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Richard Curtis

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Richard Curtis was born in New Zealand but was educated At Harrow and Oxford where he got a First in English and met Rowan Atkinson with whom he got his big break at the BBC with the comedy series Not the Nine O'Clock News, He'd also met Helen Fielding, who became the creator. of Bridget Jones , at Oxford, Richard went on to co write Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley.. His first film script was for The Tall Guy (1989) and in 1997 he co wrote Bean, the film of the tv series. He's also co-founder and vice -chairman of Comic Relief.He wrote the Oscar nominated script for 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral which was made for £3 million but grossed over £259 million that made his reputation. He lives with broadcaster Emma Freud and their two children in the Notting Hil area of London.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5

He frequently works with Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Grant
Works often take place in a historic event
His main characters tend to be surrounded by eccentric characters (The Vicar of Dibley and the four Blackadder series)

When he was in college, his girlfriend left him for a man named Bernard. In each of his screenplays, there is a fairly unpopular character named Bernard.
Founded Comic Relief with Lenny Henry.
As a child, he lived in New Zealand, the Philippines, and Sweden because his father was an executive of Unilever who was posted around the world.
Ranked #12 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
Together with Ben Elton, he was offered the chance to write "Police Academy 6: The London Beat", but refused.

You won't find many people who've had an easier ride in movies than I.
I didn't decide to be a writer. I wanted to be an actor and I turned out to be very bland, so I would always get cast as a character from Twelefth Night called Fabian, who hides behind the hedge and doesn't have any funny lines. So I decided I would have to write my own lines.
Anything that is wrong with a film will come back to haunt you forever, so I take a long time writing, fix everything, underline bits that I thought were funny when I first thought of them because they won't be funny when I look at them later. Oh, and I put the word 'fuck' in a lot.
Never, ever in any of our films have we thought 'we'll do this for the American market', Sometimes we'd change a song or a name or the word 'arse' but on the whole we try to make movies for home and then just hope they'll work in the US.
I think I had a very lucky break when we asked Mike Newell to do Four Weddings. Mike is a very serious, beautiful person, a wonderful director. What he succeeded in doing was to hide the fact that the original script read much more like a series of sketches.

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