Michael Croft

Michael Croft
OBE
Born
John Michael Croft

8 March 1922
Hengoed, Shropshire, England
Died15 November 1986 (aged 64)
Kentish Town, London, England

John Michael Croft (8 March 1922 – 15 November 1986) was an English actor, schoolteacher, and writer. Based upon his own experience of supply teaching in tough secondary schools, he wrote the controversial 1954 anti-corporal punishment novel Spare the Rod, which was later released as a film. He founded the National Youth Theatre in 1956 with Kenneth Spring. Since 2017, former students of the National Youth Theatre have come forward with allegations of historic abuse against Croft.

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