Librarian Note: There are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Michael Maloney is an English actor.
He was down to the last two for the part of Withnail in Withnail & I with Richard E. Grant but he told his agent he did not want the part because he could not relate to the character properly.
He is the only actor to have appeared in both Franco Zeffirelli s Hamlet and Kenneth Branagh s Hamlet . He played Rosencrantz in the former and Laertes in the latter. In Branaghs theatre spoof In the Bleak Midwinter , his character Joe Harper directed an amateur version of "Hamlet" and played the title role.
In 2009, he played two British Prime Ministers: John Major in Margaret and Sir Robert Peel in The Young Victoria .
