Michael Drin
(19**-****) Actor, playwright, broadcaster. Pseudonym of Michael McCullagh
His sons are musicians Tully McCullagh and Mike McCullagh, and his grandson is actor James McCullagh.
Contents
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
Baxter Theatre programme (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)
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