Michael Caridia (born 2 August 1941) is a British former
child actor.
His prominent roles include Sir Reginald, an obnoxious boy, in the
Norman Wisdom vehicle ''
Up in the World'' and Hugo Wendt in the 1956 horror-comedy ''
The Gamma People''. In a 1960 dramatisation of the trial of
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
he played Edward Shelley, an alleged
rent boy who acted as a prosecution witness. He has not had any film or TV appearances since 1961. In 1970 he married Jennifer North in
Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames. It had an estimated population of 70,374 and forms part of the border with southern Bu ...
, Berkshire, England.
Filmography
*''Pieces of Eight'', 1956 BBC TV children's film, aged 11. "The Reluctant Bride" 1955 Played 'Tony' as a child actor.
References
External links
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1941 births
Living people
English male film actors
English male child actors
People from Swaffham
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