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Michael N. Harbour

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Michael N. Harbour
Born
Michael Ninian Harbour

(1945-07-04)4 July 1945
Died9 April 2009(2009-04-09) (aged 63)
Resting placeSt Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick
NationalityBritish
Alma materRose Bruford College
OccupationActor
Years active1969–2009
Spouse
Lesley Sizer Grieve
(m. 1968)
ChildrenEmma Lucy
Kate Elizabeth

Michael Ninian Harbour (4 July 1945 – 9 April 2009) was a British actor.

Biography

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Michael Ninian Harbour was born in Edinburgh on 4 July 1945, a son of Harold Ernest, a veterinary surgeon, and Mary Phillipa (née McManus).

He was educated at Finchley Grammar School and St Columba's College, St Albans. He then attended the Rose Bruford drama college in Sidcup.[1]

Harbour joined the BBC Drama Repertory Company, and then became a presenter of a BBC children's education programme, Finding Out in the early 1970s. His stage debut came in April 1975 when he played Frid in Wheeler and Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, alongside stars such as Jean Simmons, Hermione Gingold and Joss Ackland. In 1998, he played the Mysterious Man/Cinderella's Father in Into the Woods at the Donmar Warehouse. He also played Firmin in the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera.

His television career prospered with appearances in many major series such as Budgie, Casualty, Heartbeat, Midsomer Murders and A Last Visitor for Mr Hugh Peter by Don Taylor, in which he co-starred with Peter Vaughan and Michael Pennington.[1]

Personal life

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Harbour met his future wife, Lesley Sizer Grieve, at St Columba’s. They married in 1968, and had two daughters: Emma Lucy, in 1968, and Kate Elizabeth in 1971.[2]

Emma married John Bowe in 1995. She is an actress and writer, and a director of Bowe Harbour Productions Ltd.[3] Kate is a voice actress.

Michael and his family lived for the last 20 years of his life on the Isle of Dogs. He was a keen gardener and spent much time at his late brother's house in Trebetherick in Cornwall, where he died on 9 April 2009, at the age of 63. He was buried at St Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick.[4]

His wife Lesley died in 2020.[2]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1985 Wild Geese II KGB Man
1998 Vigo Studio Manager
1999 Sophie's World George Berkeley
2000 Shafted! Sextronaut
2000 Pandaemonium Walsh
2006 Splinter Beard
2003 Midsomer Murders S7E4

References

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  1. ^ a b Coveney, Michael (11 June 2009). "Michael N Harbour". The Guardian.
  2. ^ a b "Lesley S Harbour". BillionGraves. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Bowe, Emma Lucy". Find and update company information service. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Lesley S Harbour". BillionGraves. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
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