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# Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. These games marked the first time in Olympic History that Great Britain didn't take a gold medal.

## Medallists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Bronze | David Carnegie | Skeleton | Men's single event |

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| GBR-1 | Henry Martineau Walter Birch John Dalrymple John Gee Edward Hall | Five-man | 1:40.6 | 4 | 1:45.7 | 15 | 3:26.3 | 10 |
| GBR-2 | George Pim Guy Tracey David Griffith Frederick Browning Thomas Warner | Five-man | 1:41.7 | 5 | 1:44.5 | 10 | 3:26.2 | 9 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | Event | CF | FS | Places | Points | Final rank |
| Ian Bowhill | Men's singles | 15 | 14 | 101 | 1202.25 | 14 |
| Jack Page | Men's singles | 8 | 11 | 62 | 1424.00 | 9 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | CF | FS | Places | Points | Final rank |
| Kathleen Shaw | Women's singles | 11 | 19 | 95 | 1900.00 | 14 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | Points | Score | Final rank |
| Kathleen Lovett Proctor Burman | 110.5 | 57.75 | 13 |
| Ethel Muckelt Jack Page | 61.5 | 79.00 | 7 |

## Ice hockey
### Group A

The top team (highlighted) advanced to the medal round.
| Team | GP | W | L | GF | GA |
| Great Britain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 |
| France | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| Belgium | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Hungary | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| February 11 | Great Britain | 7–3 (3–1,2–0,2–2) | Belgium |
| February 12 | France | 3–2 (0–1,3–1,0–0) | Great Britain |
| February 15 | Great Britain | 1–0 (1–0,0–0,0–0) | Hungary |

### Medal round

The top teams from each of the three groups, plus Canada, which had received a bye into the medal round, played a 3-game round-robin to determine the medal winners.
| Team | GP | W | L | GF | GA |
| Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| Sweden | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 |
| Great Britain (4th) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| February 17 | Switzerland | 4:0 (0:0,2:0,2:0) | Great Britain |
| February 18 | Canada | 14:0 (6:0,4:0,4:0) | Great Britain |
| February 19 | Sweden | 3:1 (2:1,0:0,1:0) | Great Britain |
| 4th | Great Britain (GBR) |
| | Wilbert Brown Colin Carruthers Eric Carruthers Ross Cuthbert Bernard Fawcett Harold Greenwood Frederick Melland John Rogers Blaine Sexton William Speechly Victor Tait Charles Wyld |

## Skeleton

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| John, Earl of Northesk | 1:02.7 | 4 | 1:01.0 | 3 | 1:01.4 | 2 | 3:05.1 | |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Cyril Horn | 54.9 | 32 |
| 500 m | Leonard Stewart | 54.8 | 31 |
| 500 m | Fred Dix | 53.4 | 30 |
| 1500 m | Fred Dix | 2:49.6 | 28 |
| 1500 m | Leonard Stewart | 2:48.9 | 27 |
| 1500 m | Cyril Horn | 2:40.0 | 24 |
| 5000 m | Fred Dix | 10:55.6 | 32 |
| 5000 m | Leonard Stewart | 10:40.0 | 31 |
| 5000 m | Cyril Horn | 9:45.0 | 23 |
# Granny Kempock Stone

