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Julian Wadham
Julian Wadham
Born	Julian Neil Rohan Wadham; 7 August 1958 (age 66); Ware, Hertfordshire, England
Education	Ampleforth College; Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present

Julian Neil Rohan Wadham (born 7 August 1958) is an English actor of stage, film and television.

Early life

The third son of Rohan Nicholas Wadham DFC and Juliana Wadham (née Macdonald Walker), Wadham was educated at Ampleforth College and the Central School of Speech and Drama.^[1]^[2]

Career

Wadham's theatre work includes playing Barclay (soon after leaving the Central School) in the original West End production of Julian Mitchell's Another Country at the Queens Theatre with Kenneth Branagh and fellow Old Amplefordian Rupert Everett. In 2014, he played Vaughan Cunningham, a visitor to the school, in the Trafalgar Studio revival of the play.^[3]

For the English Stage Company at the Royal Court he was directed by Max Stafford-Clark in Falkland Sound, as Lieutenant David Tinker RN (with Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville and Marion Bailey), as Captain Plume in George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, as Lt. Ralph Clark in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, and as Jake in Caryl Churchill's Serious Money (with Lesley Manville, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman and Meera Syal).^{[citation needed]}

For director Jeremy Herrin he appeared with Lindsay Duncan, Matt Smith and Felicity Jones as Hugh in Polly Stenham's That Face, both at the Royal Court and at the Duke of York's Theatre. Herrin also directed him in the National Theatre production of James Graham's This House, as Humphrey Atkins, in both Cottesloe and Olivier theatres, and in the West End revival of Another Country, in which he played Vaughan Cunningham.^[4]

His other National Theatre work includes roles in the following productions directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner: The Madness of King George (in which he played Prime Minister William Pitt opposite Sir Nigel Hawthorne's King George); Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (with Simon Russell Beale and Zoë Wanamaker); Polixenes in The Winter's Tale; Tartuffe (with Martin Clunes and Margaret Tyzack); The Changeling (with Miranda Richardson, directed by Richard Eyre); and Mountain Language (directed by Harold Pinter).

Other theatre roles include: Antonio in The Tempest at the Haymarket (directed by Sir Trevor Nunn with Ralph Fiennes); Duke Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre (with Dame Judi Dench and directed by Sir Peter Hall); Marshall Dorfling in The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse; Raymond Brock in Plenty (with Cate Blanchett) for the Almeida at the Albery; Elyot in Private Lives (Theatre Royal Bath). He also appeared in The Good Samaritan in Hampstead; A Letter of Resignation at the Comedy (with Edward Fox); and When We Are Married at the Whitehall.

He has appeared in numerous television productions, including The Casual Vacancy, Silk, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Middlemarch, Father Brown, The Trial of Lord Lucan (as Lord Lucan), Rosemary and Thyme, and Dalziel and Pascoe.

In December 2014, he finished filming Miramax's The 9th Life of Louis Drax, scripted by Max Minghella. As of December 2015, he was continuing to recreate the role of John Steed in Big Finish's audio series The Avengers – The Lost Episodes.^[5]

Works

Film

Maurice (1987) – Hull
The Madness of King George (1994) – Pitt the Younger
The Secret Agent (1996) – The Assistant Commissioner
The English Patient (1996, included in a 1996 nomination for Best Cast for the film) – Madox
Preaching to the Perverted (1997) – M'Learned Friend
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) – Ravelston
The Commissioner (1998) – Prime Minister
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001) – Rogers
Gypsy Woman (2001) – Stanley
A Different Loyalty (2004) – Andrew Darcy
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) – Major Granville
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) – Major Granville
Wah-Wah (2005) – Charles Bingham
Goya's Ghosts (2006) – Joseph Bonaparte
Outpost (2008) – Hunt
Fake Identity (2008) – Sterling
Legacy (2009) – Gregor Salenko
War Horse (2010) – Trench Captain
The Iron Lady (2011) – Francis Pym
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012) – Uncle Bob
Outpost: Black Sun (2012) – Francis Hunt
Now Is Good (2012) – Dr. Ryan
The Scapegoat (2012) – Headmaster
National Theatre Live: This House (2013) – Humphrey Atkins
Queen and Country (2014) – Colonel Fielding
The Riot Club (2014) – Miles' Father
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016) – Dr. Janek
Churchill (2017) – General Montgomery
Victoria & Abdul (2017) – Alick Yorke
Tokyo Trial (2017) – Erima H. Northcroft
Colette (2018) – Ollendorff
The Happy Prince (2018) – Mr. Arbuthnott
The Song of Names (2019) – Arbuthnot Bailey

