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Michael Gothard's career: overview
Title: Herostratus
Medium: Film
Genre: Experimental drama
Filmed: 1964
Location: London
First shown: June 1967
Character: Max, a young poet
Role: Starring role. Max sells the chance to film his suicide to an advertising executive.
Character’s fate (highlight to read): Max survives, traumatised by having accidentally caused someone else’s ( Read more... ) -
Career Retrospective by Thomas Jahnsen
Thomas Jahnsen has produced this wonderful look at Michael Gothard's film career.
The Actor in the Machine (Career Retrospective)
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The Machine Stops: 50th Anniversary review
On 6 October 2016, the 50th Anniversary of the first broadcast of “The Machine Stops”, reviewer Martin Ruddock published a review on the “We Are Cult” website: “Saviour machine: ‘Out Of The Unknown - The Machine Stops’ revisited.”He described it as, “one of the most peculiar pieces of television ever to go out under the BBC’s banner … a bleak, ( Read more... ) -
“Scream and Scream Again” commentary by Tim Sullivan and David Del Valle
In October 2015, a new Blu-ray edition of “Scream and Scream Again”, including a commentary by film director Tim Sullivan, and film historian David Del Valle, was released.
Unfortunately, this commentary has little new to offer about Michael Gothard, who played the vampire composite, Keith, but the relevant parts are transcribed below.Tim ( Read more... ) -
The Machine Stops: review
"The Machine Stops" appeared on a BFI DVD release featuring all extant episodes of "Out of the Unknown ( Read more... ) -
Additions to this life history
Please add anything you know, links to reviews, photos or personal memories, in a comment, and let me know whether and how you wish to be credited.
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Links to Michael's work available on Youtube
Up the Junction: Michael Gothard’s scenes as Terry
Pub scene 1
Argument, party and Terry’s last ride
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Michael Gothard's brief scene
Department S: Les Fleurs du Mal
Extracts, including Michael Gothard's scenes as Weber
When the Spirit Moves You
Extracts, including Michael Gothard's scenes as Perrin
Part 1
Part 2
Games People Play
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18 November 2011: Planting Michael's tree
We had been looking forward to planting the tree for Michael ever since last year, when we had joined Oliver Tobias in dedicating the Wellingtonia to him.
The account of that event is here.
It was cloudy when we set out, but turned into a lovely sunny day by the time we arrived, and the park was beautiful, still in its autumn colours.
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29 August 2010: Dedicating a tree to Michael Gothard
This is an account of the visit to Woodchester National Trust Park, where the early episodes of “Arthur of the Britons” were filmed in Summer 1972 ( Read more... )