The megalithic Kempock Stone, popularly known as Granny Kempock (perhaps because of its resemblance to an old woman), stands on a cliff behind Kempock Street, the main shopping street in Gourock, Scotland. The stone, or menhir, is grey mica schist and of indeterminate origin, but it has been suggested that it is an old altar to the pagan god Baal, or a memorial to an ancient battle. Supposedly there is a superstition that for sailors going on a long voyage or a couple about to be married, walking seven times around the stone would ensure good fortune. A flight of steps winds up to the stone from Kempock Street below.
There is also an association with witchcraft. In 1662 Marie Lamont and a group of other local women were burned to death in the local area after it was alleged that she and her coven had danced around the stone on the sabbath, with the intention of cursing and sinking shipping that passed through the Clyde by casting the long-stone into the sea.
A decorative iron archway sits above the passageway leading up to the stone.
A number of markings exist on the stone. Some of these appear to be 17th- to 19th-century graffiti and most are obviously initials. Alongside some of these initials are some as yet unexplained symbols or markings which resemble modern-day navigation marks. These may be mason's marks but it is unclear why someone would claim artistry on an irregularly shaped piece of stone with no apparent working, unless of course it originally formed part of a larger structure, perhaps nearby Gourock Castle. There is also a 2 cm (¾") hole at the bottom of the stone. It is not known if this hole goes all the way through the stone, but if it does, this could point to the stone having been moved at some point or used as perhaps an anchor stone or counterweight. Given the stone's current location it has been suggested that the stone's original location may have been elsewhere.
A 1987 children's fantasy TV series Shadow of the Stone written by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska dramatises the witchcraft element. The series stars Shirley Henderson in the role of a young girl, who has some kind of spiritual connection with Marie Lamont, and Alan Cumming as her boyfriend. Scenes were filmed in and around Gourock.
In "Notes about Gourock", published 1880, Reverend D. Macrae writes:
   "A Bronze Age standing stone dating from about 2000bc.
   This is the famous 'Lang Stane' of Gourock, more familiarly spoken of as 'Granny Kempock'... It is supposed that the Kempock Stone marks the site in Druid times of an altar to Baal...
   However that may be, The Kempock Stane was for many centuries an object of superstitious awe and reverence... Marriages in the District were not regarded as lucky unless the wedded pair passed round the 'lang stane', and obtained in this way Granny Kempock's blessing...
   It was chiefly in connection with the winds and sea that the Kempock Stane was regarded with superstitious dread... sailors and fishermen were we... to take a basketful of sand from the shore and walk seven times round Granny Kempock, chanting a weird song to insure for themselves a safe and prosperous voyage."
# Granny Liu

Granny Liu (Chinese: 劉姥姥; pinyin: Liú Lǎolāo) is a character in the 18th century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She is an elderly country rustic and a distant relative of Lady Wang through "joining families" and marriage (i.e. they are not related by blood).
Granny Liu's son-in-law's grandfather was adopted by Lady Wang's father, hence the Jia clan became related to her son-in-law's family. Granny Liu was entrusted with the task of calling on Lady Wang by her son-in-law Gou'er.
Granny Liu visits the Rongguo Mansion on two occasions during the novel with her young grandson Ban'er. Each time, they provide a sharp contrast to the Jia family members. Nevertheless, she is respected by everyone for her age, hale physique and forthright nature, providing much comic relief, even for the Dowager. Each time, she also takes home many valuable gifts of clothing, money, food, family remedies, and livestock. In Cheng-Gao ending of the novel, Granny Liu visits Wang Xifeng before she dies and saves Qiaojie from concubinage.
The expression roughly translating to "Granny Liu visits the Grand View Gardens" (simplified Chinese: 刘姥姥进大观园; traditional Chinese: 劉姥姥進大觀園; pinyin: Liú lǎolao jìn Dàguānyuán) refers to this character, who visits the noble family who plays host to her, but which also makes fun of her openly for her simplicity (Granny Liu is, however, grateful for their generosity.) The expression is used in modern Chinese to describe someone, usually simple and unsophisticated, who is overwhelmed by new experiences and luxurious surroundings.
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# Sport climbing at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's boulder & lead

The men's boulder & lead competition of the sport climbing events at the 2023 Pan American Games was held from October 21 to 23 at the Cerrillos Park Climbing Walls in Santiago, Chile.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| October 21, 2023 | 10:00 | Semifinals - Boulder Stage |
| October 21, 2023 | 13:00 | Semifinals - Lead Stage |
| October 23, 2023 | 18:05 | Finals - Boulder Stage |
| October 23, 2023 | 20:12 | Finals - Lead Stage |

