Kit Culkin

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Kit Culkin
Image:Christopherculkin.jpg Kit Culkin, circa 1970.
Birth name	Christopher Cornelius Culkin
Born	December 06 1944 (age 63) New York, New York
Official site	www.kitculkin.com

Christopher "Kit" Culkin (born December 6 1944 in New York, New York) is a former Broadway performer. Best known to people across most all of the known world as that infamous scourge of Hollywood, "the stage father from hell". A title that was given to him by the press after a number of controversial decisions on behalf of his son Macaulay Culkin.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Stage Career 2.1 New York City stage. Including Broadway and Lincoln Center. 2.2 Off and Off Off Broadway Plays 2.3 The Early Years 3 Writings 4 External links

Biography

Christopher Culkin spent his youth in New York City, working on Broadway in theatre productions with legendary stars of the day such as Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, and Anthony Quinn. His brother, Terry, and sisters Bonnie and Candace, also worked in theatre and television, with Bonnie Bedelia Culkin going on to fame in films such as Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Presumed Innocent, Heart Like a Wheel, Salem’s Lot, and Gypsy Moths.

Kit credits one person for these early successes: his mother, Marian Wagner Culkin, who was their manager.

Kit is the father of Macaulay, Kieran, Rory, Christian, Shane, Quinn, and Dakota Culkin; three of his sons (Macaulay, Rory, and Kieran) have taken up acting.

At the time of Kit's mother's death (in 1964) Bonnie Bedelia was working on a soap opera and had plans to go out to Hollywood. Kit took his mother's death very hard and settled in their apartment alone with his father. He continued doing some Broadway productions, then went on to college, started his first family (which ended sadly) and then he went traveling America studying historical sites.

Kit was the sole manager of his acting children from the late 1980s to the mid 1990's. In just a few years the Culkin family went from extreme poverty to wealth. Macaulay became the first child in Hollywood to receive a million dollar salary for My Girl (1991). From 1995 to 1997 Kit was part of a child custody trial, and received a lot of negative press as a result of that. Macaulay's acting career however, never took off again after Kit quit being his manager.

Stage Career

New York City stage. Including Broadway and Lincoln Center.

• Hamlet (1964)

With: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake.
Director: John Gielgud.
Role: Player Queen.
Location: Lunt - Fontanne Theatre.

• The Physicists

With: Robert Shaw, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn.
Director: Peter Brook.
Role: Adolph-Friedrich.
Location: Martin Beck Theatre.

• Becket

With: Lawrence Olivier, Anthony Quinn.
Director: Peter Glenville.
Role: Prince Richard.
Location: St. James, Royale and Hudson Theatres

• The Nutcracker

With: the New York City Ballet Company.
Choreographed by George Balanchine.
Role: Nutcracker prince.
Location: State Theatre

• Street Scene

With: the New York City Opera Company.
Director: Julius Rudel.
Role: Charles Hilderbrand.
Location: State Theatre

• The Ballad of Baby Doe

With: Beverly Sills and the NY City Opera Company.
Director: Julius Rudel
Role: Cousin Jake
Location: State Theatre

Off and Off Off Broadway Plays

• The Cup Of Fury

Director: Stanley Brechner.
Role: Soviet Procurator.
Location: American Jewish Theatre

• Peril At End House

Director: Jude Schanzer.
Role: Terry Ord.
Location: Impossible Ragtime Theatre

• Ready For Teddy

Director: William McComb.
Role: Senator Edward Kennedy.
Location: Quaigh Theatre

• The Man Who Never Died

Director: Robert Mayberry.
Role: Martin Henderson.
Location: Jan Hus Playhouse

• Ethan Frome

Director: Alan Coleridge.
Role: The Traveller.
Location: Theatre at St. Clements

• Caligula

Director: Alan Gabor.
Role: The First Patrician.
Location: Fourth Street Theatre

• Romeo And Juliet

Director: Lawrence Philips.
Role: Lord Capulet.
Location: Bond Street Theatre

• Sleepwalkers

Director: Charlotte Durham.
Role: The Rapist.
Location: Waverly Showcase Theatre

• Carousel

Director: Jerome Mayer.
Role: Enoch Snow, Jr.
Location: Equity Library Theatre

• Johnny On The Spot

Director: Alvin Ross.
Role: Joe.
Location: East Side Settlement House

The Early Years

• Big Show Tonite

Location: East Side Settlement House - Variety Review.

• High Time

Location: East Side Settlement House - Variety Review.

• Looking Up

Location: East Side Settlement House - Variety Review.

Source: www.kitculkin.com

Writings

Over the last year Kit has released a collection of 3 writings:

• "Lost Boy: Michael Jackson By Kit Culkin"

• "I Don't Think So: Confessions Of The Stage Father From Hell"

• "Early Stages: A Memoir".

"Lost Boy" is a story about Michael Jackson, based on Kit's own experiences being a guest at Jackson's Neverland Ranch. "I Don't Think So" tells the story of the Culkin family's rise to stardom and his analysis of the problems that ultimately broke the family apart. "Early Stages" is about his own acting career on Broadway in the early 1960s, with Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton and many another thespian fellow. All of these are available for free.

Kit Culkin now lives in Oregon with his long time friend and partner, Jeanette Krylowski.

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