Roland Curram
Born: 1932-01-01 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Died: 2025-06-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1999
- Holby City as Ted Carver
1992
- Eldorado as Freddie Martin
1985
- Tandoori Nights as Jack
1982
- Bird of Prey as Mr Adrian
- The Stanley Baxter Hour
1981
- Artemis '81 as Asrael
- Big Jim and the Figaro Club as Perkins
1980
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Poole
1979
- Terry and June as Brian Pillbeam
- Big Jim and the Figaro Club as Harold Perkins
1978
- Let's Get Laid as Rupert Dorchester
- Betzi as Count Bertrand
1976
- Bouquet of Barbed Wire as Rupert Warner
- The Crezz
1974
- Churchill's People as Slave Buyer
- The Capone Investment as Bunty
1973
- Armchair 30 as Barry Strap
- The Eagle Has Landed as Roger
1972
- Late Night Theatre as Husband
- Ooh...You Are Awful as Vivian
1970
- The Misfit as Vernon
- Every Home Should Have One as Arthur/Mario
1969
- End of Story as Terence
1968
- Nana as Fauchery
- Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher as Otto Silenus
1967
- I'll Never Forget What's'isname as Eldrich
1966
- King of the River as Western
- The Informer as Peter Larosse
- Second Childhood as Ronnie Cash
1965
- Out of the Unknown as Ronnie Cash
- Darling as Malcolm
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Toby Oath
- Redcap
1963
- Incident at Midnight as Soldier
- The Silent Playground as Simon Lacey
1961
- The Avengers
- They Met in a City as Georgie Price
- The Green Helmet as George
1960
- Maigret
- Peeping Tom as Young Man in Sports Car (uncredited)
- The Bulldog Breed as Control Room Radio Operator (uncredited)
- Doctor in Love as Student Doctor (uncredited)
1959
- No Hiding Place
- The Captain's Table as Sailor in Kindergarten Room (uncredited)
1958
- Dunkirk as Harper
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Pierre Gobert
1953
- The Good Beginning as Carpenter
- Trouble in Store as Sailor in Store Recording Studio (uncredited)