## Results
### Semifinals

The highest eight scores advance to the finals.
| Rank | Climber | Nation | Boulder | Boulder | Boulder | Boulder | Boulder | Lead | Total |
| Rank | Climber | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Lead | Total |
| 1 | Jesse Grupper | United States | 24.9 | 24.9 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 99.8 | 92.1 | 191.9 |
| 2 | Sean Bailey | United States | 10.0 | 24.7 | 24.5 | 25.0 | 84.2 | 80 | 164.2 |
| 3 | Sean McColl | Canada | 9.9 | 24.9 | 24.9 | 25.0 | 84.7 | 68.1 | 152.8 |
| 4 | Oscar Baudrand | Canada | 25.0 | 24.9 | 24.7 | 25.0 | 99.6 | 48.1 | 147.7 |
| 5 | Zachary Galla | United States | 24.9 | 24.9 | 4.9 | 25.0 | 79.7 | 54.1 | 133.8 |
| 6 | Victor Baudrand | Canada | 25.0 | 24.8 | 4.8 | 25.0 | 79.6 | 54.1 | 133.7 |
| 7 | Benjamín Vargas | Chile | 10.0 | 24.8 | 24.4 | 24.9 | 84.1 | 36.1 | 120.2 |
| 8 | Thor Villegas | Mexico | 9.8 | 24.9 | 9.7 | 25.0 | 69.4 | 45.1 | 114.5 |
| 9 | Joaquín Urrutia | Chile | 9.6 | 24.8 | 4.9 | 25.0 | 64.3 | 48 | 112.3 |
| 10 | Felipe Ho | Brazil | 9.8 | 24.8 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 64.6 | 45.1 | 109.7 |
| 11 | Jair Moreno | Mexico | 5.0 | 24.6 | 5.0 | 24.7 | 59.3 | 48.1 | 107.4 |
| 12 | Diego Lequerica | Peru | 9.7 | 25.0 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 64.7 | 36 | 100.7 |
| 13 | Benjamín Ayala | Chile | 9.9 | 24.9 | 4.8 | 25.0 | 64.6 | 36.1 | 100.7 |
| 14 | Lautaro Soria | Argentina | 9.8 | 24.8 | 4.9 | 24.9 | 64.4 | 33.1 | 97.5 |
| 15 | Mateus Bellotto | Brazil | 9.9 | 9.9 | 9.3 | 25.0 | 54.1 | 36.1 | 90.2 |
| 16 | Rodrigo Hanada | Brazil | 10.0 | 24.6 | 4.9 | 10.0 | 49.5 | 33.1 | 82.6 |
| 17 | Héctor López | Mexico | 5.0 | 9.7 | 4.9 | 25.0 | 44.6 | 30.1 | 74.7 |
| 18 | Alejo Suter | Argentina | 9.8 | 5.0 | 0 | 25.0 | 39.8 | 33 | 72.8 |
| 19 | Gianstefano Di Nino | Venezuela | 5.0 | 24.5 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 48.9 | 22.1 | 71 |
| 20 | Luis Castellanos | Venezuela | 9.7 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 9.9 | 29.5 | 14.1 | 43.6 |

### Final

| Rank | Climber | Nation | Boulder | Boulder | Boulder | Boulder | Boulder | Lead | Total |
| Rank | Climber | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Lead | Total |
| | Jesse Grupper | United States | 9.7 | 25.0 | 24.7 | 10.0 | 69.4 | 92.1 | 161.5 |
| | Sean Bailey | United States | 24.6 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 9.9 | 84.5 | 57.1 | 141.5 |
| | Zachary Galla | United States | 24.7 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 9.7 | 84.4 | 54.1 | 138.5 |
| 4 | Sean McColl | Canada | 24.8 | 25.0 | 24.7 | 10.0 | 84.5 | 48.1 | 132.6 |
| 5 | Oscar Baudrand | Canada | 24.8 | 9.9 | 24.7 | 9.9 | 69.3 | 18.1 | 87.4 |
| 6 | Victor Baudrand | Canada | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 35.0 | 48.1 | 83.1 |
| 7 | Benjamín Vargas | Chile | 10.0 | 9.9 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 39.9 | 18.1 | 58.0 |
| 8 | Thor Villegas | Mexico | 10.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 35.0 | 18.1 | 53.1 |
# Grant Esterhuizen

