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For the pornstar with the same name see Michael Brandon (porn star)
Michael Brandon
Born Michael Feldman
April 20, 1945 (1945-04-20) (age 63)
Brooklyn, New York U.S.
Occupation actor
Spouse(s) Glynis Barber
(1989-present, 1 child)
Lindsay Wagner
(1976-1979, divorced)

Michael Brandon (born April 20, 1945) is an American actor who resides in the United Kingdom.

Biography

Brandon was born Michael Feldman in Brooklyn, New York to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, the son of Miriam (née Tumen) and Sol Feldman.1 At age nine, he and his family moved to Valley Stream, New York where he attended Memorial Junior High and then Valley Stream Central High School.

Brandon starred in the TV series Dempsey & Makepeace and Dinotopia, the movies Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971), F.M. (1978), and A Change of Seasons (1980), and the plays Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and Jerry Springer - The Opera.

Since moving to the U.K., Brandon has worked in TV on such shows as The Bill, Trial and Retribution, and Dead Man Weds. In 2003, he began narrating the American version of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, and continued until 2008. In February 2008 he began his talk radio show on City Talk, a new local radio station in Liverpool, UK.2 In 2008 he appeared in the Series 4 finale of the BBC's Doctor Who, as General Sanchez, a UNIT officer.3

From 1976 to 1979, Brandon was married to actress Lindsay Wagner (best known as Jaime Sommers in the Bionic Woman series). He is currently married to actress Glynis Barber, with whom he co-starred in Dempsey & Makepeace, and the two have settled in the United Kingdom. In the 1970s, he dated Maureen McCormick, Marcia Brady of the American TV series The Brady Bunch.

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