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Michael Billington
Actor, Additional Credits
Born December 24, 1941Died June 3, 2005 (63 years)
Michael Hornby Billington was one of Britain’s best-loved film and television actors, probably best known for his role as Colonel Paul Foster in the popular 1970s science fiction series UFO, but also starred in long-running historical drama The Onedin Line and mini-series Edward VII. He screen-tested a record five times for the role of James Bond, but ultimately played the smooth Soviet agent in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Filmography
| 2002 | Best Ever Bond · as Sergei Barsov (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Maigret (1992) (TV Series) |
| 1986 | The Collectors (TV Series) · as Tom Gibbons |
| 1985 | KGB: The Secret War · as Peter Hubbard |
| 1984 | Antony and Cleopatra · as Ventidius |
| 1983 | Flicks · as Deputy Inspector (segment 'whodunit') |
| 1983 | Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) · as King Leopardi |
| 1982 | Gavilan (TV Series) · as Roger Morgan |
| 1982 | The Quest (TV Series) · as Count Louis Dardinay |
| 1981 | The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) · as Talenikov |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) · as Lever |
| 1980 | Invasion: UFO · as Col. Paul Foster |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) |
| 1978 | Spearhead (TV Series) · as Colour Sgt. Jackson |
| 1977 | The Professionals (TV Series) · as John Coogan |
| 1977 | The Spy Who Loved Me · as Sergei Barsov |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Henri Ducette |
| 1976 | The Quest (1976) (TV Series) |
| 1975 | Edward the Seventh (TV Series) · as Czar Nicholas Ii |
| 1974 | UFO: Take Them Alive · as Colonel Paul Foster |
| 1974 | UFO: Annihilate S.H.A.D.O. Kill Straker... Stop · as Col. Paul Foster |
| 1973 | UFO: Red Alarm... Attack on the Earth! · as Coronel Paul Foster |
| 1972 | War & Peace (1972) (TV Series) |
| 1971 | The Onedin Line (TV Series) · as Daniel Fogarty |
| 1971 | UFO: Destroy Moonbase · as Colonel Paul Foster |
| 1970 | UFO (TV Series) · as Col. Paul Foster |
| 1969 | Alfred the Great · as Offa |
| 1969 | Hadleigh (TV Series) · as Freddie Hepton |
| 1967 | The Prisoner (1967) (TV Series) · as Woodland Man |
| 1965 | Dream A40 · as Young Man |