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Post by felixdeburgh on Mar 12, 2024 21:33:55 GMT
A very recognisable face to people on this forum having appeared in the holy trinity of Minder, The Sweeney and The Professionals, he sadly passed away last month at the age of 85. Apart from the 3 series already mentioned, he also appeared in Man In A Suitcase, The Persuaders!, Thriller, Space:1999, The Empire Strikes Back and had uncredited parts in 2 Bond films - From Russia With Love and Thunderball.
RIP.
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Post by gustav on Mar 12, 2024 21:51:10 GMT
A very recognisable face to people on this forum having appeared in the holy trinity of Minder, The Sweeney and The Professionals, he sadly passed away last month at the age of 85. Apart from the 3 series already mentioned, he also appeared in Man In A Suitcase, The Persuaders!, Thriller, Space:1999, The Empire Strikes Back and had uncredited parts in 2 Bond films - From Russia With Love and Thunderball. RIP. Sad to hear this, he was in loads of stuff. He was in Secret Army, I particularly remember him for that. His father was a notable actor too. |
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Post by felixdeburgh on Mar 12, 2024 22:56:15 GMT
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Post by AlanH on Mar 12, 2024 23:20:44 GMT
Absolutely superb character actor. Very sad to hear he's gone. RIP.
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Post by jno on Mar 13, 2024 2:19:24 GMT
Agreed, great actor in so many things!
RIP Michael Culver
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Post by pr1 on Mar 13, 2024 7:32:06 GMT
Very fine character actor. Rest In Peace.
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Post by ltd on Mar 13, 2024 9:13:22 GMT
Great as Soames in Poetic Justice, Innit? A cop so horrible and vindictive that even Chisholm hated him. As others have said he was in loads of stuff and always a welcome presence. I'd like to tip the nod to his performance as the ghost in The Green Man which was supremely creepy. A superlative actor.
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Post by simon316 on Mar 13, 2024 11:57:28 GMT
I had to look him up for his Minder role, but yes the difficult police officer that as said, even Chisholm hated him. But I remember him more for his part in New Tricks (Holy Quaternary? Maybe) as the bit bent investigating officer in the Roddy Ringer case. When watching, I felt that golf ball in the guts as much as he did.
A very good actor - if you needed a character who was going to be difficult to deal with and had the face for it, this was your man.
RIP Mr Culver
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Post by bodiesstuntdouble on Mar 13, 2024 15:31:42 GMT
Sad to learn, he was a good character actor who appeared in many a forum favourite
RIP Sir
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Post by spacecadet on Mar 13, 2024 23:05:17 GMT
A great character actor who was in a lot of popular film and TV.
RIP Michael.
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Post by billyfarmer on Mar 13, 2024 23:38:37 GMT
Very sad news.
An Actor, who I have always liked, I recently watched the Minder episode, in which Michael, appeared.
My favourite TV role of Michael Culver, will always be Major Erwin Brandt, in series one and two of Secret Army (my favourite Wartime TV series).
I looked up Michael Culver's credits, on IMDb, and wasn't surprised to find out that I have got many of his TV appearances (in over 20 TV series's), on DVD.
A special mention for two more of Michael's TV roles - Reginald Musgrave, in an episode (The Musgrave Ritual) of the Sherlock Holmes Granada series, and Squire Armstrong, which was a recurring role in The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972-1974).
R.I.P. Michael Culver.
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Post by daz on Mar 16, 2024 8:02:22 GMT
I came across this news yesterday, when I was looking something up in IMDB.
A very good character actor, who is best known to me for his role in the excellent Secret Army.
He is also a member of the illuminati who appeared across the holy trinity of TV shows that we are mainly on here for and a load of ITC shows for good measure.
I was very impressed to read about his activism too, whilst reading through various obituaries of him.
RIP
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Post by billymedhurst on Mar 17, 2024 13:03:11 GMT
Excellent excellent actor. Has been in so much I have watched over the course of my life; often as a senior Army officer, or other high-ranking official. Putting his clipped accent to good use. RIP.
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Post by ltd on Mar 17, 2024 18:44:01 GMT
Excellent excellent actor. Has been in so much I have watched over the course of my life; often as a senior Army officer, or other high-ranking official. Putting his clipped accent to good use. RIP. He's great as senior MI6 bod Dicky Cruyer in the 1980s adaptation of Len Deighton's Game, Set and Match. Apparently Deighton wasn't keen on some of the casting choices, and I can see why (although I think he was over precious about it). Michael Culver is perfect though - whenever I read the books it's always him I see if there's an episode of Dicky being particularly egregious like swanning around Mexico City shopping for souvenirs instead of nurse maiding a potential Soviet defector. |
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Post by yorkshirebilly on Mar 18, 2024 9:28:40 GMT
I rememeber him in The Professionals episode Lawson's Last Stand as the army officer who lost his marbles and threatened to attack London with nerve gas, and the way Bodie and Doyle worked out the blind spot by with they could attack him.
