Julian Fellowes

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Julian Fellowes (2014)

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born August 17, 1949 in Cairo , Egypt ) is a British film actor , screenwriter and novelist and member of the British House of Lords .

Life

Julian Fellowes was born in Cairo, the youngest of five sons of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes and his wife Olwen Stuart-Jones. His parents, diplomats by profession, among others helped the Emperor of Ethiopia , Haile Selassie , who was overthrown by Benito Mussolini , back on his throne. Julian's brothers include the actor and author David Fellowes and Rory Fellowes , who also works in the field of visual effects in the film industry. The family belongs to the British aristocracy, ancestors include Sir James Fellowes, a doctor on the staff of King George III. , and Sir Thomas Fellowes, an admiral who served under Nelson , and Lord Kitchener , the British Field Marshal and Secretary of War .

Shortly after Julian's birth, the family returned to England, where Fellowes was a student at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire and a student at Magdalene College in Cambridge . He also studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art .

He occasionally financed his livelihood by writing historical romances ( bodice-rippers ) under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville , which are primarily aimed at a female audience and which, in retrospect, he regards as a finger exercise for his later scripts and novels. Fellowes' acting career began in mostly British film and television productions. In 1981 he stood in front of the camera in Der Bunker as the German Air Force adjutant Nicolaus von Below , and in the same year in the Bible adaptation Petrus and Paulus as the Roman emperor Nero . In 1997 he played the British Defense Secretary in James Bond 007 - Tomorrow Never Dies .

Fellowes has also made a name for himself as a screenwriter and film director. In the mid-1990s, for example, he wrote the TV miniseries Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Prince and the Pauper , which were successfully filmed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). His best-known script to date is the feature film Gosford Park, produced in 2001 . In 2002 Fellowes not only received the Oscar in the category Best Original Screenplay , but was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award .

In 2005 Fellowes made his debut as a film director with the drama Separate Lies, and in 2009 as a television director with the children's book adaptation From Time to Time . In 2010 Fellowes designed the series Downton Abbey (2010–2015). The story of the English aristocratic family Crawley and the eponymous family seat at the beginning of the 20th century was a great critical success and was awarded four Emmys , including Fellowes as best screenwriter. Fellowes is also responsible for the script for the 2019 feature film Downton Abbey , which continues the series.

His first novel Snobs was published in 2004, followed in 2008 by Past Imperfect (A Class of Its Own ), in which he ironically and melancholy describes the world, the rituals and views of the English nobility in the 19th and late 20th centuries.

On January 13, 2011, Fellowes was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Fellowes of West Stafford , of West Stafford in the County of Dorset and has since been a member of the British House of Lords for the Conservative Party .

Julian Fellowes has been married to Emma Kitchener-Fellowes, a lady-in-waiting of HRH Princess Michael of Kent , b. Freiin v. Reibnitz . In 1991 their son Peregrine Kitchener-Fellowes was born.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Screenwriter

Director

Novels

  • Snobs. A novel. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004
Snobs . German translation Maria Andreas. Munich: Bertelsmann 2006. ISBN 3-570-00895-9
  • Past Imperfect. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008.
In a class of its own. Munich: Bertelsmann 2011. ISBN 978-3-570-10015-8
  • Belgravia . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2016.
Belgavia. Time of fate. Novel. Translation Maria Andreas. Munich: Bertelsmann 2016. ISBN 978-3-570-10324-1

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Beauclerk Dewar (ed.), Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain. The Kingdom in Scotland , 19th Edition, Vol. 1, 2001, pp. 522-525.
  2. ^ Lynn Barger: Jolly Good Fellowes. The Observer, November 28, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Fellowes, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kitchener-Fellowes, Julian Alexander, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film actor, screenwriter, novelist and life peer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt