Roland Curram
Roland Curram was an actor and novelist. His most famous credits include Julie Christie's travelling companion in her Oscar-winning film Darling and expatriate Freddie in the BBC soap opera Eldorado. He was married from 1964 until 1985 to the actress Sheila Gish, with whom he had two daughters, the actors Lou Gish (1967–2006) and Kay Curram (b. 1974). Curram came out as gay in the early 1990s, ahead of his role as Freddie, a gay man who had previously been married and had a daughter. Curram left acting in the early 00s to commence a second career as an author with novels such as The Problem with Happiness, Mother Loved Funerals, Man on the Beach, and his memoir, Which Way to Love? He died, aged 93, in 2025.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6266 |
| Birthday | 1932-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1965
Darling
6.7/147
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame a...
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Darling
1981
Artemis '81
4.143/7
Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, repres...
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Artemis '81
1968
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
6/4
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
1972
Ooh...You Are Awful
4.763/19
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out, Charlie is arrested for scamming an Ameri...
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Ooh...You Are Awful
1967
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
5.4/15
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1961
The Green Helmet
9/1
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he get...
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The Green Helmet
1953
The Good Beginning
10/1
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day...
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The Good Beginning
1980
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
6.2/5
Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1963
The Silent Playground
5.25/4
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
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The Silent Playground
1975
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
7.5/2
A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in...
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1957
The Admirable Crichton
6.868/34
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still b...
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The Admirable Crichton
1969
End of Story
0/0
Play about a television playwright's attempts to make a mark when an opportunity is given to him to fill a slot left by a recently deceased rival. The...
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End of Story
1973
The Eagle Has Landed
0/0
A mission takes off for the moon. But this is a space probe with a difference. Its purpose is to stage the first-ever live variety show from the lunar...
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The Eagle Has Landed
1958
Dunkirk
6.85/70
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain someh...
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Dunkirk
1978
Betzi
8/1
A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
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Betzi
1979
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
0/0
In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gr...
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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1974
The Capone Investment
6.2/5
Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era.
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The Capone Investment
1970
Every Home Should Have One
4.857/21
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that ma...
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Every Home Should Have One
1960
Peeping Tom
7.449/898
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which i...
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Peeping Tom
1960
Doctor in Love
5.472/18
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1978
Let's Get Laid
3.625/8
A demobbed soldier, Gordon Laid, returning from World War II meets Maxine Lupercal, a member of a traveling troupe of actors returning to England on t...
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Let's Get Laid
1963
Incident at Midnight
7/2
In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader.
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Incident at Midnight
1953
Trouble in Store
6.125/24
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser ma...
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Trouble in Store
1960
The Bulldog Breed
6/18
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, h...
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The Bulldog Breed
1959
The Captain's Table
6/6
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take...
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The Captain's Table
1982
The Stanley Baxter Hour
6/1
The sketches include too many feet, Whicker's World looks at marriage, somewhere in Hell...1982, at look at the use of language in Arra Gemme, Bridesh...
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The Stanley Baxter Hour
1966
Second Childhood
0/0
Charles Dennistoun, a 60-year-old contestant on 'You Bet a Million' - a quiz show for millionaires - wins the jackpot prize, a course in rejuvenation....
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