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Ian Curteis

January 06, 2023

Not to be confused with Ian Curtis.

Ian Bayley Curteis (1 May 1935 – 24 November 2021) was a British dramatist and television director.

Life and career

Curteis was born in London on 1 May 1935, and began his career as an actor, joining Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in the mid-1950s, and later working in this profession in regional theatres, and as a stage director or producer. His career in television began as a script reader for both the BBC and Granada Television. Curteis joined the staff of the BBC as a trainee director in 1964.[1] The Projected Man (1966), which he directed, is his only cinema film.[2] Around the same time Curteis directed an episode of the BBC2 anthology series, Out of the Unknown, William Trevor's "Walk's End". Both projects had a problematic production; Curteis has disputed the claims of the producers of both.[1]

Switching to a career as a television dramatist from the late 1960s onwards, Curteis wrote for many series of the time, including The Onedin Line and Crown Court. Meanwhile, Curteis was writing television plays - he preferred the term over "drama documentaries" - with historical themes. Philby, Burgess and Maclean was commissioned by Granada, and broadcast in 1977. In autumn 1979 came Churchill and the Generals, Suez 1956, and the 8-part series Prince Regent, about George IV.[1] Lost Empires, a television adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel followed in 1986.

The Falklands Play, originally scheduled for production in 1985, was eventually broadcast in 2002. At the time production was cancelled, Curteis blamed a "liberal conspiracy" at the BBC. A BBC commission for a dramatisation of the Yalta Conference in 1945 was cancelled in 1995, Curteis alleged, because of his politically conservative presentation of events.[2] A stage play, The Bargain (2007), dealing with a fictionalised account of the meeting between Robert Maxwell and Mother Teresa in 1988 was adapted for BBC Radio in 2016.[3][4]

Curteis divorced his first wife, Dorothy Curteis, and his second, the novelist Joanna Trollope. His third wife was Lady Deirdre (formerly Lady Grantley),[5] daughter of William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel; they married in 2001 in the chapel of Markenfield Hall, which had been restored to a great extent by her previous husband. This was the first wedding to be held there for some 400 years. The couple continued restoration projects[6] which were expected to be ongoing until 2030.[7][8][9]

He died on 24 November 2021, at the age of 86.[10][11]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c Wake, Oliver (2015). "Ian Curteis: Television career overview". British Television Drama. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b Wake, Oliver (2003–14). "Curteis, Ian (1935–)". BFI screenonline. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  3. ^ Gardner, Lyn (26 March 2007). "The Bargain, Theatre Royal Bath". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  4. ^ "The Bargain". BBC Radio. September 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  5. ^ The History of the Chapel
  6. ^ "Medieval hall that spent 400 years as a barn brought back to life". Daily Telegraph. 24 August 2008.
  7. ^ The medieval Yorkshire manor house with a moat that's been in the same family since 1310
  8. ^ Markenfield Hall Ripon, North Yorkshire
  9. ^ Splendid isolation
  10. ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (25 November 2021). "Ian Curteis, dramatist whose play about the Falklands War was dropped by the BBC for being too kind to Mrs Thatcher – obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Ian Curteis obituary". The Guardian. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

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