Michael Culkin

Michael Culkin

1954-07-02 City of London, London, England, UK 49 Credits

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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Surprised by Oxford

Surprised by Oxford

2023

as Professor McTeague

5.6
Acting

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

The Nest

2020

as Arthur Davis

6.1
Acting

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

The Good Liar

2019

as Dr. Livesey

6.7
Acting

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

Holmes & Watson

2018

as The Judge

4.3
Acting

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

Peterloo

2018

as A Lord

6.8
Acting

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

55 Steps

2018

as Judge Farelly

6.7
Acting

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

Chicken

2016

as McClint

5.5
Acting

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

Mr. Holmes

2015

as Bank Manager

6.5
Acting

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

Mortdecai

2015

as Sir Graham Archer

5.5
Acting

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

Mr. Turner

2014

as Gentleman Critic

6.5
Acting

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

The Fifth Estate

2013

as Ralph Zilke

6.0
Acting

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

The Door

2012

as King

Acting

A man of incredible wealth and power is haunted by a childhood memory.

The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady

2011

as Host 1949

6.4
Acting

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

Shanghai

2010

as Billy

6.1
Acting

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

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

2010

as Charles Lawton

6.6
Acting

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

Dorian Gray

2009

as Lord Radley

6.0
Acting

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

Boogie Woogie

Boogie Woogie

2009

as Beth's Father

5.0
Acting

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

Star Runners

2009

as Bishop

5.5
Acting

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

Trent 2 Rent

2008

as Broken Arm Trick

Acting

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

Nightwatching

2007

as Herman Wormskerck

6.4
Acting

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

Forgiven

2007

as Judge

4.7
Acting

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

Treasure Island

2007

as Captain Smolett

4.3
Acting

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

Outlaw

2007

as Barrister (uncredited)

5.4
Acting

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

Crusade in Jeans

2006

as Anselmus

5.8
Acting

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

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

2005

as Willie De Salis

6.7
Acting

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

A Life in Suitcases

2005

as Luper Authority

5.3
Acting

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

Mrs. Henderson Presents

2005

as Lord Cromer's Secretary

6.7
Acting

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

Dot.Kill

2005

as Happy Bob's Clerk

4.2
Acting

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

Strings

2004

as Agra

6.7
Acting

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

Being Julia

2004

as Rupert

6.5
Acting

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.

Monsieur N.

2003

as Adm. Cockburn

6.3
Acting

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

The Hours

2002

as Doctor

7.3
Acting

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

3.0
Acting

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

Don Quixote

2000

as 1st Monk

6.2
Acting

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

Plunkett & MacLeane

1999

as Judge Beresteade

6.1
Acting

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

An Ideal Husband

1999

as Oscar Wilde

6.5
Acting

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

Place Vendôme

1998

as De Beers Man

6.3
Acting

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

Dangerous Beauty

1998

as Bishop De la Torre

7.1
Acting

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

The Woodlanders

1998

as Percombe

5.1
Acting

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

Solomon

1997

as Hiram of Naphtali

6.6
Acting

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

Photographing Fairies

1997

as Cole

5.7
Acting

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

Into the Blue

1997

as Rex Cunningham

6.0
Acting

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

The Fifth Element

1997

as Hefty Man

7.6
Acting

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

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

1995

as Phillip Purcell

5.4
Acting

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

Immortal Beloved

1994

as Jakob Hotscevar

7.1
Acting

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

L.A. Rules The Pros & Cons of Breathing

1993

as The Investor

Acting

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

Candyman

1992

as Phillip Purcell

6.6
Acting

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

Savage House

N/A

as Lord Ashbury

Acting

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

Acting

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...