Michael Brandon
Michael Brandon (born April 20, 1945) is an American actor who resides in the United Kingdom and United States.
Brandon was born Michael Feldman in Brooklyn, New York to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, the son of Miriam (née Tumen) and Sol Feldman. At age nine, he and his family moved to Valley Stream, New York where he attended Memorial Ju
nior 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 UK, Brandon has worked in TV on such shows as The Bill, Trial and Retribution, and Dead Man Weds. In 2004, he began narrating the American version of 
Thomas and Friends. In February 2008 he began his talk radio show on City Talk, a new local radio station in Liverpool. In 2008 he appeared in the Series 4 finale of the BBC’s Doctor Who, as General Sanchez, a UNIT officer. Also in 2008 he appeared in the Bones (TV series), as Clive Frampton, an american millionare.
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.
