Richard Curtis
Highest Rated: 92% Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Lowest Rated: 27% Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Birthday: Nov 8, 1956
Birthplace: Wellington, New Zealand
Best known as the screenwriter of the popular British romantic comedies "Four Weddings and A Funeral" (1994) and "Notting Hill" (1999), Richard Curtis has also worked with some of England's finest comedians and biggest stars, his most frequent collaborator being fellow Oxford alumnus Rowan Atkinson. A New Zealander by birth who lived in various locales due to his father's business commitments, Curtis attended Oxford University's Christ Church College, where he majored in English and met graduate student Atkinson. The two quickly became creative partners, leading to a hit performance at 1979's Edinburgh Festival that brought the pair notice and an offer for the BBC-2 series "Not the Nine O'Clock News." Written by Curtis and Atkinson and starring Atkinson alongside a cast including future director Mel Smith, this irreverent and influential sketch comedy program ran from 1979 to 1982. In 1983, Curtis and Atkinson teamed up to write the 15th Century set comedy "The Black Adder," starring Atkinson as an unsavory son of King Richard IV. The series would be reborn in 1986, with co-writer Ben Elton collaborating with Curtis as "Blackadder II," starring Atkinson alongside Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth I as a lord of her court, a direct descendant of the original series' subject, and equally as slimy and scheming. The following year, Elton and Curtis created "Black Adder the Third," this time with Atkinson playing the butler of Hugh Laurie's Prince Regent in a French Revolution-era England. 1988's special "Black Adder's Christmas Carol" featured Atkinson as old Ebenezer, alongside such British luminaries as Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry as well as series veterans Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie and Miranda Richardson. In 1989, Atkinson and company completed the (to date) last installment, "Blackadder Goes Forth." Also penned by Elton and Curtis, this chapter starred Captain Blackadder, battling on the frontlines of northern France during World War I.
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Richard Curtis
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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31% |
|
Genie |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2023 |
80% | No Score Yet | We Are Still Here |
Director, Writer |
- | 2022 |
No Score Yet |
|
Happy Birthday Mr Bean | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
86% |
|
Rising Phoenix | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
63% |
|
Yesterday |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$73.2M | 2019 |
79% |
|
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Executive Producer | $120.6M | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
|
Red Nose Day Actually | Screenwriter | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | British Sitcom - 60 Years Of Laughing At Ourselves | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet |
|
Esio Trot | Producer | - | 2015 |
66% |
|
Trash | Screenwriter | $10.2K | 2014 |
71% |
|
About Time |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$15.3M | 2013 |
56% |
|
Mary and Martha | Screenwriter | - | 2013 |
75% |
|
War Horse | Screenwriter | $79.9M | 2011 |
60% |
|
Pirate Radio |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$8.0M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Writer | - | 2008 |
51% |
|
Mr. Bean's Holiday | Executive Producer | $32.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Girl in the Café |
Executive Producer, Writer |
- | 2005 |
27% |
|
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | Screenwriter | $40.2M | 2004 |
64% |
|
Love Actually |
Director, Writer, Executive Producer |
$60.1M | 2003 |
80% |
|
Bridget Jones's Diary | Writer | $71.5M | 2001 |
84% |
|
Notting Hill |
Writer, Executive Producer |
$116.1M | 1999 |
43% |
|
Bean |
Writer, Executive Producer |
$45.3M | 1997 |
92% |
|
Four Weddings and a Funeral |
Writer, Co-Executive Producer |
$49.3M | 1994 |
86% |
|
The Tall Guy | Screenwriter | $91.1K | 1989 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portrait Artist of the Year | Guest | 2023 |
43% | 80% | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Executive Producer | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2019 |
90% | 64% | Doctor Who | Writer | 2010 2014-2015 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Doctor Who Confidential | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Executive Producer | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Vicar of Dibley | Writer | 1994 1996-2000 |
100% | 94% | Mr. Bean | Writer | 1990-1992 1995 |
85% | 90% | Blackadder the Third | Writer | 1983 1986-1987 1989 |