Michael Martin Harvey
Michael Martin Harvey (birth registered as Jack Seaforth Harvey, baptised as Jack Seaforth Elton Harvey, 18 April 1897 – 30 June 1975)[1][2][3] was an English actor.[4] He was the son of the stage actor/manager Sir John Martin-Harvey and brother of actress Muriel Martin-Harvey.[5]
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Born | John Selwyn Elton Martin Harvey 18 April 1897 London, England |
Died | 30 June 1975 78) Great Bircham, Norfolk, England | (aged
Other names | Jack Seaforth Elton Martin-Harvey |
Occupation | Film actor |
Years active | 1925–1954 |
As well as his theatre work, he had a number of small roles in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s such as Dark Journey (1937), The Drum (1938) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). Larger parts came his way towards the late forties and early fifties including The Monkey's Paw (1948), The Third Visitor (1951) and The Long Memory (1952). In 1949 he took on his only lead role, that of real life criminal Charles Peace in The Case of Charles Peace.[5]
He married children's book illustrator Hester Margetson in 1927 under the name Jack Seaforth Elton Martin-Harvey.[6] Together they formed a small ballet touring company, the Martin-Harvey Miniature Ballet. In the 1950s he teamed with the composer Margaret More to form the Hans Andersen Players, performing selected works from the work of Hans Christian Andersen. Besides dance his other artistic interests included poetry, painting and pottery.
Selected filmography
- The Robber Symphony (1936)
- The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937)
- The Drum (1938)
- Let the People Sing (1942)
- Bedelia (1946)
- The Monkey's Paw (1948)
- The Case of Charles Peace (1949)
- Torment (1950)
- The Third Visitor (1951)
- Judgment Deferred (1952)
- The Long Memory (1952)
References
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(help) - "Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- "Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 | findmypast.co.uk". www.findmypast.co.uk.
- "Michael Martin-Harvey". Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). "The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
- "Search Results for England-and-wales-marriages-1837-2008 | findmypast.co.uk". www.findmypast.co.uk.