Julian Curry has extensive stage credits, including leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and in the West End. He has acted in twenty-one of Shakespeare’s plays. Other highlights include Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Shaw’s Back to Methuselah, Osborne’s The Entertainer, Miller’s The Crucible, Beckett’s Company and Krapp’s Last Tape, Bernhard’s Elizabeth II and Eve of Retirement, and the two musicals Lust and Love.
Julian is well known as Claude Erskine-Brown in the popular television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Numerous other TV credits include Inspector Morse, Sherlock Holmes, The Misanthrope, King Lear, Kavanagh QC, The Wyvern Mystery, A Fine Romance and Midsomer Murders. Among many movies are The Missionary, Fall from Grace, Rasputin, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Escape to Victory (starring Pelé).
Julian holds a Diploma from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust, and was for some years a member of the Circle of Wine Writers. His one-man entertainment Hic! or The Entire History of Wine (abridged) has been performed over a hundred and fifty times, from Hong Kong to Bermuda to San Francisco, and sold out as a cartoon-illustrated book. He has also written and recorded A Guide to Wine for Naxos Audiobooks.