
Julian Curry
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.294 |
Birthday | 1937-12-08 |
Place of Birth | Devon, England, UK |
Also Known As | Julian Burnlee Curry, |

1998

Mysteries of Egypt
5.6/7
Filmed in IMAX, a young girl questions her grandfather about the alleged curse of King Tutankhamen. His response takes us up to the source of the nour...
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Mysteries of Egypt

1967

The Mini-Affair
0/0
A leading pop star is kidnapped in swinging London.
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The Mini-Affair

1979

The Bronte Sisters
5.8/37
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters wri...
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The Bronte Sisters

1999

Vanished! A Video Seance
0/0
Vanished! A Video Seance is a true story. In 1932 elderly parents and their young daughter came to live in isolation on a windswept hill on the west c...
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Vanished! A Video Seance

1985

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
5.2/66
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

1988

Reasonable Force
0/0
In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies af...
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Reasonable Force

1996

Rasputin
6.5/60
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of...
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Rasputin

1988

Deadline
5.8/4
In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a poli...
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Deadline

2004

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
5.899/1263
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has...
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

1989

Death of a Son
6/1
The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.
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Death of a Son

1970

Hamlet
0/0
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether...
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Hamlet

2000

Seven Days to Live
5.4/42
A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.
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Seven Days to Live

1975

The Way of the World
0/0
In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of Millamant's aunt, Lady Wi...
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The Way of the World

1982

Bright Eyes
0/0
1999: Examination of family life and political ideals in a war-ravaged future Europe, compared and contrasted with ’60s equivalents.
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Bright Eyes

1965

The Midas Plague
0/0
The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they...
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The Midas Plague

1975

The Saliva Milkshake
0/0
Howard Brenton's play, written for television, examines terrorism and the state's complex relationship with it and language surrounding it.
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The Saliva Milkshake

1997

Cause of Death
0/0
A QED drama special, based upon a real-life case of medical negligence. Within four days of being admitted to hospital with minor injuries, Ray Peters...
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Cause of Death

1979

Big Wheels and Sailor
0/0
Children of long distance lorry drivers, travelling with their fathers, become involved in attempted hijacking.
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Big Wheels and Sailor

1982

The Missionary
5.6/46
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...
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The Missionary

1996

Loch Ness
5.6/111
Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, i...
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Loch Ness

1991

Thatcher: The Final Days
6.5/2
The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.
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Thatcher: The Final Days

1981

Psy-Warriors
1/1
Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?
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Psy-Warriors

1978

The Vanishing Army
0/0
"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right...
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The Vanishing Army

1982

King Lear
6/5
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear

1981

Escape to Victory
6.9/927
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners...
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Escape to Victory

1977

Gotcha / Campion's Interview
0/0
Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a motor-b...
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Gotcha / Campion's Interview

1975

The Floater
0/0
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
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The Floater

1975

Brassneck
0/0
Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property spe...
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Brassneck

1987

Ghost Chase
5/29
In an old Hollywood mansion, the spirit of an old family retainer inhabits an old grandfather clock. When a movie company uses the mansion for a film,...
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Ghost Chase

1978

When the Actors Come
0/0
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....
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