15 thoughts on “MCM: Michael Kitchen

  1. I seem to find him most attractive young and fuzzy, and Quite Mature–I can skip the middle era, personally, just based on these photos, as I have not seen the films in question. However, the Nazi photo, while not my brand of politics, looks very good to me–he should make that face all the time!

  2. That’s enough to take your breath away first thing in the morning! “Churchill’s People” was a new one on me. Now for the answer to your question . . . I lose my breath over “Mrs. Dalloway” and “The Buccaneers.” Hope you don’t mind if I point out a couple more. “A Royal Scandal”, Faraday’s Dream” (gosh was he lushious) and “Country Matters: The Four Beauties.” All of which can be found on YT. Now I know this is probably a stretch, but as John Farrow in “Brian Pern” who, Brian, was not always in costume.

  3. Thank you thank you thank you. I have so many Michael Kitchen roles that I just going to mention the highlights. First and foremost is Enchanted April where I don’t know what to drool over more – him (yes, yes, yes says my libido) or the Italian countryside (my love of all things Italian says to choose). Foyle’s War is a close second where I’m impressed by his method of solving crimes and wondered why he wasn’t given a romantic interest. Next is his appearance in the Buccaneers (the young girls and their loves were meh compared to him and Miss Testvalley.)
    I enjoyed his Barclay Cole in Out of Africa.

    1. He did get a little romance on Foyle’s War, with Stella Gonet. Just heart-to-hearts and longing looks, but I thought it was so nice.

  4. Lorna Doone was the first ever place I saw him, and whenever I see him now, his infamous line from LD pops into my head: “HANG HIM.”

    The Hanging Gale was… wow, sooooo depressing, but holy cow, do those McGann brothers look alike. I kept getting them all mixed up, even though I regularly saw one of them on Hornblower (and other things) and the other is a Call the Midwife regular.

    But Foyle will always hold the chief place in my heart. Such a fabulous character.

    1. I’m with you on “The Hanging Gale” — depressing plus getting them mixed up . . . but you had to love MK’s character. Now Foyle, there’s only that one played to perfection by MK.

      1. I kept making excuses for MK all the way through The Hanging Gale. “Aww, he’s probably not that mean… he’s just out of touch… he doesn’t understand…” and then I was like, shocked when he made choices I didn’t want him to, lol.

        1. It was hard, but I watched it twice. I have the DVDs but doubt if I’ll watch for sometime. This is my thoughts. He was caught between a rock and a hard space. He was the agent of the Lord and had to follow the rules, but it tore him up. He did though as I remember, bend them with changing the rent due date or something like that. It was the hot-head brother that wouldn’t listen and cause the pickle they ended up in. I think in the will he left his Irish domestic a tidy amount of money.

  5. Oh man, I had forgotten “Love Song” which was amazing! He played a whip-smart man, who fell in love with a whip-smart woman, and wasn’t scared of her even a bit. It was on “Masterpiece Theater” when they really did good period drama.

  6. I remember that production of The Misanthrope–with Ian Holm being tetchy and the gorgeous Cherie Lunghi as Celimene, rocking the fab 1920’s dresses. And of course, love love love Enchanted April, one of the few films that is better than the book. There’s much more magic in the film–that Kitchen’s character has poor eyesight, and therefore doesn’t fall all over Lady Caroline like every other man she meets, but rather gets to know her “on the inside”. Where’s my copy of that film? Maybe I’ll watch it again tonight!

  7. Thank you – I had no idea other ladies thought MK was charming. He stole my heart in Enchanted April.

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