Roland Culver

British actor (1900–1984) | Dead of Night (1945), The Vicious Circle (1957), Secret Mission (1942)

British stage actor of impeccable English types, usually comic

Mini Biography

Born in London, Roland Culver worked for an optical company before studying at RADA, and was on stage from 1924. In the late 1940s he worked in Hollywood, under contract for two years to Paramount before returning to England. Married twice.

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Roland Culver (Richard Halton) sits up in bed in On Approval as Googie Withers (Helen Hale) looks on — Roland Culver sits up in bed in On Approval as Googie Withers looks on

Screenshot from Give us the Moon (1944) (3) — Give us the Moon (1944) screenshot (3)

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Personal Details

Born

Died

Died

Roland Culver died in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire on 1^st March, 1984, aged 83.
Born

Roland Culver was born in London on 21^st August, 1900.

Watch Roland Culver on British television

- Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
- Death Can Add (1982, S5, Ep 10)
- Wednesday at 5.30pm on Sky Arts HD
- 4^th March at 4.30am on Sky Arts HD
- 5^th March at 9.30am on Sky Arts HD
- 7^th March at 8.30am on Sky Arts HD
- Star-studded sinister and amusing stories, each with a twist in the tale, created by Roald Dahl.
- Unpublished Story (1942)
- Sunday at 1.25pm on Talking Pictures TV
- 4^th March at 10.30am on Talking Pictures TV
- A reporter exposes the Nazis behind a pacifist organisation.
- This England (1941)
- Tuesday at 6am on Talking Pictures TV
- Landowner and labourer express contrary views through five periods of English history.
- A Voice in the Night (1946)
  
  [as Wanted for Murder]
- 7^th March at 10am on 5Select
- 7^th March at 11.10am on 5Select
- A man, obsessed with the fact that his father was the public hangman, becomes a murderer himself.