Grant Esterhuizen (born 28 April 1976) was a South African former rugby union player.

## Playing career

Esterhuizen matriculated at Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool and represented Northern Transvaal at the annual Craven Week tournaments in 1993 and 1994. He made his senior provincial debut for the Blue Bulls in 1996.
Esterhuizen made his test match debut for the Springboks as a substitute against New Zealand at Jade Stadium, Christchurch in 2000 and played in seven test matches during the 2000 rugby season. In 2003, he represented South Africa at sevens.

### Test history

| No. | Opponents | Results (SA 1st) | Position | Dates | Venue |
| 1. | New Zealand | 12–25 | Replacement | 22 Jul 2000 | Jade Stadium, Christchurch |
| 2. | New Zealand | 46–40 | Centre | 19 Aug 2000 | Ellis Park, Johannesburg |
| 3. | Australia | 18–19 | Centre | 26 Aug 2000 | Kings Park, Durban |
| 4. | Argentina | 37–33 | Centre | 12 Nov 2000 | River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires |
| 5. | Ireland | 28–18 | Centre | 19 Nov 2000 | Lansdowne Road, Dublin |
| 6. | Wales | 23–13 | Replacement | 26 Nov 2000 | Millennium Stadium, Cardiff |
| 7. | England | 17–25 | Replacement | 2 Dec 2000 | Twickenham, London |
# Greatest

Greatest may refer to:
* Greatest!, a 1959 album by Johnny Cash
* Bee Gees Greatest, a 1979 album by Bee Gees
* Greatest (The Go-Go's album), 1990
* Greatest (Duran Duran album), 1998
* Greatest (Raspberries album), 2005
* Greatest (song), a song by Eminem
* "Greatest", a song by NEFFEX
* Greatist, a fitness and health website
# Yupi (disambiguation)

Yupi may refer to:
* Yupi, an Internet portal founded in 1997
* Yupi (confectioner), an Indonesian gummy lolly manufacturer
* Yupi Tartars, an old name for the Nanai people and related ethnic groups of the Amur River basin
# Macrina Bakery

Macrina Bakery is a small chain of bakeries in the Seattle metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Washington.

## Description

Macrina Bakery is a bakery with multiple locations in the Seattle metropolitan area. Since 2016, the business has been headquartered in Kent, Washington. In Seattle, there are locations in Belltown, Queen Anne, and SoDo.
In addition to breads and pastries (such as almond croissants, dark-chocolate brownies, ginger cookies, and Nutella brioche), the bakery has served cake, pasta, pies, quiches, salads, and sandwiches. Macrina began serving bagels in 2020.
Aimee Rizzo of The Infatuation has described the SoDo location as "a nice space that's perfect for getting some work done".

## History

Owner Leslie Mackie founded Macrina Bakery in Belltown in 1993. Scott France is the chief executive officer of Macrina Bakery, as of 2018.
Macrina's third location opened in 2008. In 2016, the company's headquarters were relocated from SoDo to Kent. Macrina employed approximately 175 people at the time. A fifth location opened in 2018. In 2023, the business confirmed plans to open a sixth location in Maple Leaf in June.
The bakery supplied Amazon Go, as of 2018, and Amazon Fresh, as of 2021. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Macrina responded to restrictions "by clearing away chairs and transforming into a coffee-to-go business". In 2022, the business sold shortbread cookies decorated with the flag of Ukraine for a limited time.

