Michael york actor illness
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"I got my life back,” he said. “What may have been an everyday experience for them, seemed little short of miraculous to Pat and myself, and our gratitude was boundless.”¹
But even as the treatment proved effective, traveling to Mayo for regular check-ups became tiresome. As York tells it, after more than five decades in Hollywood, “it was about time to move on.” The Yorks sold their home and most of their possessions and moved to the Med City, in an apartment close to the Clinic. Now, after years of fame and travel, the Yorks say they feel settled and focused — and are eager to get to know their newly-adopted home.
"High on my to-do list is to get to know the city, and the state; you know, take a cruise on the Mississippi or on the Great Lakes,” said York.
He added, "LA was getting very crowded, and busy, and smoggy. Everyone remarked, 'It's not the same city it was'; whereas I think Rochester is all about the future. It's a great can-do place."
Born in Fulmer, England, York went on to get an English degree from Oxford University before landing his film debut as Lucentio in Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew in 1967.
His big break came a year later when he was cast as Tybalt in Zeffirelli’s next film, Romeo and Juliet. The Shakespeare adaptation, the
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‘I’ll never take anything for granted again…’
He looks every inch the English gentleman – and even more so when he dives off to the kitchen to serve tea and digestives.
He has every reason to be ecstatic. Not only has Michael just celebrated his 45th wedding anniversary and 71st birthday (he looks ridiculously younger than his years), but he’s also, finally, feeling energetic enough to travel – tomorrow, he’s off to Brazil. Because, for the last two years, Michael York has been suffering from a debilitating and potentially deadly illness.
Rarely seen in public since 2010, he appeared at a recent Cabaret reunion in New York, with co-stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, looking pallid, with a hoarse voice and swollen features. Rumours circulated that he had throat cancer, the same disease that had afflicted Michael Douglas (ironically, both Douglas and York fell ill within weeks of each other). But now, for the first time, Michael quashes the rumours and reveals the truth behind the illness – a rare blood disorder, which nearly killed him.
‘I don’t
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Michael York
British actor
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