Hugh Laurie, OBE
Hugh Laurie at the Emmy Awards, 2007
Born	James Hugh Calum Laurie 11 June 1959 (1959-06-11) (age 48) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Occupation	Actor, Comedian, Writer
Spouse(s)	Jo Green
Awards won Golden Globe Awards Best Actor in a Television Drama Series 2006, 2007 House Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Actor - Drama Series 2006 House Other Awards Perrier Comedy Award 1981 Satellite Award for Best Actor - TV Series Drama 2005, 2006 House

James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born June 11, 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. Laurie first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Since 2004 he has starred as Dr. Gregory House, protagonist in the American television drama House. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 321 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (421 × 785 pixel, file size: 118 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Crop from Image:Emmys-laurie. ... is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Biography

Early life and education

Laurie was born in Oxford, England.^[1] The youngest of four children, Hugh has a brother (elder by 6 years) and two sisters.^[2] His mother, Patricia (née Laidlaw), died from motor neurone disease when Laurie was 29.^[3] According to Laurie, it took her two years to die, and she suffered "painful, plodding paralysis" while being cared for by Laurie's father, whom he called "the sweetest man in the whole world".^[2] His father, W.G.R.M. "Ran" Laurie, was a medical doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs at the 1948 London Games.^[1][4] This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ... Née redirects here. ... William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, known as Ran Laurie (4 June 1915 – 19 September 1998) was a British rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist. ... For other uses, see Doctor. ... The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... Gold Medal is an album by American band The Donnas, released in 2004. ... In rowing, a coxless pair consists of a pair of rowers, each having one oar, one on the stroke side and one on the bow side. ... The Games of the XIV Olympiad were held in 1948 at Wembley Stadium in London, England. ...

Laurie was raised in the Scottish Presbyterian church.^[5][1][6] He was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School, a prestigious preparatory school.^[1] He later went on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he achieved a Third-Class Honours degree in archaeology & anthropology.^[1] Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... Dragon School logo School House at the Dragon School, on Bardwell Road. ... In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school (usually abbreviated to prep school) is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are called public schools. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... Full name Selwyn College Motto ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ Quit ye like men Named after George Augustus Selwyn Previous names - Established 1882 Sister College(s) Keble College, Oxford Master Prof. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For referencing in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Citing sources. ... This article is about the social science. ...

Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university;^[1] in 1977, he was half of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 World Championships. Later, he also achieved a Blue while taking part in the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.^[6] Cambridge lost that year by 1.5 metres (4.9 ft). Laurie is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world. Boat race redirects here. ... The Leander Club is based in Henley-on-Thames, and is the oldest rowing club in the world. ...

Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of infectious mononucleosis (Glandular Fever), he joined the Cambridge Footlights, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians.^[1] There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship. (The two remain good friends.)^[1] She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team. In 1980–81, his final year at university, Laurie managed to find time outside his rowing to become president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, written principally by Laurie and Fry, the cast also including Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the first Perrier Comedy Award. The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. ... Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, columnist, filmmaker and television personality. ... University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show, licensed and produced by Granada Television. ... Bambi was the seventh episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. ... The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, which aired on BBC2. ... Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. ... Anthony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is an English actor and comedian. ... Paul Shearer is a British actor who is most well known as a minor member of the Fast Show team. ... A street performer on the Royal Mile, with volunteer (2004). ... The Perrier Comedy Award is a prestigious award for comedy, awarded to the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe sponsored by the Perrier brand of bottled water. ...

Career

The Perrier Award led to a West End transfer for The Cellar Tapes and a television version of the revue, broadcast in May 1982. It also resulted in Laurie, Fry and Thompson being selected along with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in a new sketch comedy show for Granada Television, Alfresco, which ran for two series. West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... For the jazz saxophonist, see Ravi Coltrane. ... Siobhan Redmond (born August 27, 1959) is a British actress. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Fry and Laurie went on to work together on various projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Among them were the Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis and starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, but most notably Prince George and Lieutenant George;^[1] their BBC sketch comedy series, A Bit of Fry and Laurie; and Jeeves and Wooster. The latter was an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves' employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster. It was a role for which Laurie was considered particularly well suited, displaying his talent as a pianist and singer, alongside his celebrated 'posh' voice. He and Fry also worked together at various charity stage events, such as Hysteria! 1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry and Laurie Host a Christmas Night with the Stars. They collaborated again on the film Peter's Friends. Hugh Laurie (left) & Stephen Fry on the set of A Bit of Fry and Laurie Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are a successful British comedy double act of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. ... Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer, famous for his title roles in the British television comedies Blackadder and Mr. ... George is the name of two characters appearing in the historical BBC sitcom Blackadder played by Hugh Laurie. ... George is the name of two characters appearing in the historical BBC sitcom Blackadder played by Hugh Laurie. ... This article is about the television series. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a British humorous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: ) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Amnesty international Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization which defines its mission as to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience... For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ... Peters Friends (1992) is a British comedy-drama film written by Rita Rudner and her husband Martin Bergman, and directed and produced by Kenneth Branagh. ...