## Reception

Fodor's has said Macrina Bakery has "become a true Belltown institution". In 2014, Caitlin Morton included the business in Condé Nast Traveler's list of 13 "destination" bakeries and recommended the caramel turtle brownies. In 2021, Amanda Ahn of The Daily of the University of Washington wrote, "Among more than 20 pastries, the rocket muffin, lemon lavender coffeecake, citrus oat scone and cinnamon monkey bread are too good for words."
# Michael Healy (politician)

Michael Patrick Thomas Healy (born 3 August 1964) is an Australian politician. He has been the Labor member for Cairns in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2017.
# Michael Aislabie Denham

Michael Aislabie Denham (1801 – 10 September 1859) was an English merchant and collector of folklore.

## Life

A native of Gainford, County Durham, Denham was in business at Kingston-upon-Hull in the early part of his life. Ultimately he settled as a general merchant at Piercebridge, near Gainford, where he died on 10 September 1859.

## Works

Denham collected local lore. His works were:
* A Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings relating to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural Pursuits, gathered chiefly from oral tradition, London, 1846, printed by the Percy Society.
* The Slogans, and War and Gathering Cries of the North of England, 1850, and with additions, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1851.
* A Collection of Bishoprick Rhymes, Proverbs, and Sayings, to which he afterwards added four tracts of the same kind, completing the last about 1858.
* Cumberland Rhymes, Proverbs, and Sayings, in four parts, the last of which appeared in 1854.
* A similar work relating to Westmorland, in two parts, 1858.
* Roman Imperial Gold Coin, a description of a coin of the Emperor Maximus [Durham (?) 1856], under the pseudonym "Archæus".
* Folklore of the North, in six parts, the last appearing in 1856.
* Folklore, or a Collection of Local Rhymes, Proverbs, Sayings, Prophecies, Slogans, &c., relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Berwick-on-Tweed; Richmond, Yorkshire, 1858. Limited to fifty copies.
* Minor Tracts on Folklore, to the number of twenty, starting about 1849 and ending about 1854.
* A Classified Catalogue of the Antiquarian Tomes, Tracts, and Trifles, referring to the works Denham had edited himself, 1859.
# Joshua Weiner

Joshua Weiner (born 1963 Boston) is an American poet.

## Life

He graduated from Northwestern University, and earned his PhD in English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as the writing coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University.
He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, the novelist Sarah Blake, and two sons, and teaches literature and poetry workshops at University of Maryland, College Park, where he is Professor of English. He is also the poetry editor of Tikkun magazine.
His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Nation, the American Scholar, New York Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, B O D Y, Yale Review, Slate, The New Republic, and other journals.

## Awards

* 2000 Witter Bynner Fellowship
* 2002 Whiting Award
* 2003 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
* 2012-2013 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
* 2014 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

## Works

* "Found Letter", Poetry Foundation
* "Shame", Poetry, January 2006
* "The Dog State", Boston Review
* "WEEGEE: CONEY ISLAND BEACH AFTER MIDNIGHT; TRAMPOLINE; EPITAPH; ART PEPPER; POSTCARD TO THOM". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 8 (3). Summer 2007.
* "The Bed". Threepenny Review. Fall 2004.
* The World's Room. University of Chicago Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-226-88576-6.
* From the Book of Giants. University of Chicago Press. 15 April 2010. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-0-226-89051-7.
* The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish. University of Chicago Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-01701-3. Joshua Weiner.

### Essays

* "Canon Fodder: A highly personal list", Poetry Foundation
* History, memory, and poetics in Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend. University of California, Berkeley. 1988.
* Mina Loy among the moderns. University of California, Berkeley. 1998.

### Editor

* Joshua Weiner, ed. (2009). At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-89043-2.

