Michael Kitchen (born October 31, 1948) is an English actor. Since 2002 he has been starring in the ITV television detective series Foyle’s War.

Michael Kitchen in ‘Foyle’s War’.

Kitchen was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. He worked with the National Youth Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry before attending RADA. Before he left the academy in 1969 he won the “Emile Littler Award” for ‘outstanding talent and aptitude for the professional theatre’.

Other roles include Martin in the original production of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle; Peter in Stephen Poliakoff’s Caught on a Train; Edmund in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of King Lear; the Antipholi in the same series’ production of The Comedy of Errors; Berkeley Cole in Out of Africa; the King in To Play the King (a character based in part on Prince Charles); and a recurring role as Bill Tanner in two Pierce Brosnan James Bond films.