Julian Fellowes as Winston Churchill
Julian Fellowes (born August 17, 1949) is an actor, writer, and politician who portrayed Winston Churchill in "London, May 1916" (later edited into Love's Sweet Song).
Since appearing on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Fellowes has become best known as the creator and primary writer of the television series Downton Abbey and its feature film continuations of the same name. His other screenwriting credits are often for period dramas as well, including the television series Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (with Michael Sheard and Geoffrey Whitehead), Belgravia, and The Gilded Age; the miniseries Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince and the Pauper, Titanic (with Toby Jones), Doctor Thorne, and The English Game; and the feature films Gosford Park, Vanity Fair (with Jim Broadbent and Jonathan Phillips), Piccadilly Jim (with Selina Giles), Separate Lies (which he also directed, with John Warnaby), The Young Victoria (with Jim Broadbent, Julian Glover, and Michael Maloney), From Time to Time (which he also directed, with Timothy Spall), The Tourist (with Igor Jijikine and Renato Scarpa), a 2013 adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, Crooked House (with Roger Ashton-Griffiths), and The Chaperone.
As an actor, additional television credits by Fellowes include guest roles on The Duchess of Duke Street (with Freddie Jones), Dempsey and Makepeace (with Roy Alon and Stefan Kalipha), Seal Morning (in an episode co-written by Rosemary Anne Sisson, who wrote "London, May 1916"), Knights of God (with Michael Sheard), Casualty (with Oliver Ford Davies and Tip Tipping), Rumpole of the Bailey (with Julian Glover), The Governor (with Anthony Higgins and Paul Kynman), the anthology series Screen Two (in one segment with Mac McDonald and another with Douglas Henshall, Bill Thomas, Bill Wallis, and Geoffrey Whitehead), and Kavanagh QC (with Oliver Ford Davies and Kenneth Cranham), along with a recurring role on Monarch of the Glen (in episodes with Paul Freeman and Lloyd Owen).
Fellowes has also appeared in the miniseries My Son, My Son (with Patrick Ryecart), Little Sir Nicholas (with Philip Whitchurch), For the Greater Good (with Frederick Treves, who also appeared in "London, May 1916", and Jeff Nuttall), To Be the Best (with Peter Dennis, Chris Jenkinson, and Bill Reimbold), Martin Chuzzlewit (with Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Peter-Hugo Daly, Jimmy Gardner, Sam Kelly, Steve Nicolson, William Roberts, and Elizabeth Spriggs), The Final Cut (with Isla Blair, Paul Freeman, Nickolas Grace, Derek Lea, Leon Lissek, Joseph Long, Kevork Malikyan, Bunny May, and Andrew Seear), Our Friends in the North (with Daniel Craig, Leon Lissek, Nicholas Selby, Guy Standeven, and Danny Webb), and Aristocrats (with Toby Jones).
Television movies in which Fellowes has appeared include The Bunker (with George Corraface, Patrick Floersheim, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Kitchen, and Michael Sheard), Peter and Paul (with Vernon Dobtcheff, Kevork Malikyan, and John Rhys-Davies), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess, Swallows and Amazons Forever: Coot Club (with Colin Baker), Florence Nightingale (with Wolf Kahler, Derek Lyons, and Guy Standeven), Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value, Goldeneye (written by Reg Gadney about the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, with Lynsey Baxter, Joseph Long, and Patrick Ryecart), The Treaty (in which he also portrayed Winston Churchill, with Dave Duffy and Anna Manahan), and Dirty Tricks (with Matt Bardock).
His feature film acting credits include Full Circle, Priest of Love (with Wolf Kahler, Andrew McCulloch, Mellan Mitchell, and Roger Sloman), Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (with Eddie Tagoe), Damage (written by David Hare, with Jeff Nuttall and Barry Stearn), Shadowlands (with Pauline Melville, who also appeared in "London, May 1916", as well as Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Julian Firth, Peter Firth, Ninka Scott, Andrew Seear, Alan Talbot, and John Wood), Jane Eyre (with Sheila Burrell and John Wood), Regeneration (directed by Gillies MacKinnon), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (with Michael Byrne, Romo Gorrara, Terry Richards, Rocky Taylor, and Pip Torrens), Place Vendôme (with Bernard Fresson), and Shergar (with Dave Duffy, George Jackos, and Jimmy Keogh).
Upon being elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom and introduced to the House of Lords in 2011, Fellowes was created Baron Fellowes of West Stafford and was then styled The Right Honourable Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, DL.
