Joseph Culp’s film credits include leading roles in Alan J. Pakula’s Dream Lover, Monte Hellman’s Iguana, The Arrival, Chase Morran, The Secret Life Of Houses , and Maria Novaro’s El Jardin del Eden. He is the first actor ever to play the infamous Dr. Doom in the first film version of Marvel Comic’s The Fantastic Four. He was featured in HBO’s Full Eclipse, the noir thriller Innocents, Ron Howard’s Apollo 13, and Mario Van Peebles’ Panther and Baadasssss. His many television appearances include ER, Deep Space Nine and the hit series Mad Men. He starred in the award-winning comedy Cyxork VII, and co-starred with Richard Thomas in Hallmark's Wild Hearts. He most recently appeared in Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen’s cold-war romance Icekiss.

Joseph won international critical acclaim for his performance as the starving writer in the award-winning film Hunger, an adaptation of Nobel winner Knut Hamsun’s novel, which he produced with director Maria Giese and which featured his father, veteran actor Robert Culp. He recently co-produced and starred in the investigative drama, The Reflecting Pool, the first narrative feature to challenge the official version of the 9/11 attacks.

On Stage

Active in theatre for many years, Joseph has performed in numerous plays in both New York and Los Angeles, including The Actor’s Studio, HB Playwrights, and Theatre for the New City. He received a Los Angeles Drama-Logue award for his performance (as a rebel Irish coal miner) in Jason Miller’s Nobody Hears a Broken Drum and starred in the New York stage premiere of Foul Shots by Raymond J. Barry.

Joseph is the founder and artistic director of the LA-Based Walking Theatre Group, integrating theatre, film and transpersonal work for actors, writers and directors. As a director his productions with the group include, A Wilder Evening - Six Short Works by Thornton Wilder, Franz Kafka’s The Judgment and In The Penal Colony, and Reclamation. His musical play "The Hound - An American Poem" will be performed by the Walking Theatre Group and is currently in development at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California.