Cast & creator
Julian Curry
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Play for Today, Play for Today
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).
Also known as: Julian Burnlee Curry
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1965–2020 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (68)
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Midsomer Murders
Ronald Burgess
1997
Play for Today
Symington
1970Play for Today
Bill Rochester
1970Play for Today
Jeremy Butler
1970Play for Today
Campion
1970Play for Today
Hooper
1970
Screen Two
Commissioner
1985Screen Two
Professor Ray Spector
1985
BBC Play of the Month
Oronte
1965
Sherlock Holmes
Albert Shlessinger
1984
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Dr. Tim Izzard
1965
Inspector Morse
Alan Cartwright
1987
Rumpole of the Bailey
Claude Erskine-Brown
1975Rumpole of the Bailey
Claude Erskine Brown
1975
Centre Play
Raffety
1973
BBC2 Play of the Week
Count Botvay
1977
Churchill's People
Hubert
1974
Out of the Unknown
Edward
1965
Kavanagh Q.C.
Michael Faraday QC
1995
Bugs
Admiral
1995
Lytton's Diary
Tim Beauchamp
1985
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Dr. Vargas
2004
Truth Seekers
Old Byron Berkeley
2020
Around the World in 80 Days
Wilson
1989
Escape to Victory
Shurlock
1981
Oxbridge Blues
Tom
1984
Life Begins at Forty
The Vicar
1978
Three Up, Two Down
Gerald
1985
A Fine Romance
Charles Payne
1981
Nicholas Nickleby
Lenville
1968The Hanged Man
Simon Hatchett
1975
The Manions of America
Colonel Maitland
1981Buccaneer
Lord Champlieu
1980
The Secret Servant
Sir Anthony Sladen
1984
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Collins
1967
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Etienne
1985
Loch Ness
Englishman
1996
The Bronte Sisters
Mr. Smith
1979
7 Days to Live
Prof. Ed Saunders
2000
Thatcher: The Final Days
David Harris
1991The Hunt
Gerard Stephens
2001
Brassneck
1975
Peer Gynt
Bridegroom / Pen
1972Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life
Mr. Justice Havers
1999The New Statesman
Lecturer
1985
Ghost Chase
Lawyer
1987
When the Actors Come
Count Botvay
1978
Rasputin
Dr. Lazovert
1996
The Floater
Jeremy Butler
1975
The Vanishing Army
Symington
1978
The Missionary
Friend of Raggy Masterson
1982
King Lear
Duke of Cornwall
1982
Death of a Son
Prof. Ray Spector
1989
Gotcha / Campion's Interview
Campion
1977
The Way of the World
Petulant
1975
Big Wheels and Sailor
Dave Adams
1979
Deadline
Stuart-Smith
1988
Prince William
Prince Philip
2002Reasonable Force
Commissioner
1988
Vanished! A Video Seance
Father
1999
Bright Eyes
Charvier
1982
The Saliva Milkshake
Rafferty
1975
The Midas Plague
Edward
1965
Mysteries of Egypt
Carnarvon
1998
The Mini-Affair
Ronnie
1967
Psy-Warriors
Hooper
1981
Cause of Death
Dr. Blake
1997
Hamlet
Horatio
1970