Michael Billington (born on December 24, 1941 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England; died on June 3, 2005 in the UK) was a popular British film and television actor.

Billington was best known for his role as Colonel Paul Foster in the 1970 science fiction series, UFO, and for creating the character of Daniel Fogarty in the 1971-1974 historical drama, The Onedin Line. He also appeared as Sergeant Jacko Jackson of the Royal Wessex Rangers in the series Spearhead and as Czar Nicholas II in the mini-series "Edward VII" (1975).

Billington's last major television role was in the 1986 BBC drama The Collectors (TV series), (though his final appearance on TV was in an episode of early 1990s TV series 'Maigret' as the villain.)

Billington was screen tested for the role of James Bond more than any other actor and was said to have been Albert R. Broccoli's first choice had Roger Moore not appeared in 1981's For Your Eyes Only. Billington also screen tested for Live and Let Die (1973), Moonraker (1979), and Octopussy (1983). He ultimately appeared in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, playing Sergei Barsov, Agent XXX's ill-fated lover, at the start of the film.

Billington died of cancer at the age of 63, and predeceased one of his UFO co-stars, Ed Bishop, by five days.

Michael Billington (born on 16 November 1939 in Warwickshire, England) is a British author and journalist who has been the theatre critic of The Guardian newspaper, London, since 1971.

Michael O. Billington is an activist in the LaRouche Movement, Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review, and author of Reflections of an American Political Prisoner: the Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement.

Billington graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1967. He then joined the Peace Corps, where he taught Mathematics and Music, first in Guyana, then in Thailand. Upon returning to the U.S. he joined the LaRouche movement in 1972, in the early stages of the movement's history. His wife, Gail, and his brother, Joe, were also members of the movement. Billington's book provides an "insider" look at the history of this highly controversial movement.

Billington ran on the U.S. Labor Party platform for County Executive of Westchester County, New York in 1977, and for New York's 24th congressional district in 1978.

Perennial James Bond candidate from the seventies into the early eighties - screentested several times according to his website.

By a sad co-incidence, he and his "U.F.O." co-star Ed Bishop both died within a week of one another