cartoonist, actor and scriptwriter, brother of actor and artist Max Cullen, began as an
ACP press artist on the
Telegraph for two years; he also contributed to Sydney’s
A.M. as a freelance. Then he moved into TV. He was art director at
ATN (channel 7) for two years, at Crawford Productions as a set designer for three years, then a documentary writer and director including a TV series on dental health. He wrote the script for the 1982 film
The Man from Snowy River. For a time he also worked as a press artist on the
Sydney Morning Herald. Cullen also worked on
Kings Cross Whisper during the 1960s.
A joke cartoon signed 'Cullen’, published in the Bulletin on 16 October 1953 (original ML Px*D459/114), shows a newspaper seller of the 'Daily Whirl’ newspaper with a poster advertising ’78 pages of comics, features and fiction’ and a 'special 2 page news supplement’ (included S.H. Ervin b/w exhibition 1999).
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
