---
name: "Michael Laurence"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-laurence-145240"
fi1m_id: "michael-laurence-145240"
imdb_id: "nm0491135"
tmdb_id: 145240
wikidata_id: "Q112166907"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 April 1919"
died: "19 November 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T01:12:16.925284+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michael Laurence

## Identity

Michael Laurence

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-laurence-145240
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-laurence-145240
- **IMDb ID:** nm0491135
- **TMDB ID:** 145240
- **Wikidata ID:** Q112166907
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112166907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491135/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/145240

Actor. Born 7 April 1919 in Dublin, Ireland. Died 19 November 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 April 1919, Dublin, Ireland
- **Died:** 19 November 1988
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112166907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491135/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/145240

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Othello*](https://film.one/film/othello.md) (80)

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## Biography

Michael Laurence, born Michael Laurence Clarke, was an Irish actor. He was born on 7 April 1919 in Dublin, Ireland, and died on 19 November 1988 in New York City, New York, USA.

He played Michael Cassio in Orson Welles's 1951 film *Othello*. Other screen credits include *For Them That Trespass* (1949) and the short *Return to Glennascaul* (1952). He was the son of stained glass artist Harry Clarke.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, findagrave.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Othello* (1951), Fi1m 80, as Michael Cassio — [page](https://film.one/film/othello.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Color Me Dead* (1969), as George Reynolds
- *Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot* (1957), as John Randolph
- *Return to Glennascaul* (1952), as Sean Merriman
- *Othello* (1951), as Michael Cassio — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/othello.md)
- *For Them That Trespass* (1949), as Jim Heal
- *Piccadilly Incident* (1946), as Bill Weston

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