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(19**-****) Actor, playwright, broadcaster
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(19**-****) Actor, playwright, broadcaster. Pseudonym of [[Michael McCullagh]]
  
  
His son in [[Mike McCullagh]],  and his grandson is [[James McCullagh]].   
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His sons are musicians [[Tully McCullagh]] and  [[Mike McCullagh]],  and his grandson is actor [[James McCullagh]].   
  
  
== Biography ==
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= Biography =
  
  
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=== Novelist ===
  
  
  
=== As playwright: ===
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''Signpost to fear'' [thriller] by Michael Drin (1964)
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=== Stage plays ===
 
   
 
   
  
Wrote the stage plays ''[[Portuguese Match]]'' (1967), ''[[Inquest on Gordon]]'' (1978), ''[[Chad]]'' (1981), ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''  (1990).*
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Wrote ''[[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).*
  
  
TV series
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== TV series ==
  
Co-author of ''[[Interster]]'', ([[C-Films]], 1981)
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Co-author with  [[Johan Beukes]] of ''[[Interster]]'', ([[C-Films]], 1981)
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==
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== Sources ==
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= Sources =
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5958864/
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https://www.google.co.za/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Michael+Drin+C-Films
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http://www.amazon.com/Signpost-fear-thriller-Michael-Drin/dp/B007T4TVIC/ref=la_B00IZ1L78U_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410444705&sr=1-1
  
 
[[Baxter Theatre]] programme (''[[Every Good Boy Deserves Favour]]'')
 
[[Baxter Theatre]] programme (''[[Every Good Boy Deserves Favour]]'')

Revision as of 16:23, 11 September 2014

(19**-****) Actor, playwright, broadcaster. Pseudonym of Michael McCullagh


His sons are musicians Tully McCullagh and Mike McCullagh, and his grandson is actor James McCullagh.


Biography

Training

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As actor

As stage actor:

Appeared in Becket (1963), Home (1978), Whose Life is it Anyway? (1990s), Playing with Fire,


As film actor

Decision to Die (1978); Next Stop Makouvlei (1972).


As radio actor

Nelson, prelude and fugue: a radio play (SABC, 196*)

As writer

Novelist

Signpost to fear [thriller] by Michael Drin (1964)

Stage plays

Wrote 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).*


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 in 1978 for his play Inquest on Gordon and in 1981 for Chad.


Sources

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5958864/

https://www.google.co.za/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Michael+Drin+C-Films

http://www.amazon.com/Signpost-fear-thriller-Michael-Drin/dp/B007T4TVIC/ref=la_B00IZ1L78U_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410444705&sr=1-1

Baxter Theatre programme (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)


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