Michael Culver

Personal life

Actor

Theatre

With [Dundee Repertory Theatre] 1959–1961

• In Search of Happiness by Victor Rozov Translated by Nina Froud. Directed by Anthony Page.
• Fools Rush In by Kenneth Horne, Directed by Anthony Page.
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Anthony Page.
• Tomorrow's Child by John Coates.
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
• The Cat and the Canary by John Willard, Directed by Anthony Page Designer: Chris J. Arthur.
• The Critic and the Heart by Robert Bolt. Directed by Anthony Page.
• See How They Run by Philip King. Directed by Anthony Page Designer: Philip King.
• Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin. Directed by Anthony Page Designer: Peter Gray.
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Directed by Anthony Page Edward Furby.
• Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer. Directed by Anthony Page.
• Roar Like a Dove by Lesley Storm. Directed by Lesley Storm.
• The Blind Madonna by Neil Curnow Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Eighty in the shade by Clemence Dane. Directed by Raymond Westwell
• Dear Brutus by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Performance marking the centenary year of playwright J.M. Barrie's birth. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Any Other Business by Campbell Singer Directed by Anthony Page.
• Lucky Strike by Michael Brett.
• Caught Napping by Geoffrey Lumsden. Directedy Raymond Westwell.
• Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Gilt and Gingerbread by Lionel Hale. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Murder on Arrival by George Batson. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Sinbad the Sailor by James Grout and Ken Wynne, Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Brothers in Law by Ted Willis and Henry Cecil. Directed by Raymond Westwell
• Present Laughter by Sir Noël Coward Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willis Hall. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• The Manor of Northstead by William Douglas-Home. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Love in a Mist by Kenneth Horne Directed by Mary Evans and James Ward.
• Not in the Book by Arthur Watkyn. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• The Vanity Case by Jack Popplewell. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. Directed by Raymond Westwell.
• Love from a Stranger by Agatha Christie adapted by Frank Vosper. Directed by Anthony Page.
• The Durable Element by Cliff Hanley. Directed by John Crockett.

Shakespeare At the [Old Vic]

London and West End

• Judith by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Christopher Fry, Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket and Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1962. Directed by Harold Clurman.
• The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by Michael Meyer, The New Arts Theatre Club, 1962. Directed by Terence Kilburn. Michael Culver played Ragnar Brovik. The cast included: Keith Pyott, Andrew Cruickshank, Viola Keats and Mary Miller.
• Alexander in A Severed Head, Criterion Theatre, 1963, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, Directed by Val May.

[Tricycle Theatre]

• Gore-Booth and Sir Nicholas Lyell in Half the Picture, adapted by Richard Norton-Taylor With additional material by John McGrath; Tricycle Theatre, 1994. Directed by Nicolas Kent. This was the first play to be performed in the Palace of Westminster.
• Ragnar Brovik in The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by Michael Meyer, The New Arts Theatre Club, 1962. Directed by Terence Kilburn.
• Albert Speer in Nuremberg Transcripts edited by: Richard Norton-Taylor; Tricycle Theatre, 1996. Directed by Nicolas Kent.
• Sir William Macpherson in The Colour of Justice, edited by Richard Norton-Taylor, transferred to the Lyttelton Theatre and toured the UK, 1999. Directed by Nicolas Kent, assisted by Surian Fletcher-Jones, it won Best Touring Production in Theatrical Management Association Awards.
• Fashion by Doug Lucie; Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, transferred from to the Tricycle Theatre 1989–1990.

Touring productions

• Mr Wickham in Pride and Prejudice from the novel by Jane Austen; toured 1966. Produced/Directed by Sheila Hancock.
• Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
• Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward.

Other

• Ellis Petersen in A Share in the Sun by Terence Kelly and Campbell Singer, New Theatre, Oxford and Cambridge Theatre, 1966. Directed by Harold French.
• Peter Quilpe in The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot, Theatre Royal, Windsor, 1966. Directed by Neville Jason.
• Charles in Howards End adapted by Lance Sieveking in collaboration with Richard Cottrell from the novel by E. M. Forster; toured 1967. Directed by Dacre Punt.
• Mike Danbury in Anything For Baby by Talbot Rothwell and William Meyer; Wimbledon Theatre, 1969. Directed by Patrick Cargill
• The Earl of Harpenden in While the Sun Shines by Terence Rattigan; Hampstead Theatre Club, 1972. Directed by Alec McCowen
• Young Macduff in Macbeth by William Shakespeare Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, 1978. Directed by John Tydeman.
• Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, Berkshire, 1979. Directed by Joan Riley
• Roald Amundsen in Terra Nova by Ted Tally; Watford Palace Theatre, 1982. Directed by Michael Attenborough
• Hugo in The Little Heroine by Nell Dunn; Nuffield Theatre, University of Southampton, 1988. Directed by Ian Watt-Smith.
• Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley, Royal Exchange, Manchester
• Two Plays for Gaza, 2009 (Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill and The Trainer by David Wilson & Anne Aylor at the Hackney Empire

Radio and voice work

• The Burning Glass by Jo Anderson and Directed Andy Jordan.

• Rachmaninoff Presented by Melvyn Bragg

• Fatherland by Robert Harris. Adapted and Directed by John Dryden

• Flight of the Swan by Jean MacVean. BBC Radio 4, 7 August 1982

• Wilderness of Mirrors Unabridged 1989 reading of the novel by Ted Allbeury
• The Shadow of Mir by Nick Fisher and directed by John Dryden. First broadcast BBC Radio 4 on 8 May 1998 as the Friday Play

Filmography

Film

1961–1970

1971–1980

1981–1990

1991–2000

2001–2013

Documentary