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The Right Honourable
The Lord Fellowes of
West Stafford
DL
Born
Julian Alexander Fellowes

(1949-08-17) 17 August 1949 (age 75)
Cairo, Egypt
EducationAmpleforth College
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
Spouse(s)Emma Joy Kitchener (m. 1990);
1 child (Peregrine)

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL (born 17 August 1949), known professionally as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, as well as a Conservative Life Peer.

Early life and education

Fellowes was born at Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes[1] (by his wife Olwen née Stuart-Jones),[2] a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie restored to his throne during World War II.[1]

His childhood home was in Wetherby Place, South Kensington,[3] and afterwards at Chiddingly in East Sussex, where he lived from August 1959 until November 1988 and where his parents are buried.

Fellowes was educated at several private schools in the UK: first at Wetherby School (Wetherby Place, South Kensington, London), then at St. Philip's, a Roman Catholic pre-preparatory school, also in Wetherby Place; and finally at the Catholic public school Ampleforth College. He read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with the degree of MA, and where he was a member of Footlights.[4] He studied further at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (London).

Career

Television

Fellowes moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and played a number of small TV roles for the next two years. He believed his breakthrough had come when he was considered to replace Hervé Villechaize as the butler on the TV series Fantasy Island, but the role was given to a much older British actor.[5]

After returning to Britain, Fellowes played the part of Kilwillie in the television series Monarch of the Glen. Other notable acting roles included the part of "Claud Seabrook" in the acclaimed 1996 BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North and the "2nd Duke of Richmond" in the BBC drama serial Aristocrats.

In 1991, he played "Neville Marsham" in For the Greater Good, again for the BBC, directed by Danny Boyle. He has twice notably portrayed George IV as the Prince Regent in the 1982 television version of The Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1996 adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Regiment & Major Dunnett in Sharpe's Rifles. He launched a new series on BBC One in 2004, Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder, which he wrote and introduced onscreen. He was the presenter of Never Mind the Full Stops, a panel-based gameshow broadcast on BBC Four from 2006 to 2007. He created the hugely successful and critically acclaimed period drama Downton Abbey for ITV1 in 2010.[6] He also wrote a new Titanic mini-series that was shown on ITV1 in March/April 2012.[7]

Film

Fellowes wrote the script for Gosford Park which won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 2002.[8] In late 2005, Fellowes made his directorial début with the film Separate Lies, for which he won the award for Best Directorial Début from the National Board of Review. [citation needed] In 2009, Momentum Pictures and Sony Pictures released The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, for which Fellowes wrote the original screenplay. Other screenwriting credits include Vanity Fair, The Tourist and From Time to Time, which he also directed, and which won Best Picture at the Chicago Children's Film Festival, the Youth Jury Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Picture at the Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome and the Young Jury Award at Cinemagic in Belfast.

Fellowes has continued his acting career while writing; for example, he unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Master of Lake-town in the 2012-2014 The Hobbit series.[8] Films Fellowes has appeared in include Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, Damage, Place Vendôme, and Tomorrow Never Dies.

Novels

Fellowes' novel Snobs was published in 2004. It focused on the social nuances of the upper class and concerned the marriage of an upper middle class girl to a peer. Snobs was a Sunday Times best seller. In 2009 he published the novel, Past Imperfect, also a Sunday Times best seller. It deals with the Débutante Season of 1968, comparing the world then to the world of 2008. [citation needed] He also wrote, under the pseudonym Rebecca Greville, several romantic novels in the 1970s.[9]

Theatre

As an actor, Fellowes appeared in several West End productions, including Samuel Taylor's A Touch of Spring, Alan Ayckbourn's Joking Apart and a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. As a writer, Fellowes penned the script to the current West End musical Mary Poppins, produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, which opened on Broadway in December 2006.

Writing credits

List of television, film and theatre credits
Title Year Medium Notes
Mary Poppins 2004 Theatre Adapted from the novels by P. L. Travers and the 1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson; screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
Gosford Park 2001 Film Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Vanity Fair 2004 Film Screenplay; based upon the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
Separate Lies 2005 Film Screenplay; based upon the novel by Nigel Balchin; Also Director
Piccadilly Jim 2004 Film Screenplay based on the novel by P G Wodehouse
The Young Victoria 2009 Film Original Screenplay
The Tourist 2010 Film Screenplay polish
From Time to Time 2009 Film Written by Fellowes, based upon the novel by Lucy M. Boston; Also Director
Julian Fellowes Investigates 2004 Television Writer and Creator; Also Actor
Downton Abbey 2010 Television Creator & Executive Producer
Writer:
*Series One, Episodes One to Three
*Series One, Episode Four (Written by Fellowes & Shelagh Stephenson)
*Series One, Episode Five
*Series One, Episode Six (Written by Fellowes & Tina Pepler)
*Series One, Episode Seven
*Series Two, Episodes One to Eight
*Series Two, Christmas Special
Titanic 2012 Television Writer of the four-part ITV1 produced miniseries.
Romeo and Juliet 2012 Film Screenplay; adapted from the play by William Shakespeare; Announced
Crooked House 2012 Film Script; Adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie

