By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Michael Culver, the veteran British actor who portrayed the doomed Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back and a bigoted police inspector in David Lean’s A Passage ...

Michael Culver, the actor known for playing Captain Lorth Needa in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, among numerous other roles, has died at 85. News of Culver's passing came from an ...

Star Wars actor Michael Culver has died aged 85. The British actor played a small but famous role in Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back as Captain Needa, whose failure to capture the ...

Michael Culver, who starred in the 1980 “Star Wars” film, “Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back,” has died. He was 85. While his cause of death has yet to be determined ...

Michael Culver, veteran British actor who played one of Darth Vader’s most infamous victims in “The Empire Strikes Back,” has died at the age of 85, according to media reports. In the famed ...

died Feb. 27 Lucasfilm Ltd./Youtube Michael Culver in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Michael Culver, a British actor best known for his role in the 1980 Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, ...

Michael Culver has died ... for less than a minute of screen time in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, in which his character, Captain Needa, becomes the fatal recipient of one of Darth Vader ...

British actor Michael Culver, famed for his cameo role in iconic science fiction epic The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away aged 85. Culver's passing was announced by his agent on Wednesday ...

Michael Culver in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ (Lucasfilm) Culver performed several productions with Dundee Repertory Theatre from 1959 to 1961, following which he appeared in seven Shakespeare ...