Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis
Birth date:	8 November 1956
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, executive producer
Stories:	Vincent and the Doctor, The Curse of Fatal Death
Main time period active:	1999, 2010
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Not the Nine O'clock News, Blackadder, Comic Relief, The Tall Guy, Mr. Bean, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Vicar of Dibley, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, The Girl in the Cafe, The Boat That Rocked, War Horse, About Time, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, The Museum of Curiosity, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
IMDb profile

Richard Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956) was the executive producer of the official Doctor Who BBC parody The Curse of Fatal Death, which was written by future Doctor Who head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat. During the Moffat era of the show, Curtis wrote the episode Vincent and the Doctor.

Career

On television, he is best known for his work on The Vicar of Dibley, Spitting Image, Blackadder, which featured Curse of Fatal Death actors Rowan Atkinson and Jim Broadbent, and Mr. Bean, also starring Atkinson. In film, he is known as the screenwriter for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary and the writer/director of Love Actually, all of which starred Hugh Grant, who also appeared in The Curse of Fatal Death. He also conducted the cast interviews included in the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Personal life

He is married to Emma Freud.

In the Doctor Who universe

Richard Curtis was mentioned in the Eighth Doctor Adventure novel The Tomorrow Windows as one of the many celebrities who attended the opening of the Tomorrow Windows at Tate Modern.

External links

• Richard Curtis at the Internet Movie Database