Born in Leicester in 1948, Michael Kitchen trained on the British stage before moving into film with quietly authoritative supporting turns in Out of Africa (1985), GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999), where he played MI6 chief of staff Bill Tanner. From 2002 he anchored the ITV series Foyle's War as the watchful, morally exacting wartime detective across nearly two decades of episodes. He works largely by restraint, choosing stillness over emphasis, and became one of British television's most trusted lead actors of his generation. Read more