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Michael Kustow Biography (1939-)

Born November 18, 1939, in London, England; son of Marcus and Sarah (Cohen) Kustow; married Elisabeth Leigh (divorced); married Orna Spector. Addresses: HOME--84 Etheldene Avenue, London N10, England.

Nationality

English

Birth Details

November 18, 1939

London, England

Famous Works

• Credits
• STAGE DEBUT--Duc de Buckingham, Les Trois Mousquetaires, Theatre NationalPopulaire, 1960.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• Edward II, Theatre National Populaire.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK
• Assistant director, Schweyk in World War II, Theatre Nationale Populaire.
• director, Punch and Judas (street pageant), Trafalgar Square, London, 1962.
• director, Has Washington Legs?, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1981.
• Also directed The Soldier's Tale, 1980; I Wonder, Institute of Contemporary Arts Theatre, London; plays of Bertolt Brecht, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin,Robert Lowell, Groucho Marx, Harold Pinter, Frederick Raphael, Woody Allen, Vaclav Havel, Peter Handke, Iris Murdoch, and a performance of the sonnets ofShakespeare, all with the National Theatre, London.
• Writings;STAGE
• (With Adrian Mitchell) Punch and Judas, Trafalgar Square, London, 1962.
• (with Adrian Henry) I Wonder, Institute of Contemporary Arts Theatre, London.
• (adaptor) Anatol, National Theatre, London, 1979.
• Writings;FILM
• (With Denis Cannan and Michael Scott) Tell Me Lies, Continental Distributing, 1968.
• Writings;OTHER
• Tank (autobiographical fiction), Jonathan Cape, 1975.
• One in Four (autobiographical chronicle of a year in arts television), Chatto and Windus, 1987.