Richard Curtis
(1956-), Screenwriter and film producerRichard Whalley Anthony Curtis
Sitter in 3 portraits
Screenwriter. Curtis studied English at Christ Church College, Oxford, where he met Rowan Atkinson, with whom he worked on the Blackadder television series (1983-9) and Mr Bean (1990-5). He achieved major success with the films Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999) and Love Actually (2003). His adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency is due for release in 2008.
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 27 July 1981
NPG P1867
by Trevor Leighton
bromide print, circa 1998
NPG x128664
by Harry Borden
chromogenic print, 17 June 2005
NPG x128631
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jude de angulo
08 October 2022, 01:56
From a critical literary analysis of Blackadder III it is possible to deduce that Mr Curtis studied late 18th Century and early 19th British drama and literature whilst at Oxford University. The minor characters of Lord Smedley being amalgams of Edward Smedley, John Henry Newman and Arianna Huffington,( nee Stassinopoulou).. David Keanrick is of course David Garrick & William Kenrick, as well as being partly John Webster. Enoch Mossop, whilst obviously a parody of Terence Stamp is also John Webster ( or one of his many collaborators) as well as being Alexander Pope, especially in his role as Enoch Mordent in the play The Dutiful Daughter. Lord Topper, is of course Bernard 'Taper'' Levin ( lover of Stassinopoulou, and like Terry Stamp, a devotee of the Indian guru Rajneesh....hence both wear imitation mock Rajneeshee malas( ie necklaces). Blackadder III erases the Irish ethnicity of the real and longest serving of the Regent's butler Edmund Nagle, as well as the Irishman the Duke of Wellington, all the 4 characters represented as imitation devotees of Rajneesh end up dead, this is all very ironic as Curtis family, like his co author Elton, are Jewish refugees from similar ethnic erasure and religious extermination by the Nazis.