Biography
Michael Culkin is an English theatre, film, and television actor probably best known for his role as Judge Buller in the BBC drama Garrow's Law. Among his other credits include a role in the children's drama M. I. High as a solicitor, and Hugo Blandford in Doctors. He also had a role in the 2009 film Dorian Gray.
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Complete Filmography

Surprised by Oxford
2023
as Professor McTeague
Brilliant but emotionally-guarded Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD, but through a turbulent friendship with a ...

The Nest
2020
as Arthur Davis
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After a...

The Good Liar
2019
as Dr. Livesey
Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer...

Holmes & Watson
2018
as The Judge
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case...

Peterloo
2018
as A Lord
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Mancheste...

55 Steps
2018
as Judge Farelly
The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the righ...

Chicken
2016
as McClint
RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land t...

Mr. Holmes
2015
as Bank Manager
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he re...

Mortdecai
2015
as Sir Graham Archer
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

Mr. Turner
2014
as Gentleman Critic
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...

The Fifth Estate
2013
as Ralph Zilke
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the ...

The Door
2012
as King
A man of incredible wealth and power is haunted by a childhood memory.

The Iron Lady
2011
as Host 1949
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Shanghai
2010
as Billy
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
2010
as Charles Lawton
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with ...

Dorian Gray
2009
as Lord Radley
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance,...

Boogie Woogie
2009
as Beth's Father
In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his a...

Star Runners
2009
as Bishop
Two space smugglers are caught by the government and told if they deliver a crate to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the c...

Trent 2 Rent
2008
as Broken Arm Trick
Trent splits up with his girlfriend Helen. With nowhere to go he moves in with his friend Joey. It does not take long however before Trent figures out...

Nightwatching
2007
as Herman Wormskerck
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murder...

Forgiven
2007
as Judge
Suburban housewife Liz discovers that husband Stephen is abusing their daughter. She confronts him and reports him to the authorities, but also decide...

Treasure Island
2007
as Captain Smolett
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasur...

Outlaw
2007
as Barrister (uncredited)
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they ...

Crusade in Jeans
2006
as Anselmus
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part ...

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
2005
as Willie De Salis
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

A Life in Suitcases
2005
as Luper Authority
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.

Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
as Lord Cromer's Secretary
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review...

Dot.Kill
2005
as Happy Bob's Clerk
Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As ...

Strings
2004
as Agra
Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he dis...

Being Julia
2004
as Rupert
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...

Monsieur N.
2003
as Adm. Cockburn
This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon ...

The Hours
2002
as Doctor
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Liggins Conspirator
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexu...

Don Quixote
2000
as 1st Monk
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a ...

Plunkett & MacLeane
1999
as Judge Beresteade
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: T...

An Ideal Husband
1999
as Oscar Wilde
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London w...

Place Vendôme
1998
as De Beers Man
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...

Dangerous Beauty
1998
as Bishop De la Torre
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que...

The Woodlanders
1998
as Percombe
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishi...

Solomon
1997
as Hiram of Naphtali
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospecti...

Photographing Fairies
1997
as Cole
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photogra...

Into the Blue
1997
as Rex Cunningham
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, i...

The Fifth Element
1997
as Hefty Man
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995
as Phillip Purcell
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns ...

Immortal Beloved
1994
as Jakob Hotscevar
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in...

L.A. Rules The Pros & Cons of Breathing
1993
as The Investor
A group of guys hang around a Los Angeles bar lamenting their failed Hollywood lives, while a perky bartender (Joey Lauren Adams) tries to cheer them ...

Candyman
1992
as Phillip Purcell
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Savage House
N/A
as Lord Ashbury
Set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – this is a timely and darkly satirical story of Sir C...
Ballerina Overdrive
N/A
as Lothar Marcovic
A troupe of ballerinas find themselves fighting for survival as they attempt to escape from a remote inn after their bus breaks down on the way to a d...