Culver also appeared on lots of British television over the years, from The Befrienders, Secret Army and The Adventures of Black Beauty to The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Game Set and Match, The House of Eliott and the Derek Jacobi-starring Cadfael.
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Michael Culver, the veteran British actor who portrayed the doomed Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back and a bigoted police inspector in David Lean’s A Passage to India, has died.
Culver also appeared on lots of British television over the years, from The Befrienders, Secret Army and The Adventures of Black Beauty to The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Game Set and Match, The House of Eliott and the Derek Jacobi-starring Cadfael.
Culver then portrayed Major McBryde in the best picture Oscar nominee A Passage to India (1984), starring Academy Award winner Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox and Alec Guinness.
He attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and as a member of the Old Vic company appeared back-to-back-to-back on Broadway in 1958 in Twelfth Night, Hamlet and King Henry V. In 1962, he made it to the West End in Judith.
Culver had a breakthrough with a starring turn alongside Jacobi and Anthony Bate in the 1977 ITV telefilm Philby, Burgess and Maclean, about three real-life MI5 agents who were working as Russian spies.
Alliance Agents said Culver largely gave up acting in the early 2000s to concentrate on political activism.
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owen@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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