English actor Michael York.

Screw Maximilian!

Michael York in the original Murder On The Orient Express.

He's had a very serious health condition for ten years called Amyloidosis. It's terminal if something else doesn't kill him first.

That old fucker? How fucking old are you, op?!

The other night I watched the 1977 version of The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Burt Lancaster and Michael York.

Tasteful friends: has he ever presented dong?

Just asking for my aunt.

I saw him in a restaurant in Santa Monica in the '90s.

Not as hot as he was, but he still looked good.

In his autobiography, he says he tried homosexuality but decided it wasn’t for him.

R4 Don't be so shallow and vapid. He's more handsome than you will ever be and has achieved more success and money than you could ever hope to.

He was on “Law and Order”.

Major spaz

TOO GAY for me.

When Liza said, "Fuck Maxamillian!" and he responded, "I did," it was a major turning point in my realizing I was gay.

R6 I don't know but he has played a bisexual man in a couple of movies including Cabaret.

The British are more than likely than Americans to decide to not have children. They don’t seem to be as obsessed with breeding like Yankee couples. I respect that.

Saw him in the Mrs Gooch health food store, Beverly Hills, early 90s. Quite handsome and very friendly.

Was he in Logan's Run or was that a different but similar movie?

r8, he's lying

Big time closet case. If he wrote that, he probably because he thought one of his ex-bfs might come forward

With an hereditary diseases make sense not having kids.

r17 yes he was logan.

R8 With his androgynous good looks he appeals to both women and men. I'm glad that he admitted that he tried homosexuality but with the freedom of show business I suspect that he may lean toward being bisexual.

Always pinged for me

He has serious BDF

Basil !

He also played Carruthers.

His appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm are so random. Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, I get. Michael York?!

Logan's Run was huge. Still is, for the enthusiasts.

Logan’s Run was shit

Mama mia! He looks like a lion's insolent cub.

50 years ago...

R1: "I do."

I've always liked him. Particularly in "Cabaret", which I watch at least once or twice a month.

He plays a pansexual scheming twink in Something for Everyone, also starring Angela Lansbury.

2 cute 2 be str8.

Michael York was so gorgeous back in the day. His androgynous looks remind me of the German actor Karlheinz Böhm who was the star of the film Peeping Tom.

Hot hot hot.

He was gorgeous in Cabaret. Beautiful face and body.

Cabaret is on Movies! ! thismonth, also on TCM later tonight

All the guys I dated back in the 80s seemed to have love/hate fixations on him. I like the fact that he's willing to play silly roles.

Yes, R33, he was at his peak in Something for Everyone. Check out from 14:00. He has a long French kiss with the same actor near the film's end.

Science Fiction movie Logan's Run was the first Michael York movie that I ever saw. It was a big hit at the box office and spawned a short lived TV show.

He and Faye were delicious together in The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge.

R41 Farrah Fawcett had a small part in Logan's Run just as she was becoming famous and she overshadowed the female lead in the film and brought more publicity to the movie.

Michael York was born on March 27, 1942 which makes him 78 years of age.

He was in Knots Landing!

Knots Landing!!

He was in Knots Landing!

Knots Landing!!

Ravishingly handsome.

Then and now.

[quote]When Liza said, "Fuck Maxamillian!" and he responded, "I did," it was a major turning point in my realizing I was gay.

Actually, HE said "Fuck Maximilian!" and SHE said "I do."

And then he added, "So do I..."

I saw him in CAMELOT on stage in 2007. He was wonderful and looked great. It's upsetting he's battling a rare disease, Amyloidosis. It's fatal so he may not have much time left.. He's been sick since 2013 and it's a miracle he's still alive, poor guy.

A great looking actor who was good, in part, because he was clearly free of any vanity about his looks and didn’t take himself too seriously. Rare in the past, almost unheard of now. It meant he could do drama and comedy equally as well. Witness Cabaret and The Three Musketeers.

His grace and bravery now are admirable and the mark of a real gentleman. Again, not many of them about these days.

I wondered why he did not work much.

When I lived in NYC in the 80s, it was quite accepted that he was gay. I saw him one night at the Metropolitan Opera. He was sitting near me and he looked very handsome. Besides Cabaret, I loved him in the Three Musketeers.

Great actor. He was robbed of an Oscar nomination for Cabaret!

Something For Everyone is a must see. So much fun.

He was pretty cute in the 70s and usually had a likable screen persona, but he made way too much dreck.

He's done several spots on The Simpsons the last few years. His illness has robbed him of his looks (it can attack your lymphatic system and distort your face) so voice work is still possible. Love him!

[quote] In his autobiography, he says he tried homosexuality but decided it wasn’t for him.

Once upon a time that's what you said to cover your tracks in case one of your tricks comes forward and sells his story to the press.

He was very good (and creepy) in that Law&Order: Criminal Intent episode.

I remember a long ago late night TV appearance, perhaps on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, after York had (I think) written a book.

The host remarked that the book didn't contain any negative juicy gossip.

York paused and replied that the world had enough negativity around and he felt no need to add to it.

He wasn't snotty or condescending, just being honest.

That remark made me like him a lot. And everything I've seen him in as well, starting with his Lucentio in Franco Zeffirelli's "The Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 1967.

One of the family.

R15

Correction; make that dead common British; royalty and peers (especially eldest sons) are still expected to marry and breed children in hopes of getting an heir.

As for rest of it; given the not so small numbers of married or single; straight, gay or lesbian that trek to Ukraine, US or anywhere else legally possible to have infants via surrogacy would say desire to breed is rather strong in UK.

