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Michael Craig (born Michael Francis Gregson; 27 January 1928) is a British actor, known for his work in film and television in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Craig was born in Poona, Maharashtra, British India, the son of Donald Gregson, a captain in the 3rd Indian Cavalry. He came to England with his family when aged three, and went to Canada when he was ten. At sixteen he joined the Merchant Navy. In 1949 he made his stage debut in Repertory at Farnham, Surrey. His stage appearances include the lead role in Trying at the Finborough Theatre in 2008.
He started his film career in 1950 as an extra, gaining his first speaking part in 1953 in Malta Story. Craig’s film appearances include: Campbell’s Kingdom (1957), The Silent Enemy (1958), Sapphire (1959), Doctor in Love (1960), The Iron Maiden (1962), Modesty Blaise (1966), Turkey Shoot (1982) and Appointment with Death (1988).
His television credits include Arthur of the Britons (1973), The Emigrants (1976), Rush (1976), The Professionals (1980), Shoestring (1980), Triangle (1981–83), Tales of the Unexpected (1982), Robin of Sherwood (1986), Doctor Who (in the serial Terror of the Vervoids 1986), the Australian series G. P. (1989–95), Brides of Christ (1991), Grass Roots (2000) and Always Greener (2003).
He is the father of Jessica Gregson, Michael and Stephen Gregson, brother of Richard Gregson and thus uncle of Natasha Gregson Wagner. In 2005 he released his autobiography “The Smallest Giant: An Actors Tale”.
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Michael Craig Biography / Wiki
| Name | Michael Craig |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Poona, Maharashtra, British India |
| Date of Birth | 1928-01-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 94 |
| Deathday |
Michael Craig Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Payroll | Johnny Mellors | 1961-01-01 | A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van… |
| Doctor in Love | Dr Richard Hare | 1960-07-12 | Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c… |
| Mysterious Island | Capt. Cyrus Harding | 1961-12-19 | During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They mus… |
| Ride a Wild Pony | James Ellison | 1975-11-02 | Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner’s herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an inseparab… |
| Rendezvous with Dishonor | Colonel Stephen Mallory | 1970-08-06 | In the wake of terrorist bombings, senseless assassinations and widespread destruction in Cyprus, the attempts of local government officials to negoti… |
| House of Secrets | Larry Ellis / Steve Chancellor (dec.) | 1956-10-23 | Police in Paris recruit an English ship’s officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them…. |
| Cone of Silence | Capt. Hugh Dallas | 1960-05-09 | A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for … |
| The Irishman | Paddy Doolan | 1978-02-28 | Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, t… |
| For Love | Alberto Reggiani | 1976-01-01 | A classical pianist falls in love with a friend’s young daughter…. |
| Life for Ruth | John Harris | 1962-09-06 | John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for … |
| A Pair of Briefs | Tony Stevens | 1962-03-01 | She’s new in chambers, and he’s a troublemaker. But what ‘is’ the true status of the old lady’s wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds fi… |
| Life In Emergency Ward 10 | Stephen Russell | 1959-04-01 | Life in Emergency Ward 10 is a 1959 film directed by Robert Day. It stars Michael Craig and Wilfrid Hyde-White. It was based on the television series … |
| Upstairs and Downstairs | Richard Barry | 1959-11-02 | On marrying the boss’s daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law’s advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-… |
| The Silent Enemy | Leading Seaman Knowles | 1958-03-04 | The Mediterranean, 1941/42 – Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to c… |
| The Fourth Victim | Arthur Anderson | 1971-03-10 | A man’s wife is found suspiciously drowned in their swimming pool and because his two previous wives also died strange deaths he is charged with murde… |
| Sapphire | Inspector Phil Learoyd | 1959-11-02 | Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspec… |
| Sandra | Andrew Dawson | 1965-09-15 | Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay … |
| The Iron Maiden | Jack Hopkins | 1963-06-07 | The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) i… |
| Stolen Hours | Dr. John Carmody | 1963-10-02 | A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor. A reworking of the 1939 Bette Davis film “Dark Victory”, director Daniel Petrie’s … |
| The Hotel in Amsterdam | 1971-01-02 | Three couples planning their secret weekend away are exposed…. | |
| Story of a Girl Alone | Luis | 1971-01-17 | A chronicle of the different reactions of a girl when she finds that her boyfriend decides to end their relationship…. |
| Nor the Moon by Night | Rusty | 1958-08-07 | When Alice Lang flies out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller she is met by his brother Rusty, who is initially opposed to the marriage. The tw… |
| Yield to the Night | Jim Lancaster | 1956-06-19 | Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row…. |
| Sea of Sand | Cpt Cotton | 1958-11-04 | A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North A… |
| Inn of the Damned | Paul Melford | 1975-11-13 | A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out…. |
| Turkey Shoot | Charles Thatcher | 1982-03-25 | In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the cam… |
| Star! | Sir Anthony Spencer | 1968-07-18 | Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness…. |
| The Angry Silence | Joe Wallace | 1960-03-10 | A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike…. |
| Campbell’s Kingdom | Boy Bladen | 1957-09-03 | Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits “Campbell’s Kingdom” in the Canadian Rockies on the d… |
| Brotherly Love | Douglas Dow | 1970-01-07 | In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O’Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot … |
| High Tide at Noon | Nils | 1957-04-30 | After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -… |
| No, My Darling Daughter | Thomas Barclay | 1961-08-22 | A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man…. |
| The Fourth Wish | Dr. Richardson | 1976-07-16 | The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes – and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal…. |
| Twinky | Daddy | 1970-01-06 | A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the … |
| Life at the Top | Mark | 1965-12-14 | Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But hi… |
| Eyewitness | Jay | 1956-08-14 | When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becom… |
| The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Estete | 1969-10-05 | The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds hi… |
| Modesty Blaise | Paul Hagan | 1966-05-01 | Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government … |
| A Town Called Bastard | Paco | 1971-10-27 | A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to t… |
| Conquered City | Captain Robert Elliott | 1962-12-05 | Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed i… |
| The Embezzler | Dr. Forrest | 1954-07-01 | Bank robber’s plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims…. |
| Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids | Commodore Travers | 1986-11-22 | As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer na… |
| The Vault of Horror | Maitland (segment 4 “Bargain in Death”) | 1973-03-16 | The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampi… |
| The Black Tent | Sheikh Faris | 1956-04-09 | During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief’s daughter. Sometime late… |
| Passage Home | Burton | 1955-03-17 | Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passe… |
| Hot Resort | Bo Bo | 1985-01-01 | Young guys on the make get a job at a resort hotel in the Caribbean…. |
| Appointment with Death | Lord Peel | 1988-04-15 | Emily Boynton, stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the … |
| The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord | 2008-09-30 | The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord was the umbrella title for a series of four 2|entertain documentaries. Each covered a different story within th… | |
| Svengali | Zou Zou | 1954-09-01 | A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer…. |
| The Lady with a Lamp | Wounded Soldier | 1951-09-22 | Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle)… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Fourth Wish | Writer | 1976-07-16 | The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes – and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal…. |
| The Killing of Angel Street | Screenplay | 1981-10-01 | Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on … |
| The Killing of Angel Street | Story | 1981-10-01 | Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on … |
| The Angry Silence | Screenplay | 1960-03-10 | A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike…. |
Other Info
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