Laurie appeared in the music video for the 1992 single "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox, in full Regency-period costume as in Blackadder the Third (and opposite John Malkovich, similarly reprising Dangerous Liaisons). He also appears as a scientist in the video for "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Walking on Broken Glass is a single by Annie Lennox, taken from her 1992 album, Diva. ... Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician, vocalist, and Academy Award-winning songwriter. ... The English Regency, or simply the Regency, is a name given to the period from 1811 to 1820 in the history of England. ... This is an episode list of the British sitcom Blackadder. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 film directed by Stephen Frears. ... Experiment IV was the one new song on Kate Bushs hits album The Whole Story (excluding the re-recorded rendition of Wuthering Heights). Experiment IV was also the only single release from The Whole Story. ... Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. ...

Laurie's later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson; the Disney live-action movie 101 Dalmatians (1996), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies; Elton's adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby (2000); Girl From Rio; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix; and the three Stuart Little films. Jane Austens novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) was adapted into a 1995 film by Emma Thompson, for which she received general acclaim as well as a 1996 Academy Award. ... Disney redirects here. ... Maybe Baby is a 2000 British film, written and directed by Ben Elton based upon his book Inconceivable, starring Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson. ... Chica de Río or Girl from Rio is a 2001 film, written and directed by Christopher Monger, starring Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunes, Santiago Segura, Lia Williams, and Patrick Barlow. ... Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, based on the book of the same name. ... It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article entitled The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film). ... Stuart Little is a 1999 live-action film, very loosely based on the novel of the same name (few of the events in the movie actually occurred in the book). ...

In 1996, Laurie's first novel, The Gun Seller, a spoof of the thriller genre, was published^[1] and became a best seller. He has since been working on the screenplay for a movie version and on a second novel, The Paper Soldier. In 1998, Laurie had a brief guest-starring role on Friends in the episode "The One with Ross's Wedding, Part Two". The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Lauries first, and to date only, novel. ... This article is about the television show. ... The One With Rosss Wedding, Part Two is the twenty-fourth episode of season four of the television sitcom Friends. ...

Since 2002, Laurie has appeared in a range of British television dramas, guest-starring that year in two episodes of the first season of the spy thriller series Spooks on BBC One. In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series Fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). In 2001, he also voiced the character of a bar patron in the Family Guy episode "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea". Laurie was the character of Mr. Wolf in the cartoon Preston Pig. He was also a panellist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host. In 2004, Laurie guest-starred as a professor in charge of a space probe called Beagle, on The Lenny Henry Show. For the music band, see The Spooks. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 1. ... For other uses, see ITV (disambiguation). ... Family Guy is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. ... “One If by Clam, Two If by Sea” is an episode of Family Guy. ... Preston Pig is a childrens cartoon show, that airs on CITV, based on a series of books by Colin McNaughton. ... For other uses, see QI (disambiguation). ... Lenny Henry Fan Club has information about the show and has free membership! ...

Although Laurie has been a household name in Britain since the 1980s, he only came to the attention of a broader American public in 2004, when he first starred as the acerbic attending physician Dr. Gregory House in the popular FOX medical drama, House. For his portrayal, Laurie assumes an American accent.^[1] Laurie was in Namibia filming Flight of the Phoenix and recorded the audition tape for the show in the bathroom of the hotel, the only place he could get enough light.^[7] His US accent was so convincing that executive producer Bryan Singer, who was unaware at the time that Laurie is English, pointed to him as an example of just the kind of compelling American actor he had been looking for. Laurie also adopts the voice between takes on the set of House, as well as during script read-throughs. Dr. Gregory House, M.D., is a fictional character and protagonist of the Fox medical drama House. ... FOX redirects here. ... House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, based on the book of the same name. ... Bryan Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American film director. ...

In July 2005, Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in House. Although he did not win, he did receive a Golden Globe in both 2006 and 2007 for his work on the series (one of very few to have received the award in consecutive years) and the Screen Actors Guild award in 2007. Laurie has also been awarded a large increase in salary, from what was rumoured to be a mid-range five-figure sum to $350,000 per episode. His House contract was also extended for an additional year, allowing for at least a fifth season to be produced.^[8] Laurie was not nominated for the 2006 Emmys, apparently to the "outrage" of Fox executives^[9], but he still appeared in a scripted, pre-taped intro, where he parodied his House character by rapidly diagnosing host Conan O'Brien and then proceeded to grope him as the latter asked him for help to get to the Emmys on time. He would later go on to speak in French whilst presenting an award with Dame Helen Mirren on stage. An Emmy Award. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and TV writer, best known as host of NBCs Late Night with Conan OBrien. ... Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born July 26, 1945), is an English stage, television and film actress. ...

