Michael Medwin

Michael Hugh Medwin OBE (born 18 July 1923) is an English actor and film producer.

Born in London, he was educated at Canford School, Dorset and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940.

He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television detective series Shoestring and for his role in The Army Game, a British television comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Alfie Bass he took the theme tune from The Army Game into the charts.

As well as his role in Shoestring, he played Colin's boss Mr Langley (of the Langley Book Of Horror) in the Mel Smith comedy series Colin's Sandwich.

He made many film appearances, including Carry On Nurse and The Longest Day, before turning to film producing. His best-known work as producer is probably the 1968 film If...., which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He worked again with its director, Lindsay Anderson, on its sequel, O Lucky Man!.

Partial Filmography

• Operation Diamond (1948)
• Anna Karenina (1948)
• Helter Skelter (1948)
• Boys in Brown (1949)
• Four in a Jeep (1951)
• Miss Robin Hood (1952)
• Malta Story (1953)
• Above Us the Waves (1955)
• Doctor at Sea (1955)
• Charley Moon (1956)
• A Hill in Korea (1956)
• Checkpoint (1956)
• Doctor at Large (1957)
• The Steel Bayonet (1957)
• The Duke Wore Jeans (1958)
• Carry on Nurse (1959)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Crooks Anonymous (1962)
• It's All Happening (1963)
• Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963)
• Night Must Fall (1964)
• The Sandwich Man (1966)
• A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
• Scrooge (1970)
• O Lucky Man! (1973)
• Law and Disorder (1974)
• The Sea Wolves (1980)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• The Jigsaw Man (1983)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)

External links

• Michael Medwin at the Internet Movie Database