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Michael Angelis
Born	Friday, January 18, 1952 (1952-01-18) (age 55) Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Spouse(s)	Helen Worth

Michael Angelis (born January 18, 1952 in Liverpool, England) is a British actor. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government  - Type Metropolitan borough, City  - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area  - Borough & City 43. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... Helen Worth, in a still from an interview done in 2000. ... is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Location within England Coordinates: , Sovereign state United Kingdom Constituent country England Region North West England Ceremonial county Historic county Merseyside Lancashire Admin HQ Liverpool City Centre Founded 1207 City Status 1880 Government  - Type Metropolitan borough, City  - Governing body Liverpool City Council Area  - Borough & City 43. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Angelis is best known for narrating the British Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends series from 1991 onwards. He narrated six American Thomas episodes in 2003, after the previous narrator Alec Baldwin left, but was soon replaced by Michael Brandon. Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, also known as Thomas the Tank Engine) is a British childrens television series which was first broadcast in 1984. ... Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... Michael Brandon is an actor who was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 20, 1945 as Michael Feldman. He starred in the TV series Dempsey & Makepeace and Dinotopia, the 1978 film FM and the plays Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie, and Jerry Springer - The Opera. ...

Michael was also one of the stars of the famous 1982 BBC drama serial Boys from the Blackstuff and its comedies such as Luv and The Liver Birds in which he appeared from seasons 5-9. He read John Peel's autobiography Margrave of the Marshes on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... The Liver Birds, co-written by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor, was the distaff answer to the popular Geordie series, The Likely Lads. ... “Peel Sessions” redirects here. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

He has been the longtime companion of actress Helen Worth, whom he later married. Helen Worth, in a still from an interview done in 2000. ...

In 2006 Michael starred in the movie Fated, set in his home town of Liverpool.

In 2007, he starred in an episode of Midsomer Murders. Midsomer Murders is a popular British television series about murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer. ...

Trivia

• Another famous Liverpudlian who narrated Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends was Ringo Starr.
• Another narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is Michael Brandon (mentioned above).
• He also played Tommy the Stradivarius forger in Lovejoy.

Thomas & Friends (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, also known as Thomas the Tank Engine) is a British childrens television series which was first broadcast in 1984. ... Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English musician, singer and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. ...

External links

• Michael Angelis at the Internet Movie Database