I started the thread on him last year.

Actually he still looked quite good up until 2009.

I always confuse him with Richard Chamberlain (from another continent, and not married to a woman for 52 years.)

Every time I see a photo of him I am surprised all over again that he's not quite handsome. He's so appealing and sexy in his old movies that I always think of him as better-looking than he really was. I guess he had "it."

R63 He also had/has that incredibly sexy voice.

The same kind of sexually ambiguous, up-for-anything aura that Terence Stamp exuded. No real contemporary equivalent, no.

I liked him in those 2 Three Musketeers films that came out in the '70s.

Never though he was remotely good looking or sexy. The voice is the only reason he got a job.

He wasn't classically handsome, but the camera found him interesting from every angle. He's also a talented actor, and the voice was to die for. It's not surprising he was as successful as he was for as long as he was.

When Fosse was casting Cabaret, he asked the casting director to find him a "Michael York type" to play Brian. York heard about this and called Fosse, asking "Will the real Michael York do?"

[quote]Actually, HE said "Fuck Maximilian!" and SHE said "I do."

ACTUALLY, as R1 pointed out, he said "SCREW Maximillian," not "fuck."

R68 Fascinating. Raquel Welch did something similar. When the producers of Myra Breckinridge were casting for a beautiful, sexy woman to play the female lead, she thought that it sounded just like her so she phoned up the big shots and asked them if she could have the role - and they gave it to her.

In his movie debut "The Taming Of The Shrew."

Yes, he was great on the L&O CI episode. Outperforming DiFornio and overshadowing Olivia Jane d'Abo was no small feat. But the writing was pretty good too.

He is a treasure, no doubt.

personally i am and was more of a simon maccorkindale fan! during his blond hair and fit body prime... like in "manimal" tv show and his tv movies wearing speedos..

"His grace and bravery now are admirable and the mark of a real gentleman. Again, not many of them about these days."

Yeah, everyone was so much better back in the Jim Crow era

R60, thank you for your OPINION.

That's right, folks! It's official! Calling Michael York graceful and brave under the onslaught of his illness is now RACIST!

Thanks, R74, for stepping in to remind us of all the little microaggressions we commit every second of every day! I, for one, will never say another good word about someone suffering from amyloidosis!

Is his voice still the same? At least as of 2007? His voice had an amazing resonance.

Logan's Run is a great movie! And campy too in its old age. Occasionally I glance at my palms to see if I should make a run for it or go to Carousel and spin off the planet 🌏

R76, I'm noticing some very strange trollish remarks on various threads this morning. They're not entirely related to the thread topic but spout some weird opinion. Like on the Pelosi hairdo thread, someone jumps in and makes generic, ill-informed pro-Trump remarks like someone who's being paid by the post but whose work at the troll farm isn't being reviewed. This could be one of them.

r79, yes, Jim Crow. DL wants to believe everything was better in the past which is weird because no one has benefited from social progress more than gays. Conservatives are backwards-looking people.

He was never quite handsome, but my god was be gorgeous when he was young. Just stunning, such beautiful eyes! I remember watching the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet in high school, but thinking Tybalt was so much cuter than Romeo. Been a fan ever since, and sincerely hope he is doing well despite his illness.

Nary a nomination! How does that happen?

I always get him mixed up with Susannah.

Together in "Conduct Unbecoming" (1975). He looks good in uniform.

The movie Withnail and I is about an ill-starred druggy weekend he spent with a friend in some cottage in England. York isn't in it.

R74 - I was talking about his handling of a horribly debilitating disease, which he has done with grace and bravery undeniably. But, you know, staple a non-sequitur in there in some fatuous attempt to garner woke points by derailing a thread pointlessly.

Why not step away from the keyboard, take a deep breath and begin to develop an intellect.

I thought he was HAF as D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers. He had such a boyish, naive charm.

"I was talking about his handling of a horribly debilitating disease, which he has done with grace and bravery undeniably."

While implying no one today has these traits.

Btw, using "woke" as an insult exposes you for the Trumpster that you are.

Why don't you step away from the keyboard and develop an intellect. Maybe read some books, but as a Republican reading might be hard for you.

I'm a Democrat voting for Biden, R88, but I've gotta say that you come across as overreaching and cranky. I think that everyone agrees that grace and bravery have always been in short supply and that it's nice to see both qualities in York.

r89, I have to say you come across as pretty cranky.

Guilty as charged, R90; I'm a cranky bastard.

^ Unless you have something to say about MY shut the fuck up, both of you.

He also invented peppermint patties.

R92, all of my posts were about MY until someone called me out about being cranky.

[quote] no one has benefited from social progress more than WHITE gays.

FIXED.

Some pinheads here.

JFC, I regret taking the troll bait that's descended to Fox News level.

Back to Michael York.

MY Top Five:

Cabaret

Something for Everyone

England Made Me

Conduct Unbecoming

Accident

O/T, but that great, truly creepy episode of L&O:C.I. that he starred in - 'Slither' - also featured a young Michael Stuhlbarg .

(And, a minor actor I went to high school with - John Bolger. As long as I'm mentioning costars.)

I love LOGAN'S RUN despite it's half baked nature. He's excellent in it and what a great face and voice.. He can make the most absurd dialogue seem believable, sign of a talented actor. And sexy as hell!

His smile was unforgettable.

Fosse was a genius.

He looked very fey in Murder On The Orient Express, like his hair had been given a wavy permanent. But still looked okay. Although he looks much better without a moustache - they don't suit him. By the way the original Murder On The Orient Express was such a gorgeous production. Love it!