Ian McCulloch

Ian McCulloch is a Scottish actor known for his lead role as Greg Preston in the television drama Survivors and for the Italian horror films he made in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Born in Glasgow in 1939, he served in the British Army before studying at Oxford University and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his debut with the company in 1962 and appeared in a West End production of Richard III in 1964, the same year he played Captain Macheath in The Beggar's Opera for the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. On the big screen he took supporting roles in Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Cromwell (1970), and later starred in Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) and Contamination (1980). His television guest appearances include Colditz, Secret Army, and The Professionals, and he returned to the stage as Martin Dysart in Equus at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.