Julian Wadham
Julian Neil Rohan Wadham is an English actor of stage, film and television.
Early life
The third son of Rohan Nicholas Wadham DFC and Juliana Wadham, Wadham was educated at Ampleforth College and the Central [School of Speech and Drama].Career
Wadham's theatre work includes playing Barclay 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.For the English Stage Company at the Royal Court he was directed by Max Stafford-Clark in Falkland Sound, as Lieutenant David Tinker RN, 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.
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.
His other National Theatre work includes roles in the following productions directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner: The Madness of King George ; Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing ; Polixenes in The Winter's Tale; Tartuffe ; The Changeling ; and Mountain Language.
Other theatre roles include: Antonio in The Tempest at the Haymarket ; Duke Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre ; Marshall Dorfling in The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse; Raymond Brock in Plenty for the Almeida at the Albery; Elyot in Private Lives. He also appeared in The Good Samaritan in Hampstead; A Letter of Resignation at the Comedy ; 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, 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.
Works
Film
- Maurice – Hull
- The Madness of King George – Pitt the Younger
- The Secret Agent – The Assistant Commissioner
- The English Patient – Madox
- Preaching to the Perverted – M'Learned Friend
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying – Ravelston
- The Commissioner – Prime Minister
- High Heels and Low Lifes – Rogers
- Gypsy Woman – Stanley
- A Different Loyalty – Andrew Darcy
- Exorcist: The Beginning – Major Granville
- Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist – Major Granville
- Wah-Wah – Charles Bingham
- Goya's Ghosts – Joseph Bonaparte
- Outpost – Hunt
- Fake Identity – Sterling
- Legacy – Gregor Salenko
- War Horse – Trench Captain
- The Iron Lady – Francis Pym
- Cheerful Weather for the Wedding – Uncle Bob
- Outpost: Black Sun – Francis Hunt
- Now Is Good – Dr. Ryan
- The Scapegoat – Headmaster
- National Theatre Live: This House – Humphrey Atkins
- Queen and Country – Colonel Fielding
- The Riot Club – Miles' Father
- The 9th Life of Louis Drax – Dr. Janek
- Churchill – General Montgomery
- Victoria & Abdul – Alick Yorke
- Tokyo Trial – Erima H. Northcroft
- Colette – Ollendorff
- The Happy Prince – Mr. Arbuthnott
- The Song of Names – Arbuthnot Bailey
Television
- Baal with David Bowie
- Blind Justice as James Bingham
- Casualty – "Drake's Drum" as Rev. Tony Vassar
- Bergerac as David Russell
- Agatha Christie's Poirot – "The Plymouth Express" as Robert Carrington
- Middlemarch as Sir James Chettam
- The Trial of Lord Lucan as Lord Lucan
- Dance to the Music of Time |Dance to the Music of Time] as General Liddament
- Pie in the Sky – Series 3, Episode 35, "Pork Pies" as Anthony Neale
- The Wingless Bird as Reginald Farrier – TV mini-series
- Highlander: The Raven – "The Ex-Files"
- Midsomer Murders as Simon Fletcher
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries – "Payment in Blood"
- Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Captain Karl Mayr
- Island at War as Urban Mahy
- Rosemary & Thyme – Episode 2.13 as Lord Elshingham
- Tom Brown's Schooldays as Squire Brown
- Dalziel and Pascoe – Series 9 "Dust Thou Art" as Richard Johnstone
- Egypt – Episodes 1 and 2, as Lord Carnarvon
- Taggart – Series 22, Episode 4 Running Out of Time as Brigadier Johnny Lewis-Scott
- The Government Inspector as Jonathan Powell
- Agatha Christie's Marple – "Sleeping Murder" as Kelvin Halliday
- Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial as David Maxwell Fyfe
- Ghostboat as Captain Nathan Byrnes
- My Boy Jack as King George V
- Foyle's War – "Plan of Attack" as "W"
- Midsomer Murders as William Chettham
- Lewis – "The Point of Vanishing" as Tom Rattenbury
- Downton Abbey as General Sir Herbert Strutt – Episode 2.3
- Father Brown – "The Flying Stars" as Colonel Reginald Adams
- Silk as Lever
- The Casual Vacancy as Aubrey Sweetlove
- Tokyo Trial as Erima Harvey Northcroft
- Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi as Pope Innocent III
- Death in Paradise as Frank Henderson
- The Singapore Grip as Soloman Langfield
- The Crown as David Stancliffe
- The Chelsea Detective as Andrew Mansfield MP
Audio
- The Minister of Chance as The Minister of Chance
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