M.R. Kukrit also excelled in the field of the arts. Because of his family background his intensive readings and his way of life. He become one of the leading authorities on traditional Thai culture and a respected amateur performer in classical dance drama. During the peak of the influx of western cultural influences in the 1960s M.R. Kukrit gathered the students of Thammasat University into Khon Thammasat Troupe. Khon being the highest form of Dance, Drama in Thai Ciassical Dramatic Arts. The main object of khon Thammasat, which still functions to this day, was not to produce professional dancers but to create a new generation of intelligent audience which M.R. Kukrit believed to be the only way to keep tradition alive. M.R .Kukrit was also an author and actor of modern stage and television plays. He was invited to act opposite Marlon Brando in a full– length Hollywood film: Ugly American which was a skit on Southeast Asian and US polities.