Name
Julian Curry
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-12-08
Deathday
2020-06-27 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Devon, England, UK
Biography
Julian Burnlee Curry was an English actor best known for playing Claude Erskine-Browne in ITV's legal comedy-drama Rumpole of the Bailey.
The son of William Burnlee Curry (1900-1962), headmaster of Dartington Hall School from 1930 to 1957, and Marjorie Graham (née McIldowie), Curry was educated at Dartington Hall School and King's College, Cambridge
Curry made his first television appearance in 1965 in an episode of the series For Whom the Bell Tolls. Other TV appearances include roles in Pride and Prejudice (1967), Softly, Softly (1968), Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Z-Cars (1965 & 1975), The Floater (1975), The Way of the World (1975), Brassneck (1975), The Glittering Prizes (1976), Trilby (1976), The Onedin Line (1976), Campion's Interview (1977), Rumpole of the Bailey (1977–1992), The Life of Shakespeare (1978), Prince Regent (1979), The Vanishing Army (1980), Psy Warriors (1981), A Fine Romance (1982), the BBC Television Shakespeare production of King Lear (1982), The New Statesman (1984), Three Up, Two Down (1985), Lytton's Diary (1985–86), Death of a Son (1989), Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Sherlock Holmes (1991), Thatcher: The Final Days (1991), Inspector Morse (1993), Bugs – Assassins Inc (1995), It Might Be You (1995), Kavanagh QC (1997), The Wyvern Mystery (2000), Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001), The Hunt (2001), Prince William (2002), Stig of the Dump (2002), Midsomer Murders (2004), The Brief (2005), and The Queen's Sister (2005)
Curry's film appearances included The Mini-Affair (1967), The Brontë Sisters (1979), Manions of America (1981), Escape to Victory (1981), The Missionary (1982), Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985), Fall From Grace (1994), Loch Ness (1996), Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), Seven Days to Live [de] (2000), and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).
Known For
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- 1998 Mysteries of Egypt as Carnarvon
- 1967 The Mini-Affair as Ronnie
- 1979 The Bronte Sisters as Mr. Smith
- 1999 Vanished! A Video Seance as Father
- 1985 Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend as Etienne
- 1988 Reasonable Force as Commissioner
- 1996 Rasputin as Dr. Lazovert
- 1988 Deadline as Stuart-Smith
- 2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow as Dr. Vargas
- 1989 Death of a Son as Prof. Ray Spector
- 1970 Hamlet as Horatio
- 2000 7 Days to Live as Prof. Ed Saunders
- 1975 The Way of the World as Petulant
- 1982 Bright Eyes as Charvier
- 1965 The Midas Plague as Edward
- 1975 The Saliva Milkshake as Rafferty
- 1997 Cause of Death as Dr. Blake
- 1979 Big Wheels and Sailor as Dave Adams
- 1982 The Missionary as Friend of Raggy Masterson
- 1996 Loch Ness as Englishman
- 1991 Thatcher: The Final Days as David Harris
- 1981 Psy-Warriors as Hooper
- 1978 The Vanishing Army as Symington
- 1982 King Lear as Duke of Cornwall
- 1981 Escape to Victory as Shurlock
- 1977 Gotcha / Campion's Interview as Campion
- 1975 The Floater as Jeremy Butler
- 1975 Brassneck
- 1987 Ghost Chase as Lawyer
- 1978 When the Actors Come as Count Botvay
- 1972 Peer Gynt as Bridegroom / Pen
- 2001 The Hunt as Gerard Stephens
- 1999 Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life as Mr. Justice Havers
- 2002 Prince William as Prince Philip
- 1995 Bugs ( 1 episode ) as Admiral
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Ronald Burgess
- 1987 Inspector Morse ( 1 episode ) as Alan Cartwright
- 1975 Rumpole of the Bailey ( 30 episodes ) as Claude Erskine-Brown
- 1984 Oxbridge Blues ( 1 episode ) as Tom
- 1984 Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Albert Shlessinger
- 1985 The New Statesman ( 2 episodes ) as Lecturer
- 1975 The Hanged Man ( 1 episode ) as Simon Hatchett
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Symington
- 2020 Truth Seekers ( 1 episode ) as Old Byron Berkeley
- 1985 Three Up, Two Down ( 1 episode ) as Gerald
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Bill Rochester
- 1989 Around the World in 80 Days ( 3 episodes ) as Wilson
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Commissioner
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Professor Ray Spector
- 1981 A Fine Romance ( 1 episode ) as Charles Payne
- 1981 The Manions of America ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Maitland
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Jeremy Butler
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Campion
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Hooper
- 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Tim Izzard
- 1967 Pride and Prejudice ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Collins
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Oronte
- 1977 BBC2 Play of the Week ( 1 episode ) as Count Botvay
- 1968 Nicholas Nickleby ( 2 episodes ) as Lenville
- 1980 Buccaneer ( 2 episodes ) as Lord Champlieu
- 1975 Rumpole of the Bailey ( 5 episodes ) as Claude Erskine Brown
- 1974 Churchill's People ( 1 episode ) as Hubert
- 1965 Out of the Unknown ( 1 episode ) as Edward
- 1973 Centre Play ( 1 episode ) as Raffety
- 1985 Lytton's Diary ( 2 episodes ) as Tim Beauchamp
- 1984 The Secret Servant ( 3 episodes ) as Sir Anthony Sladen
- 1978 Life Begins at Forty ( 2 episodes ) as The Vicar
- 1995 Kavanagh Q.C. ( 1 episode ) as Michael Faraday QC
