Life and career

Brandon was born Michael Feldman in Brooklyn, New York to Miriam (née Tumen) and Sol Feldman. At age nine, he and his family (brother Elliot and sister Debra Lynne) 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 and Makepeace and Dinotopia, the movies Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971), F.M. (1978), A Vacation In Hell (1979) 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. He also played the title role in the musical Jerry Springer: The Opera for over a year in the National Theatre and after its transfer into the West End. Brandon starred in Singin' in the Rain in the summer of 2012. In 2004, he portrayed Nobel Prize winner Arno Penzias in the BBC TV movie Hawking about physicist Stephen Hawking's early career at the University of Cambridge and was the US narrator of Thomas & Friends and Abe and the Amazing Promise of Veggie Tales. 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 television series Bones, as Roger Frampton, an American millionaire.

In the early 1970s Brandon was in a relationship with the actress Kim Novak. From 1976 to 1979, Brandon was married to actress Lindsay Wagner. He is currently married to actress Glynis Barber, with whom he co-starred in Dempsey & Makepeace, and the couple remain in the United Kingdom. Brandon and Barber have a son, Alexander Max Brandon, born November 1992.

In 2011, Brandon guest-starred in an episode of the BBC1 con drama Hustle as Marcus Wendell (series 7, episode 3).

Also in 2011 he was seen in a supporting role in the film Captain America: The First Avenger as a politician who befriends the titular character.

In September 2013 he appeared in the ITV dancing show Stepping Out with wife Glynis Barber.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
1967	The Unicorn
1969	Goodbye Columbus	Dartmouth
1970	Lovers and Other Strangers	Mike
	Jennifer on My Mind	Marcus Rottner
1971	Four Flies on Grey Velvet	Robert Tobias
1973	Heavy Traffic	Street Cat (voice)
1978	FM	Jeff Dugan
1979	Promises in the Dark	Dr. Jim Sanderson
1980	A Change of Seasons	Pete Lachapelle
1981	Rich and Famous	Max (infamous mile-high scene)
1990	Have a Nice Night	Tom Lepski
	Want to Stay Alive?
	Présumé dangereux
	Try This One for Size
1997	The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson	Jeff Littman
	Deja Vu	Alex
2001	Contaminated Man	Wyles
	Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase	Skeleton Gladiator (voice)
2005	Are You Ready For Love?	Randy Bush
	Calling All Engines!	US Narrator (voice)
2006	The Detonator	Commander Flint
2009	Me and Orson Welles	Les Tremayne
	Hero of the Rails	US Narrator (voice)
	Toscanini	Wilfrid Pelletier
	The Last Days of Lehman Brothers	Jamie Dimon
2010	Misty Island Rescue	Diesel and the US Narrator (voice)
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	Senator Brandt
	Day of the Diesels	Diesel and the US Narrator (voice)
2012	Blue Mountain Mystery
	Born of War	Harm Helder

Television

Year	Title	Role
1969	Medical Center	Guest
	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1971	The Impatient Heart by Alvin Sargeant	Frank Pescadero
1972	Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law	Guest
	Strangers in 7A	Billy
	Love American Style	Guest
1973	Love Story	Gary Stone (episode "Love Came Laughing")
	The Third Girl From the Left	David
1974	Medical Center	Dr. Lensko (guest role)
	Hitchike	Keith Miles
	The Red Badge of Courage	Jim Conklin
1975	Police Surgeon	Dr. Simon Locke (guest role)
	Queen of the Stardust Ballroom	David Asher
	Cage Without a Key	Ben Holian
	Police Story	Guest
1976	James Dean	Bill Blast
	Scott Free	Tony Scott
1977	Red Alert	Carl Wyche
1978	The Comedy Company	Paul Lester
1979	A Vacation in Hell	Alan
1980	A Perfect Match	Steve Triandos (supporting)
1982	Between Two Brothers	Lead
1983	Venice Medical	Pilot lead
	St. Elsewhere	Tony Gifford
1983-1984	Emerald Point N.A.S.	David Marquette
1984	The Seduction of Gina	Keith Sindell
1984-1986	Dempsey and Makepeace	Lt. James Dempsey (30 episodes)
1985	Deadly Messages	Michael Krasnick
1987	Dennis Potter’s Visitors	Eddie (principal)
1988	Tales of the Unexpected	Stephen Baker
	Rock and Roll Mom	Jeff Robins
1989	Divided We Stand	Bryan Gibbs (Pilot Lead)
1990	The Care of Time	Robert Halliday
1991	Dynasty: The Reunion	Arlen Marshall (series reagular)
1992	Homefries (TV series)	Ted Kramer (series lead)
1994	Shattering the Silence (Not in My Family)	Ted Ricci
1995	Murder She Wrote	Alex Weaver
1996	Gone in a Night	David Protess
1997	Apocalypse Watch By Robert Ludlam	Ambassdor Courtland (supporting)
	The Knock (mini-series)	Principal
1998	Dark Realm	Guest Lead
	J.A.G.	D.A. Nardoni, Col.Hegstetter
	The Nanny	Stan
	Ally McBeal	D.A. Dawson
1999	CI5: The New Professionals	Dr. Woods
	Jonathan Creek	Capt. Frank Candy
	The Practice	D.A. Dawson
2001	The Division	Judge Stone
2002	The Lost Battalion	General Alexander (supporting)
	Dinotopia	Frank Scott
2003	Ed Stone is Dead	Dad
2004-2012	Thomas & Friends	US Narrator (2003-2012) (US, voice) Diesel, Mr. Bubbles and the Stationmasters (Maithwaite/Knapford) (2010-2012) (US, voice)
2004	The Catherine Tate Show	The Botox Skit
	Hawking	Arno Penzias
2005	Dead Man Weds	Chuck Newman
2006	Miss Marple The Sittaford Mystery	Martin Zimmerman
	The Catherine Tate Show Season 2	The Botox Breasts
	Trial and Retribution XI: Closure	Max Stanford/Profiler
2007	Casualty	Mike Barnicott
	The Bill	Louis Dreyfuss (4 episodes)
2008	Bewitched	Rex
	Doctor Who	General Sanchez (Episode: The Stolen Earth)
2009	After You've Gone	Bill Tucker
	Bones	Roger Frampton
	New Tricks	Colonel Norton
2010	Shades of Love	Conrad
	Hustle	Marcus Wendell
2012	American Invitation	Narrator and Presenter
	Episodes	Elliot Salad
	Mr. Selfridge	FW Woolworth
2013	Stepping Out	Self, with Glynis Barber
	Death in Paradise	Joel Maurice
2014	Blandings	Grumman

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