Roland Culver
Biography
Date of Birth 21 August 1900, London, England, UK Date of Death 1 March 1984, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK (heart attack) Birth Name Roland Joseph Culver Roland Culver's autobiography, which scarcely mentions his films, was called Not Quite a Gentleman (1979), but it would have taken a very practised cinemagoing eye to notice the difference as he made his way through about 90 films. He could be corrupt as in The Ship That Died of Shame (d. Basil Dearden, 1955) or blinkered and blustery as in Rockets Galore (d. Michael Relph, 1958), but rarely ungentlemanly. Born in London on 31 August 1900, after WW1 experience as a RAF pilot, he trained at RADA. He starred on the stage (debut 1924), and was moving as the non-gentleman father in Five Finger Exercise (d. Daniel Mann, 1958), but not on screen, which gave him good character roles within a quite narrow range, though the deftness of his timing and his way with a dry line shouldn't be underestimated. There are numerous lords and colonels among his films, but a rare exception in a minor film - a tenacious police inspector in The Late Edwina Black (1951) - stays in the mind among such clubbable types as John Justin's old friend in The Man Who Loved Redheads (1954). He was in Hollywood from 1946-49, initially to play a benign aristocrat in To Each His Own (1946), and on TV he was a memorable Duke of Omnium in The Pallisers (1974). His son is actor Michael Culver.
Dead of Night
Eliot Foley
The Legend of Hell House
Rudolph Deutsch
Kaiserwalzer
Baron Holenia
The First of the Few
Commander Bride
Una vida y un amor
Michael Van Leyden
Hotel Sahara
Major Bill Randall
To Each His Own
Lord Desham
The Great Lover
Grand Duke Maximillian
Safari
Sir Vincent Brampton
Folly to Be Wise
George Prout
The Missionary
Lord Fermleigh
Britannia Hospital
General Wetherby
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bishop of Paris
Tales of the Unexpected, Set 1
Mr. Foster / ... (2 episodes, 1979-1982)
Rough Cut
Mr. Lloyd Palmer
The Greek Tycoon
Robert Keith
The Uncanny
Wallace (segment 1 "London 1912")
The MacKintosh Man
Judge
The Legend of Hell House
Rudolph Deutsch
The Nelson Affair
Lord Barham
Lord Goddard
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Sir Eric Bentley
Fragment of Fear
Mr. Vellacot
The Magic Christian
Sir Herbert (uncredited)
D is for Diamonds
Doctor Mathieson
Thunderball
Foreign Secretary
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Norwood
The Swingin' Maiden
Lord Upshott
Term of Trial
Trowman
A Pair of Briefs
Sir John Pilbright
Next to No Time
Sir Godfrey Cowan
Bonjour Tristesse
Mr. Lombard
The Circle
Detective Inspector Dane
The Hypnotist
Doctor Francis Pelham
Safari
Sir Vincent Brampton
Ein Alligator Namens Daisy
Col. Geoffrey Weston
Touch and Go
Fairbright
PT Raiders
Fordyce
The Man Who Loved Redheads
Major Oscar Philipson
The Teckman Mystery
Insp. Harris
Betrayed
Gen. Warsleigh
Shoot First
Randall
Folly to Be Wise
George Prout
The Holly and the Ivy
Lord B.
The Hour of 13
Connor
Encore
George Ramsay (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
The Obsessed
Inspector
Hotel Sahara
Major Bill Randall
The Great Lover
Grand Duke Maximillian
Kaiserwalzer
Baron Holenia
Down to Earth
Mr. Jordan
Una vida y un amor
Michael Van Leyden
Wanted For Murder
Chief Insp. Conway
To Each His Own
Lord Desham
Vacation from Marriage
Richard
Dead of Night
Eliot Foley
On Approval
Richard Halton
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Colonel Betteridge
Secret Mission
Red Gowan
The First of the Few
Commander Bride
The Avengers
Naval Attache
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
Naval Officer
Old Bill and Son
Colonel
Night Train To Munich
Roberts
When Thief Meets Thief
BBC Audition
Accused
Henry Capelle
Nell Gwyn
Bit Part (uncredited)
There Goes the Bride
Jacques
The Truth About Women
Charles Tavistock
Unpublished Story
Stannard
