blanche Neige, la suite

    Snow White: The Sequel

    2007 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.0

    We Joined the Navy

    1963 · 10 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Doctor Who: Robot

    1975 · 15 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie7.0

    Carnival of Monsters

    1999 · 1 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.7

    Wings Over Everest

    1934 · 10 votes

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Series11

  • TV7.9

    Doctor Who

    1963 · 722 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.7

    UFO

    1970 · 62 votes

  • TV9.0

    The Jim Henson Hour

    1989 · 11 votes

  • TV8.2

    The Storyteller

    1988 · 243 votes

  • TV6.9

    Tipping the Velvet

    2002 · 46 votes

  • TV7.0

    Men of Affairs

    1973 · 1 votes

  • TV6.0

    Oscar's Orchestra

    1995 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Upchat Line

    1977 · 3 votes

  • TV
  • TV

    Taxi!

    1963