Michael Darbyshire

Michael Darbyshire (15 October 1917 – 20 November 1979) was an English actor of stage and screen. 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.

He also played one of the eccentric inventors in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 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.

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.

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.

Filmography

References

External links

• Michael Darbyshire at IMDb
• Michael Darbyshire at the Internet Broadway Database

1. Darbyshire
2. Rentaghost
3. Jimmy Clitheroe
4. 1979 in film
5. 1979 in British television
6. Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 film)
7. She'll Follow You Anywhere
8. Living in a Box
9. Canada at the 2023 Pan American Games
10. Murder at the Vicarage (play)
11. Ace of Clubs (musical)
12. Ralph Fiennes
13. Thomas Darbyshire
14. Pickwick (film)
15. The Gentle Terror
16. Nurse Ratched
17. Coup 53
18. Death of Azaria Chamberlain
19. Hercules
20. John Benitez