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name: "Roland Culver"
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born: "21 August 1900"
died: "1 March 1984"
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# Roland Culver

Actor. Born 21 August 1900 in Highgate, London, England, UK. Died 1 March 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 August 1900, Highgate, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 1 March 1984
- **Also known as:** Roland Joseph Culver, Роланд Калвер, Роданд Джозеф Калвер
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q458755, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191745/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9926

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp*](https://film.one/film/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp.md) (91)

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## Biography

Roland Culver was an English stage, film and television actor. After Highgate School he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his stage debut in 1925 with the Hull Repertory Theatre. He appeared regularly in the West End from the 1930s.

His film roles included Colonel Betteridge in *The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp* (1943), Eliot Foley in *Dead of Night* (1945), and the Foreign Secretary in *Thunderball* (1965). He also worked in television, appearing in series such as *The Avengers* (1961) and *The Persuaders!* (1971). He was awarded an OBE in 1980 for services to drama and retired in 1983.

Culver was married first to Daphne Rye and then to Nan Hopkins. He died on 1 March 1984 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp* (1943), Fi1m 91, as Col. Betteridge — [page](https://film.one/film/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp.md)

## Also known for

- *Thunderball* (1965), Foreign Secretary
- *Dead of Night* (1945), Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- *The Legend of Hell House* (1973), Mr. Rudolph Deutsch
- *Bonjour Tristesse* (1958), Mr. Lombard
- *The Persuaders!* (1971), Duke of Caith
- *The MacKintosh Man* (1973), The Judge
- *Night Train to Munich* (1940), Roberts
- *Britannia Hospital* (1982), General Wetherby

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