Laurie was initially cast as Perry White, the editor of the Daily Planet, in the film Superman Returns but had to bow out of the project because of his involvement in House (the series is produced by Bad Hat Harry Productions, which is owned by Bryan Singer, who directed Superman Returns). In July 2006, Laurie appeared on Bravo!'s Inside the Actors Studio, where he also performed one of his own comic songs, "Mystery", on the piano with vocal accompaniment.^[1] He also hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live, in which he appeared in drag in a sketch about a man (Kenan Thompson) with a broken leg who accuses his doctor of being dishonest. Laurie played the man's wife. Perry White is a fictional character who appears in the Superman comics, and is the editor-in-chief of the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Planet. ... This article is about the fictional newspaper. ... For the video game of the same name, see Superman Returns (video game). ... Bravo! is a Canadian cable specialty television channel owned by CHUM Limited and was launched on January 1, 1995. ... Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. ... This article is about the television network. ... SNL redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kenan Thompson (born May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia), is an American actor and comedian. ...

In August 2007, Laurie appeared on BBC Four's documentary Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out, filmed in celebration of Fry's fiftieth birthday. For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 4. ...

Personal life

Laurie married Jo Green, a theatre administrator, in June 1989. They live in north London with their daughter, Rebecca, and two sons, Bill and Charlie. Charlie had a cameo in A Bit of Fry and Laurie in the last sketch of the third episode of the first series entitled Special Squad, as baby William (whom Stephen and Hugh begin to "interrogate" about "what he's done with the stuff", calling him a scumbag and telling him that's he's been a very naughty boy) during his infancy, while Rebecca had a role in the film Wit as five-year-old Vivian Bearing. Laurie is close friends with actress Emma Thompson and his House co-star Robert Sean Leonard.^[10] The group is tight-knit professionally as well; as mentioned, Laurie acted in Thompson's film script of Sense and Sensibility, and Leonard has appeared with Thompson in a film of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Thompson's then-husband, Kenneth Branagh. Laurie also acted with Thompson and Branagh in the film Peter's Friends, in which Stephen Fry played the title role. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the television series. ... Wit is a 2001 HBO television movie based on the play Wit. ... Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. ... Robert Sean Leonard (born Robert Lawrence Leonard on February 28, 1969, in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is a Tony Award-winning American actor who is most noted for his role as aspiring actor Neil Perry in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. ... Jane Austens novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) was adapted into a 1995 film by Emma Thompson, for which she received general acclaim as well as a 1996 Academy Award. ... Much Ado About Nothing is a 1993 movie based on William Shakespeares play; it was adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also played the role of Benedick. ... Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director. ... Peters Friends (1992) is a British comedy-drama film written by Rita Rudner and her husband Martin Bergman, and directed and produced by Kenneth Branagh. ... The title role is the role (or position) of the character after whom a literary work (e. ...

Laurie stated on BBC Radio 2 in an interview with Steve Wright in January 2006 that he is currently living in an apartment in West Hollywood while he is in the United States working on House. Laurie can play the piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone. He has displayed his musical talents in episodes of several series, most notably A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, House and when he hosted Saturday Night Live on 28 October 2006. He is a vocalist and keyboard player for the Los Angeles charity rock group "Band From TV". BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and the most popular station in the UK. As well as having most listeners nationally, it ranks first in all regions above local radio stations. ... Nickname: WeHo Location of Los Angeles County in California and West Hollywood within Los Angeles County Country United States State California County Los Angeles Incorporated 1984  - City Council John Heilman (mayor) Sal Guarriello John J. Duran Abbe Land Jeffrey Prang Area    - City  1. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a British humorous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... SNL redirects here. ... is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Band From TV is a charity rock group, the focal point of the Band From TV Global Charity Trust. ...

Laurie was awarded an OBE in the 2007 New Year Honours List for his services to drama.^[11][12] On 23 May 2007, he was given the honour by Queen Elizabeth II.^[13] The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... The New Year Honours 2007 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 30 December 2006, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2007. ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The...

Laurie has periodically struggled with severe clinical depression,^[1] and continues to receive regular treatment from a psychotherapist. He stated in an interview that he first concluded he had a problem while driving in a charity demolition derby in 1996, and realised that driving around explosive crashes caused him to be neither excited nor frightened (he said that he felt, in fact, bored).^[14][1] "Boredom," he commented in an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, "is not an appropriate response to exploding cars". On the Threshold of Eternity. ... Psychotherapy is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in problems of living. ... Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. ...

