Michael Brandon
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Michael Brandon | |
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Born | Michael Feldman April 20, 1945 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Spouse(s) | Glynis Barber (1989-Present) 1 Child Lindsay Wagner (1976-1979) (divorced) |
Michael Brandon (born April 20, 1945) is an American actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Brandon was born Michael Feldman in Brooklyn, New York to a Ashkenazi jewish family. At age nine, he and his family moved to Valley Stream, New York where he attended Memorial Junior High and then Valley Stream Central High School.
[edit] Career
Brandon starred in the TV series Dempsey & Makepeace and Dinotopia, the movies Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971), F.M. (1978), and A Change of Seasons (1980), and the plays Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and Jerry Springer - The Opera.
Since moving to the UK, Brandon has worked in TV on such shows as The Bill, Trial and Retribution, and Dead Man Weds.
In 2003, he began narrating the American version of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, and continued until 2007.
In February 2008 he began his talk radio show on City Talk, a new local radio station in Liverpool, UK.[1]
[edit] Personal life
From 1976 to 1979, Brandon was married to actress Lindsay Wagner (best known as Jaime Sommers in the Bionic Woman series). He is currently married to actress Glynis Barber, with whom he co-starred in Dempsey & Makepeace, and the two have settled in the United Kingdom.