Michael Drin
Michael Drin (19**-) was an actor, playwright and broadcaster.
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Biography
Born Michael McCullagh, he used the stage name of Michael Drin.
His sons Tully McCullagh (1953-) and Mike McCullagh (1947-), became founder members of the band McCully Workshop [["https://mccullyworkshop.wordpress.com/] while his grandson is actor James McCullagh (son of Mike).
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He worked for 5 years with the Brian Brooke Company in Cape Town, wrote various series and performed on the old Springbok Radio staion in the 1960's and 70's as well as writing and performing in films and TV-series.
As stage actor:
Appeared in The Ball at the Castle (1952), Dial M for Murder, The Deep Blue Sea, A Streetcar Named Desire, Look Back in Anger (1957), Mornings at Seven (1959), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1960), The Corn is Green (1962), Becket (1963), After the Fall (1964), Richard II (as Duke of York, 1968), The Merry Wives of Windsor (as Justice Shallow at Maynardville, January 1969), The Magistrate (1969), Othello (1970), Richard Gush of Salem (1970), Biography (1971), Hadrian the Seventh (1971-3), McCullough, or Travels with a Collapsible Woman (CAPAB 1972), The School for Wives (1973), Home (1978), Playing with Fire (1983), Francis (1985), Whose Life is it Anyway? (1990s).
As film actor
Decision to Die (1978); Next Stop Makouvlei (1972).
As radio actor
Nelson, prelude and fugue: a radio play (SABC, 196*)
As playwright
As novelist
Signpost to fear [thriller] by Michael Drin (1964)
Stage plays
Wrote Remember Island, Floodlight, The Chinese Mask(in "Second Windmill Book Of One act Plays" published by Heinemann educational 1963), Puppet Prince (prod UK 1964); Portuguese Match (1967), Inquest on Gordon (1978), Chad (1981), The Phantom of the Opera (1990).*
He wrote the book for the rock fantasy Kings of Rok.
TV series
Co-author with Johan Beukes of Interster, (C-Films, 1981)
Awards, etc
He received the Amstel Playwright of the Year Special Merit Award twice, first in 1978 for his play Inquest on Gordon and then again in 1981 for Chad.
Sources
https://blog.sugarman.org/2009/10/17/mccully-workshop-inc/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5958864/
https://www.google.co.za/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Michael+Drin+C-Films
Baxter Theatre programme (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)
Mornings at Seven programme notes, 1959.
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
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