Laurie admires the writings of P.G. Wodehouse: he explained in a 27 May 1999 article in The Daily Telegraph how reading Wodehouse novels had saved his life.^[15] Called English literatures performing flea, P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output. ... is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events of 2008: (EMILY) Me Lesley and MIley are going to China! This article is about the year. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ...

Awards

Emmy Awards

• 2005 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• 2007 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Golden Globe Awards

• 2005 - Winner - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
• 2006 - Winner - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
• 2007 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama^[16]

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• 2005 - Winner - Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama
• 2006 - Winner - Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama

Screen Actors Guild Awards

• 2006 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
• 2007 - Winner - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Television Critics Association

• 2005 - Winner - Individual Achievement in Drama
• 2006 - Winner - Individual Achievement in Drama
• 2007 - Nominated - Individual Achievement in Drama ^[17]

Teen Choice Award

• 2007 - Winner - TV Actor: Drama

Filmography

Alfresco was a British television series starring Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Siobhan Redmond and Emma Thompson, broadcast by ITV (produced by Granada Television) between 1983 and 1984. ... The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, which aired on BBC2. ... Plenty is a 1985 movie starring Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Ian McKellen, Sam Neill and Burt Kwouk. ... Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... Filthy Rich & Catflap was a BBC sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast early the next year. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... Blackadder in Blackadders Christmas Carol Blackadders Christmas Carol (1988) is a one-off episode of Blackadder, a parody of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. ... This article is about the television series. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... Strapless is a 1989 film written and directed by David Hare. ... The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a British humorous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... Peters Friends (1992) is a British comedy-drama film written by Rita Rudner and her husband Martin Bergman, and directed and produced by Kenneth Branagh. ... Jane Austens novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) was adapted into a 1995 film by Emma Thompson, for which she received general acclaim as well as the 1996 Academy Award. ... Tracey Takes On. ... Spiceworld is the debut feature film of the four-time BRIT Award-winning English pop girl group Spice Girls directed by Bob Spiers and written by Kim Fuller and Jamie Curtis. ... The Borrowers (book cover) The Borrowers is a novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who borrow things from normal humans and keep their existence unknown. ... This article is about the television show. ... The One with Rosss Wedding is the season finale of the fourth season of the American television situation comedy Friends, which aired on NBC on May 7, 1998. ... This article is about the British TV series. ... The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) is a film directed by Randall Wallace, and is an unofficial sequel to The Three Musketeers. ... La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac. ... Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999) was created for showing during 2000 in a cinema built near the Millennium Dome, by Sky Television and the BBC, with sponsorship from—among others—Tesco PLC. Spoiler warning: Blackadder is entertaining guests on New Years Eve, 1999. ... Stuart Little is a 1999 live-action film, very loosely based on the novel of the same name (few of the events in the movie actually occurred in the book). ... Maybe Baby is a 2000 British film, written and directed by Ben Elton based upon his book Inconceivable, starring Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson. ... Chica de Río or Girl from Rio is a 2001 film, written and directed by Christopher Monger, starring Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunes, Santiago Segura, Lia Williams, and Patrick Barlow. ... Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 film, directed by Rob Minkoff. ... For the music band, see The Spooks. ... House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. ... Dr. Gregory House, M.D., is a fictional character and protagonist of the Fox medical drama House. ... Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, based on the book of the same name. ... Valiant is a 2005 computer-animated film, which tells the tale of a group of messenger pigeons during World War II. Produced by Vanguard Animation, it was distributed Buena Vista Pictures in the United States and a variety of other companies internationally. ... Monsters vs. ...

Books

Hugh Laurie has written one full-length novel — The Gun Seller — which has undergone multiple printings from several publishers. His second novel, The Paper Soldier, is tentatively (re-)scheduled for September, 2009. The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Lauries first, and to date only, novel. ...

• The Gun Seller UK (HB) (William Heinemann Ltd (May 1996)) ISBN 0-434-00297-6 (PB) (William Heinemann Ltd (May 1996)) ISBN 0-434-00375-1
  • (PB) (Arrow Books Ltd (Nov 2000); New Ed (Oct 2004)) ISBN 0-099-41927-0 & ISBN 0-099-46939-1
• The Gun Seller US (HB) (Soho Press (May 1997)) ISBN 1-569-47087-1 (PB) (Mandarin (Mar 1997)) ISBN 0-749-32385-X
  • (PB) (Washington Square Press (Nov 1998)) ISBN 0-671-02082-X

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References

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