Michael Beecher (actor)

{{Short description|Australian actor}}

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| name = Michael Beecher

| birth_name = Michael Becher

| birth_date = 20 November 1939

| birth_place = Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|03|04|1939|11|20|df=yes}}death notice in the Sydney Morning Herald 9 March 1993

| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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| occupation = Actor, model

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Michael Beecher (20 November 1939 – 4 March 1993) was an Australian-based model and actor. He was the son of Rear Admiral Otto Humphrey Becher and Valerie Chisholme Baird.

Beecher had originally wanted to train and work as a diplomat.

His highest-profile role was as debonair hospital superintendent Dr. Brian Denham in Australian soap opera The Young Doctors, a role he played from the programme's inception in 1976 until leaving the series (shortly before its demise) in 1982. Prior to The Young Doctors he had worked as a photographic model.

Filmography

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Year

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1975ParadiseFaulknerTV movie
1978Barnaby and MeFrench ReporterTV movie
1982Runaway IslandTV movie

=Television=

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Year

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1976Silent NumberTV series
1976-82The Young DoctorsDr. Brian DenhamTV series
1977The OutsidersTV series
1977BlueyCourierTV series, 1 episode
1986The Haunted SchoolHenry BlackburnTV miniseries
1987The Flying DoctorsTV series

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