He was a regular writer on the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O'Clock News, where he wrote many of the show's songs with Howard Goodall and many satirical sketches, often with Rowan Atkinson. He then began to write comedy for film and TV. As a result of this, Curtis was commissioned to co-write the BBC Radio 3 series The Atkinson People with Atkinson in 1978, which was transmitted in 1979. He appeared in the company's "After Eights" at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1976.Ĭollaborating with Rowan Atkinson in the Oxford Revue, he appeared alongside him at his breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe show. At the University of Oxford, Curtis met and began working with Rowan Atkinson, after they both joined the scriptwriting team of the Etceteras revue, part of the Experimental Theatre Club. He achieved a first-class Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. For a short period in the 1970s, Curtis lived in Warrington, Cheshire, where he attended Appleton Grammar School (now Bridgewater High School), before he won a scholarship to Harrow School, where, as head boy, he abolished fagging. Ĭurtis attended Papplewick School in Ascot, Berkshire (as did his younger brother Jamie). Curtis and his family lived in several different countries during his childhood, including Sweden and the Philippines, before moving to Great Britain when he was 11. His father was a Czechoslovakian refugee who moved to Australia when aged thirteen and became an executive at Unilever. Ĭurtis was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Curtis is the co-founder, with Sir Lenny Henry, of the British charity Comic Relief, which has raised in excess of £1 billion. In 2012, Curtis was one of the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork-the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt. In 2008, he was ranked number 12 in a list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture" compiled by The Telegraph. At the 2008 Britannia Awards, Curtis received the BAFTA Humanitarian Award for co-creating Comic Relief and for his contributions to other charitable causes. In 2007, Curtis received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award given to a filmmaker by the British Film Academy (BAFTA). His early career saw him write material for the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News and ITV's Spitting Image.
He is also known for the drama War Horse (2011), and for having co-written the hit sitcoms Blackadder, Mr. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), About Time (2013), and Yesterday (2019). Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956), is a British screenwriter, producer, and film director.
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