Michael Craze

Michael Craze was born on Nov 29, 1942 in UK. Michael Craze's big-screen debut came with Spare the Rod directed by Leslie Norman in 1961, strarring Thatcher (uncredited). Michael Craze is known for Intimate Strangers directed by Jim Goddard, Anthony Bate stars as Harry Paynter and Patricia Lawrence as Joan Paynter. The upcoming new tvshow Michael Craze plays is The Diary of Anne Frank - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 04, 1987.

Michael Craze was born on 29 November 1942 in Cornwall and got into acting quite by chance as, at the age of twelve, he discovered through Boy Scout Gang Shows that he had a perfect boy soprano voice. This led him to win parts in "The King and I" and "Plain and Fancy", both at Drury Lane, and "Damn Yankees" at the Coliseum. Once he had left school, he went into repertory and got into TV through his agent. His first televison was a show called "Family Solicitor" for Granada which was followed for Granada which was followed, amongst others, by a part in ABC TV's 1960 series "Target Luna" (written by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Price and produced by Sydney Newman). When he was twenty Michael wrote, directed and acted in a film called "The Golden Head" which won an award at the Commonwealth Film Festival in Cardiff. Following Doctor Who, Michael worked on several ITV productions, including one episode (The Last Visitor) of Hammer Films' first TV series "Journey to the Unknown" in 1968. In the eighties Michael acted only occasionally and also managed a pub.