## Review

   I've always been impressed by Joshua Weiner's formal intelligence and his sure knowledge of how to make a poem. He's learned as much from Mina Loy, Robert Duncan, and Tom McGrath as he has from Thom Gunn, Thomas Hardy, and George Herbert. His poems are open to many different kinds of aesthetic approaches, including those of jazz and the blues. Like the modernists, he's embraced the past, but unlike some of them, he's alert to the formal possibilities lurking in popular culture. Among the squares, he is hip; among the hip, he is wary. So watch out. His poems are tonal land mines.
# Kimmeter Park Green

Kimmeter Park Green was a football ground in Annan, Scotland. It was the home ground of Solway Star from 1921 until 1939, and hosted Scottish Football League matches between 1923 and 1926.

## History

Solway Star moved to Kimmeter Park Green in 1921 from their Summergate Park ground, which they had played at for only a year. The facilities at the new ground initially included a small stand on the western side of the pitch, as well as some changing rooms, and in 1923 a new 300-capacity grandstand was built. In the same year the club were elected into the new Third Division of the Scottish Football League, and the first SFL match at Kimmeter Park Green was played on 25 August 1923, a 2–1 win over Peebles Rovers. The club's highest recorded league attendance at the ground was 3,000, set for a match against Queen of the South on 11 October 1924; the match ending in a 1–1 draw.
Division Three was disbanded at the end of the 1925–26 season, resulting in Solway Star leaving the league. The final SFL match at the ground was played on 3 April 1926, a 3–2 defeat by Johnstone.
The club ceased playing at the ground in 1939, moving to Mafeking Park after World War II. The site of Kimmeter Park Green was returned to agricultural use; the grandstand was partially demolished and the remainder of the structure used as a cowshed.
# Joseph Richards

Joseph Richards may refer to:
* Joseph Richards (rugby) (1868–?), rugby union footballer of the 1890s
* Joseph Richards (politician), representative to the Massachusetts Great and General Court
* Sir Joseph Richards, 3rd baronet (died 1738) of the Richards baronets
* Joseph John Richards (1878–1956), composer, conductor and music educator
* J. Havens Richards (1851–1923), Roman Catholic priest
* Joseph Loscombe Richards (1798–1854), Oxford college head
# Michel Gugenheim

Michel Gugenheim is the Chief Rabbi of Paris. He also assumed the position of interim Chief Rabbi of France in 2013 after the resignation of Gilles Bernheim, the previous Chief Rabbi of France and remained in that position until the election of Rabbi Haim Korsia.
L'Express publicized a secret video recording alleging Gugenheim's participation extorting $120,000 from a woman in exchange for a get document. Gugenheim denies the allegations.
On 13 July 2014 Gugenheim was in Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel when it came under attack from pro-Palestinian and was rescued alongside other worshippers.
# Michael Irving

Michael Irving is an English stage and screen actor born on October, 19 1943 in Ipswich, Suffolk.
In 1972 he was one of the co-founders of the Half Moon Theatre with Maurice Colbourne and Guy Sprung. It became the Half Moon Young People's Theatre in 1990, a specialist theatre for young people. He performed in many productions there, including In the Jungle of the Cities, Will Wat, If Not, What Will?, Sawdust Caesar, Silver Tassie, Alkestis, The Mother and Female Transport. He directed and performed in Heroes of the Iceberg Hotel and Dan Dare (which he also wrote). In 1977 he played the Dame in Dick Whittington, or the City of Fear. In 2016 Michael became a patron of Half Moon Theatre (previously called Half Moon Young People's Theatre). This coincided with the launch of Stages of Half Moon, a digital archive of the theatre's history.
In the theatre, his work includes performance in the play "Apart from George" and "Rough Music" in London. He appeared in the film "Personal Services" (1987). He played a headmaster in an episode of The Bill. His played the father of Robert Pattinson's character in How To Be.
From 1971 to 1981 Michael was married to Veronica Hamel.