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Post by Albert Wendell on Mar 18, 2024 23:13:16 GMT
Knew the name had to image search and yes I knew the face. Looking at IMDB he's been in loads, seeing his credit for 'The Darling Buds Of May' (something I haven't seen for years) and I think I remember his character as being an upper class difficult to deal with owner of a collapsing property of the gentry that Pop Larkin bought cheap and sold to a gullible couple.
He was good in 'Villains' as one of the bank robbers who was a lying fantasist.
RIP
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Post by ltd on Mar 20, 2024 10:17:01 GMT
He was good in 'Villains' as one of the bank robbers who was a lying fantasist. I'd forgotten that one - he is really good. |
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Post by kusumkangguru on Mar 21, 2024 16:03:57 GMT
I rememeber him in The Professionals episode Lawson's Last Stand as the army officer who lost his marbles and threatened to attack London with nerve gas, and the way Bodie and Doyle worked out the blind spot by with they could attack him. The scene where Lawson stands up in the pub and belts out the national anthem before damning all the customers who stayed seated ('"You see what's wrong? They won't stand. IT'S THEIR OWN NATIONAL ANTHEM, AND NOT ONE OF'M STOOD!''), is a scene that for some reason stayed with me for many years after first seeing it as a kid. Dunno if that is a good or bad thing! |
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Post by yorkshirebilly on Mar 21, 2024 16:30:55 GMT
I rememeber him in The Professionals episode Lawson's Last Stand as the army officer who lost his marbles and threatened to attack London with nerve gas, and the way Bodie and Doyle worked out the blind spot by with they could attack him. The scene where Lawson stands up in the pub and belts out the national anthem before damning all the customers who stayed seated ('"You see what's wrong? They won't stand. IT'S THEIR OWN NATIONAL ANTHEM, AND NOT ONE OF'M STOOD!''), is a scene that for some reason stayed with me for many years after first seeing it as a kid. Dunno if that is a good or bad thing!
I'd forgotten that scene. Very powerful scene. Says a lot about the UK's lack of pride in itself - or the fact that "being proud to be British" is seen (very wrongly, IMHO) as being insulting to people who are not British but who live in the UK. America does national pride so much better: every school has a Stars and Stripes prominently displayed and the children all sing the US national anthem as part of assembly - according to a friend who lived in the US for a few years as a child in the late 70s / early 80s, and to my nephews who lived there as children in the late 1990s. When I was there (in Massachussets) in the late 1990s, I noticed that in small-town America (towns near Boston) most houses had a flag displayed somewhere - maybe just a small one on a pole above the front door. How many people would fly a Union Jack/Flag here? And how many would fly an England flag as opposed to a Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland, apart from in the run up to a football match? Britain, and especially England, seems to have forgotten how to (or is too afraid to) celebrate its identity.
I'd feel a bit of a berk, standing up in a pub or at a theatre/cinema if the national anthem was played.
I was on a cruise (P&O, departing from/returning to Southampton, so most passengers were Brits) at the time of King Charles's coronation, and plastic Union Jacks on sticks were given to each passenger. I heard some (non-British) people saying that they wanted to fly their own national flag instead, and one guy said that it's fine to fly Scottish, Welsh or NI flags, but not the English flag because that is "the National Front flag". How desperately sad...
At one port (Olden, in Norway) there is a guy (maybe a British ex-pat) who always waves an enormous Union Jack from a chalet on the hill as our ship departs. Either he has a British connection or else he has several flags and flies the appropriate one for the nationality of the ship.
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Post by ltd on Mar 21, 2024 17:55:59 GMT
The scene where Lawson stands up in the pub and belts out the national anthem before damning all the customers who stayed seated ('"You see what's wrong? They won't stand. IT'S THEIR OWN NATIONAL ANTHEM, AND NOT ONE OF'M STOOD!''), is a scene that for some reason stayed with me for many years after first seeing it as a kid. Dunno if that is a good or bad thing!
I'd forgotten that scene. Very powerful scene. Says a lot about the UK's lack of pride in itself - or the fact that "being proud to be British" is seen (very wrongly, IMHO) as being insulting to people who are not British but who live in the UK.
Or maybe the pub customers just thought our national anthem was a dreadful dirge. I don't see that it's particularly patriotic in itself, it's more a hymn of submission to a particular group of people who historically haven't always distinguished themselves on the national stage. As an Englishman I'd like to see it replaced with something else. Maybe Jerusalem at a pinch - I'm not much of a christian but at at least it's got a decent tune. Anyway in danger of veering off topic here. Given his activism I would guess the late Mr Culver was a republican. |
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Post by kusumkangguru on Mar 22, 2024 15:46:47 GMT
Or maybe the pub customers just thought our national anthem was a dreadful dirge. Just to add more confusion, it's also the same national anthem for Leichtenstein! |
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