Michael Drin
(19**-****) Actor, playwright, broadcaster. (Stage name of ** McCullagh)
His sons are musicians Tully McCullagh and Mike McCullagh, and his grandson is actor James McCullagh.
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Biography
Training
Career
He worked for 5 years with the Brian Brooke Company in Cape Town.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As actor
As stage actor:
Appeared in A Ball at the Castle (1952), Dial M for Murder, Deep Blue Sea, A Streetcar Named Desire, Mornings at Seven (1959), 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 Remember Ireland, 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).*
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
Baxter Theatre programme (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)
Mornings at Seven programme notes, 1959.
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