Michael Darbyshire
Photo: 1939 Malvern Festival programme
Born(1917-10-15)15 October 1917
Died20 November 1979(1979-11-20) (aged 62)
Windsor, Berkshire, England

Michael Darbyshire (15 October 1917 – 20 November 1979) was an English actor of stage and screen.[1][2] He is perhaps best known for his role as Hubert Davenport, the Victorian ghost, in the long running BBC TV children's comedy series Rentaghost.[2][3]

He also played one of the eccentric inventors in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.[4] On stage, he appeared in the original West End cast of the musical Pickwick in 1963, its Broadway transfer in 1965, and a BBC TV adaptation in 1969.[5][1][6]

He was a member of the Players Theatre Company based in London in Villiers Street, appearing regularly and also on many occasions on the BBC TV series The Good Old Days.[7][8][9]

Michael Darbyshire died in 1979, during the interval of the first performance of a production of the Ray Cooney farce, Chase Me Comrade, at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, aged 62.[1][10]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1949Vengeance Is MinePoliceman
1956Charley MoonFootmanUncredited
1963The Gentle TerrorTicket clerk
1968Chitty Chitty Bang BangInventor
1969Lock Up Your DaughtersLa Verole
1971She'll Follow You AnywhereDoctor
1976The Slipper and the RoseDancer

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Michael Darbyshire – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  2. 1 2 "Michael Darbyshire". BFI. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Rentaghost (1976-84)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  4. ↑ "Michael Darbyshire". www.aveleyman.com.
  5. ↑ "Pickwick - 1963 Original London Cast" – via castalbums.org.
  6. ↑ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 26 December 1969.
  7. ↑ "Twenty Minutes South [excerpt] · British Universities Film & Video Council". bufvc.ac.uk.
  8. ↑ "Michael Darbyshire | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  9. ↑ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 12 June 1967.
  10. ↑ Wokingham Times 22nd November 1979


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