Television

Baal with David Bowie (1982)
Blind Justice (1988) as James Bingham
Casualty – "Drake's Drum" as Rev. Tony Vassar (1988)
Bergerac (1990) as David Russell
Agatha Christie's Poirot – "The Plymouth Express" as Robert Carrington (1991)
Middlemarch (1994) as Sir James Chettam
The Trial of Lord Lucan as Lord Lucan (1997)
Dance to the Music of Time as General Liddament (1997)
Pie in the Sky – Series 3, Episode 35, "Pork Pies" (1997) as Anthony Neale
The Wingless Bird as Reginald Farrier – TV mini-series (1997)
Highlander: The Raven – "The Ex-Files" (1999)
Midsomer Murders (Episode: "Death's Shadow") (1999) as Simon Fletcher
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries – "Payment in Blood" (2001)
Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Captain Karl Mayr (2003)
Island at War (2004) as Urban Mahy
Rosemary & Thyme – Episode 2.13 (2004) as Lord Elshingham
Tom Brown's Schooldays as Squire Brown (2005)
Dalziel and Pascoe – Series 9 "Dust Thou Art" (2005) as Richard Johnstone
Egypt – Episodes 1 and 2, as Lord Carnarvon (2005)
Taggart – Series 22, Episode 4 Running Out of Time as Brigadier Johnny Lewis-Scott (2005)
The Government Inspector as Jonathan Powell (2005)
Agatha Christie's Marple – "Sleeping Murder" as Kelvin Halliday (2006)
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006) as David Maxwell Fyfe
Ghostboat as Captain Nathan Byrnes (2006)
My Boy Jack (2007) as King George V
Foyle's War – "Plan of Attack" (2008) as "W" (Cmdr Stephen Foster)
Midsomer Murders (Episode: "The Creeper") (2009) as William Chettham
Lewis – "The Point of Vanishing" (2009) as Tom Rattenbury
Downton Abbey as General Sir Herbert Strutt – Episode 2.3 (2012)
Father Brown – "The Flying Stars" as Colonel Reginald Adams (2013)
Silk (2013) as Lever
The Casual Vacancy (2015) as Aubrey Sweetlove
Tokyo Trial (2016) as Erima Harvey Northcroft
Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi (2016 podcast series) as Pope Innocent III
Death in Paradise as Frank Henderson (2 episodes) (2017)
The Singapore Grip as Soloman Langfield (2019)
The Crown as David Stancliffe (2023)

Audio

The Minister of Chance as The Minister of Chance (2011–2013)

Theatre

Another Country, Queens Theatre
When We Are Married, Whitehall Theatre
Falkland Sound, Royal Court
Serious Money, Royal Court
Our Country's Good, Royal Court
The Recruiting Officer, Royal Court
Carrington, Royal National Theatre
Mountain Language, Royal National Theatre
The Changeling, Royal National Theatre
Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens, Royal National Theatre
The Madness of George III, Royal National Theatre
Plenty, Almeida at the Albery
The Good Samaritan, Hampstead Theatre
The Winter's Tale, Royal National Theatre
Tartuffe, Royal National Theatre
Private Lives, Theatre Royal Bath
That Face, Royal Court
Much Ado About Nothing, Royal National Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rose Theatre, Kingston
The Prince of Homburg, Donmar Warehouse
The Tempest, Theatre Royal Haymarket
This House, Royal National Theatre
Another Country, Theatre Royal Bath/Chichester Festival Theatre/Trafalgar Studio

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1997	3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (shared with the cast)	The English Patient	Nominated

References

^ Debrett's People of Today, 2015. debretts.com
^ White, Peter. "Julian Wadham: A Patient Englishman". Isle of Wight Life. visitilife.com. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
^ Sierz, Aleks (4 April 2014). "Another Country, Trafalgar Studios". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
^ Evans, Lloyd (19 April 2014). "Another Country could almost be a YouTube advert for Eton". The Spectator. The Spectator (1828) Ltd. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
^ "The Avengers". The Avengers. Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 2 December 2015.