Michael Preston

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Michael Preston (born 1938 in Hackney, London, England) is an international film and television actor, sometimes credited as Mike Preston.

Preston had been a boxer before switching to a singing career. He had three Top 30 hits in the UK Singles Chart, before emigrating to Australia where he performed as a nightclub singer. He then became a host on television, and then an actor. His first ongoing starring role on television in was in the long-running police drama series Homicide as Sen. Det. Bob Delaney from 1972-1973. He later appeared in the soap opera Bellbird as Fr. John Kramer on a recurring basis between 1974-1976. He later took a lead role in prison-based soap opera Punishment (1981) however this series was short-lived.

Preston also acted in films. His first feature film was Surabaya Conspiracy (1969); other film roles included playing Pappagallo in the 1981 hit Mad Max 2, arguably his best known role, and Jared-Syn in the 1983 science fiction B movie Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.

Subsequent to these performances, he had an on-going role in Hot Pursuit as Alec Shaw in 1984. He has also starred in many television movies and made guest appearances on television series including The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Alien Nation, Ellen, and Highlander as the evil Immortal named Terrence Kincaid in the season 4 episode "Reunion".