Michael Brandon
Michael Brandon Trivia
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Michael Brandon's television directorial début came with the very last episode of Dempsey and Makepeace, The Guardian Angel.
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Michael Brandon had an exhibition of his photographs for the Princes' Trust in 1984.
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Michael Brandon won a Regents Scholarship to College but after three hours of pre-law decided it wasn't the life he wanted.
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Michael Brandon broke his foot getting off a yacht just before he was scheduled to appear in Casualty. The writers changed his part from a Doctor to a patient to accommodate.
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When Michael Brandon bought his ranch, Deer Spring in Northern Malibu, his then girlfriend Kim Novak gave him a white mule named Nubbin to celebrate.
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Michael Brandon's first major film role was in 1970 as Mike Vecchio in Lovers and Other Strangers although he did have a bit part in the 1969 film, Goodbye Columbus.
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Michael Brandon's first professional theatre role was as Jimmy Curry in The Rainmaker, in 1968.
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Michael Brandon lists Marlon Brando as his role model as far as acting is concerned and On the Waterfront as his favorite movie.
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Michael Brandon began a talk radio show on City Talk, a new local radio station in Liverpool, UK in February 2008.
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Michael is a good friend of author Jackie Collins and has narrated the audio book versions of two of her novels, Lovers and Players and Hollywood Wives: the New Generation.
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On November 18th 1990, Michael married actress Glynis Barber, his co-star in Dempsey and Makepeace.
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Brandon was married (1976-1979) to actress Lindsay Wagner (best known as Jaime Sommers in the original Bionic Woman series).
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Michael Brandon started narrating Thomas And Friends in 2004.
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Michael Brandon is the third US narrator for Thomas & Friends.
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In 1971, Brandon starred in his first television movie, The Impatient Heart.
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He attended the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, while living in France.
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At the age of six, Brandon moved from Brooklyn to Queens.
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In 1980, Brandon starred with Shirley MacLaine in one of his most cherished film experiences entitled Change of Seasons.
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In 1979, Brandon starred in the TV movie "Vacation In Hell", where he was trapped on a desert island with four beautiful women.
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In 1973, Brandon moved to a ranch and became the last of the Brooklyn Cowbows.
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He guest-starred in The Nanny in 1998, after being asked to do so by Fran Drescher.
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Brandon played a great bad guy in the 1997 four-hour drama, The Knock.
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In 1984, the show Dempsey and Makepeace became a phenomenon and was exported to over 75 different countries.
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His dad died on April 8, 1998 and his mom died on June 13, 1999.
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In 2004, Brandon was nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for Best Actor in a musical (Jerry Springer the Opera).
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He met Lindsay Wagner at an acting workshop in 1975.
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In 1970, Brandon moved to Venice to make his second feature, Jennifer On My Mind.
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In 1969, Michael Brandon moved back to New York, where he waited tables and drove delivery trucks until he auditioned for the play Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie?
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In 2002, Brandon starred in The Lost Battalion, where he played a World War I general.
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He narrated the full length special Calling All Engines.
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Michael Brandon is the third Thomas narrator from New York.
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In 1965, he auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and got accepted after doing the famous scene from Hamlet, and the Sakini role from Tea House of the August Moon.
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He has a son with Glynis Barber named Alexander who was born on November 21, 1992.
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He has narrated seasons 7, 8, 9, and 10 of Thomas and Friends. He also renarrated season 6.
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Brandon is the current narrator for Thomas and Friends.
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Michael: I always wanted to be a musician and I have had a lot of musician friends in my life. I used to hang out with The Eagles and when I was making a film with Carrie Snodgrass I got to go backstage with Neil Young.
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Michael: I got my first agent by picking two names off a lobby list at the William Morris Agency. I called one agent and told him the other agent said he must see me. It worked. The agent got me an audition for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?.
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(about starring in Change of Seasons) Michael: Between Anthony Hopkins and Shirley MacLaine acting was not necessary.
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