Parliament

On 12 January 2011, Fellowes was elevated to the Peerage by being created Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, of West Stafford in the County of Dorset, and was introduced in the House of Lords the following day,[10] where he sits on the Conservative benches.[11]

Fellowes' other interests

Fellowes is the Chairman of the RNIB appeal for Talking Books. He is a Vice-President of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust, Patron of the South West branch of Age UK, Patron of Changing Faces, of Living Paintings, of the Rainbow Trust, and of Breast Cancer Haven, as well as supporting charities concerned with the care of those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and other causes.

Fellowes is on the Appeal Council for the National Memorial Arboretum and he is also the Patron of Moviola, an initiative to facilitate rural cinema screenings in the West Country.[12]

Family

On 28 April 1990, Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener LVO (born 1963; a Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Michael of Kent),[13] the great-grandniece of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. Fellowes has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction that the proposals to change the rules of royal succession were not extended to peerages, which would have allowed his wife to succeed as 4th Countess Kitchener;[14] instead, the title became extinct on her uncle's death due to the lack of male heirs. On 9 May 2012 The Queen issued a Royal Warrant of Precedence granting The Lady Fellowes of West Stafford the same rank and title as a daughter of an Earl, as if her late father had survived his brother and therefore succeeded to the title.[15]

They have one son, Hon Peregrine Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes (born 1991). The family resides in Dorset [16] and on 15 October 1998 they changed their surname from Fellowes to Kitchener-Fellowes.[17][18]

Fellowes was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Dorset in 2009.[19] He is also lord of the manor of Tattershall in Lincolnshire[20] and President of the Society of Dorset Men.

His wife, Lady Fellowes of West Stafford, is story editor for Downton Abbey and works with charities.[21]

Arms

Coat of arms of Julian Fellowes
Crest
A Lion's Head erased Or murally crowned Argent charged with a Fesse dancettée Ermine
Escutcheon
Azure a Fesse dancettée Ermine between three Lions' Heads erased Or murally crowned Argent
Motto
Post Proelia Praemia

Styles and titles

  • Mr Julian Fellowes (1949–1998)
  • Mr Julian Kitchener-Fellowes (1998–2009)
  • Mr Julian Kitchener-Fellowes DL (2009–2011)
  • The Rt Hon the Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL (2011–present)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Segrave, Elisa (30 April 1999). "Obituary: Peregrine Fellowes". The Independent. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  2. ^ Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes - website thePeerage.com
  3. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/803e0930#b018888b
  4. ^ The Sunday Times profile of Julian Fellowes, p. 31 dated 21 November 2010
  5. ^ Witchel, Alex (8 September 2011). "Behind the Scenes With the Creator of 'Downton Abbey'". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
  6. ^ ITV – Downton Abbey
  7. ^ Starr, Michael (22 March 2011). "Titanic coming to TV". New York Post.
  8. ^ a b Gilbert, Matthew (2013-01-05). "Julian Fellowes and 'Downton Abbey'". Boston Globe. Retrieved January 05, 2013. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ "Fellowes, Julian (1950-)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  10. ^ House of Lords Minute of Proceedings of Thursday 13 January 2011.
  11. ^ Sweney, Mark (19 November 2010). "Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes to become Tory peer". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  12. ^ "Moviola News and Events". Moviola. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  13. ^ . thePeerage.com Emma Joy Kitchener http://thepeerage.com/p34578.htm#i345774 Emma Joy Kitchener. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ Julian Fellowes: inheritance laws denying my wife a title are outrageous
  15. ^ "London Gazette". 23 May 2012. p. 9975.
  16. ^ "Writer buys his own Gosford Park" (Daily Telegraph)
  17. ^ "No. 55307". The London Gazette. 10 November 1998.
  18. ^ Barber, Lynn (28 November 2004). "Jolly good Fellowes". The Observer. London. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  19. ^ "No. 58757". The London Gazette. 7 July 2008.
  20. ^ Profile of the Lord and Lady of the Manor at Tattersall with Thorpe.co.uk
  21. ^ Fellowes, Julian (2012-12). "The Most Happy Fellowes". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 9 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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