A blond British actor whose handsome features were marred by his broken nose (a result of a childhood attempt to fly by leaping off the roof of a building), Michael York saw his career span some five decades, but he was most fondly remembered for a string of films in the late 1960s and 70s and his TV appearances in the mid-1970s.

Born Michael Hugh Johnson on March 27, 1942, in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England, his father was an ex-army officer turned businessman and his mother was a musician. York began his acting career as a teenager in a 1956 production of “The Yellow Jacket.” Three years