The son of a teacher and an electrical engineer, Bulcock was born Philip Garry Pickup in Jericho, Bury but was raised by his mother and step-father in the Rossendale Valley and Poole changing schools repeatedly due to frequent re-location. He was a student at both Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and Poole Grammar School before moving to London to attend drama school.
Bulcock has spent over a decade collaborating with director Nic Saunders on both the feature film Queen of the Redwood Mountains in which he also plays the role of the young John Anderson and a quaternary of short films based on works of the Beat Generation poets;[15][16]Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Michael McClure.[17] He is working with writer, producer and director Robert Valentine[18] to adapt Valentine's film Liar's Dice[19] into a stage play.[citation needed] Philip's own directorial debut is the short film Everybody Knows My Name[20] based on the song of the same name written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe. The film features the actors who played The Four Seasons in the original cast of the London production of Jersey Boys, Ryan Molloy, Stephen Ashfield, Glenn Carter and Bulcock himself.
Personal life
Philip married the actress Annabel Wright in Los Angeles in October 2011.[21] They met while filming 40 episodes of the Channel 5 'faction' series Hanrahan Investigates, co-starring the investigative journalist and TV producer, Will Hanrahan. Together they have two sons Otis and Orson. Philip also has a son, Jordan, from a previous relationship.