Michael Golden

Michael Golden

Born: August 15, 1913
Died: January 1, 1983
in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

Movies for Michael Golden...

The Out of Town Boys
Title: The Out of Town Boys
Character: Meikle
Released: January 2, 1979
Type: Movie
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.
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The Love-Girl and the Innocent
Title: The Love-Girl and the Innocent
Character: Cook
Released: September 16, 1973
Type: Movie
A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
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Title: Justice
Character: Chairman
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: TV
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Meikle
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Rafe
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Murder She Said
Title: Murder She Said
Character: Hillman
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
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The Cupboard
Title: The Cupboard
Character: Mr Jones
Released: December 11, 1960
Type: Movie
When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.
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During One Night
Title: During One Night
Character: Constable
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of a young U.S. Army officer, stationed in England during World War II, who is suddenly conscious of a desire to "prove" himself sexually.
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Title: Maigret
Character: Landlord
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Date with Disaster
Title: Date with Disaster
Character: Det. Insp. Matthews
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.
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The Man Without a Body
Title: The Man Without a Body
Character: Michel de Notre Dame aka Nostradamus
Released: May 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. The business man decides to steal the head of Nostradamus from the prophet's crypt.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Capt. Barker
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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Women Without Men
Title: Women Without Men
Character: Bargee
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
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Dial 999
Title: Dial 999
Character: The Chief Inspector
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
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Cross Channel
Title: Cross Channel
Character: W.L. Carrick
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous. The smugglers use him, his boat and partner, "Soapy", to carry their goods back and forth across the English. During one of the trips, "Tex" is thrown overboard, but is picked up by a French fishing boat and the fisherman take him back to their village, Porte Soliare, where he meets Jacqueline. People who appear to be quite dead early on turn out to be not dead later on, and money and swag and goods keep changing hands with such regularity that, at one point, one guy is searching for something he already has (and doesn't know it), while another guy isn't searching for it because he thinks he has it...but doesn't.
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Title: Dixon of Dock Green
Character: Sammy MacBride
Released: July 9, 1955
Type: TV
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
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Track the Man Down
Title: Track the Man Down
Character: 'Wild' Max
Released: June 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
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The Black Rider
Title: The Black Rider
Character: Rakoff
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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Blackout
Title: Blackout
Character: Inspector Johnson
Released: March 19, 1954
Type: Movie
When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood perhaps a little more caution should have been exercised. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.
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36 Hours
Title: 36 Hours
Character: The Inspector
Released: December 4, 1953
Type: Movie
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
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Operation Diplomat
Title: Operation Diplomat
Character: Harrison
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
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The Square Ring
Title: The Square Ring
Character: Warren
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
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Salute the Toff
Title: Salute the Toff
Character: Benny Kless
Released: December 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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The Gentle Gunman
Title: The Gentle Gunman
Character: Murphy
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Title: Cry, the Beloved Country
Character: Second Reporter (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1951
Type: Movie
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
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Pool of London
Title: Pool of London
Character: Customs Officer Andrews
Released: February 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: Mike Randall (Uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Another Shore
Title: Another Shore
Character: D.O. Broderick
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
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Noose
Title: Noose
Character: Moggie
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Detective Penter
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
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Hungry Hill
Title: Hungry Hill
Character: Sam Donovan
Released: January 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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Send for Paul Temple
Title: Send for Paul Temple
Character: Dixie
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
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A Canterbury Tale
Title: A Canterbury Tale
Character: Sergt. Smale
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.