Mark Cullingham

Mark Cullingham, TV and film director, was born in Windsor, UK, on 14 September 1941 to Mollie and Gordon Cullingham who had come to Windsor two years earlier where his father took up an appointment with the local corporation. Mark was educated at Windsor Grammar School and Oxford University where he was closely involved with the 'OUDS', taking 'Romeo & Juliet' to the Minack Theatre in Cornwall and then on to Israel. In the 1960s he worked with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre and Jacques Charon from the Comedie Francaise during a production of 'A Flea in Her Ear'. He later assisted at the inaugural productions of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, UK, with Michael Redgrave and Ingrid Bergman, and also spent a period at Leatherhead. He later became involved with TV direction and was responsible for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for Scottish Television, Matilda's England with Anna Calder-Marshall for the BBC and a remarkable production of 'Medea' for John F. Kennedy Center f