Blackadder Back And Forth IntrospectiveHugh Laurie Wikipedia. James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE born 1. June 1. 95. 9 is an English actor, director, musician, singer, comedian, and author. Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he met through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst attending Cambridge University, where Laurie was president of the Cambridge Footlights. Mr. Bean is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, and starring Atkinson as the title character. The Buffy Speak trope as used in popular culture. Any of a variety of speech patterns used to indicate that a character, while intelligent, is perhaps too. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. The duo acted together in a number of projects during the 1. A Bit of Fry Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. Lauries other notable roles during the period include the period comedy series Blackadder in which Fry also appeared and the films Sense and Sensibility, 1. Dalmatians, The Borrowers and Stuart Little. Laurie garnered international recognition and acclaim for his portrayal of the title character in the U. S. medical drama series House 2. Fox. He was listed in the 2. Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest paid actors in a television drama, earning 2. House. 12 Laurie has since garnered further acclaim for his portrayal of the antagonist Richard Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager and for his recurring role as Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep. He currently plays the lead role of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Eldon Chance in the Hulu series Chance 2. Outside acting, Laurie has released two blues albums, Let Them Talk and Didnt It Rain 2. The Gun Seller, published in 1. Among his honours, Laurie has won three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and has been nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE in 2. Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2. Early lifeeditJames Hugh Calum Laurie was born on 1. June 1. 95. 9 in Oxford. The youngest of four children, he has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie3 and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, Patricia ne Laidlaw. He notes that she was Presbyterian by character, by mood3 and that he was a frustration to her. His father, William George Ranald Mundell Ran Laurie, was a physician who won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs rowing at the 1. London Games. 37 Lauries mother died from motor neurone disease in Oxfordshire at the age of 7. Laurie was 3. 0. According to Laurie, she endured the disease for two years and she suffered painful, plodding paralysis while being cared for by Lauries father, whom he called the sweetest man in the whole world. Lauries parents, who were of Scottish descent, attended St. Columbas Presbyterian Church of England now United Reformed Church8 in Oxford. He notes that belief in God didnt play a large role in my home, but a certain attitude to life and the living of it did. He followed this by stating, Pleasure was something that was treated with great suspicion, pleasure was something that. I was going to say it had to be earned but even the earning of it didnt really work. It was something to this day, I mean, I carry that with me. Blackadder Back And Forth Intro' title='Blackadder Back And Forth Intro' />I find pleasure a difficult thing I dont know what you do with it, I dont know where to put it. He later stated, I dont believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted hed take it away. Laurie was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School from ages seven to 1. I was, in truth, a horrible child. Not much given to things of a bookey nature, I spent a large part of my youth smoking Number Six and cheating in French vocabulary tests. He went on to Eton College, which he describes as the most private of private schools. He says he attended Selwyn College, Cambridge as a result of family tradition as his father went to Cambridge and I applied to the same college. Laurie notes his father had a successful bout as an oarsman at Cambridge and that he was trying to follow in his fathers footsteps. He studied for a degree in archaeology and anthropology, specialising in social anthropology. Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university. In 1. British national title before representing Britains Youth Team at the 1. Junior World Rowing Championships. In 1. 98. 0, Laurie and his rowing partner, J. S. Palmer, were runners up in the Silver Goblets1. Eton Vikings rowing club. Later, Laurie also achieved a Blue while taking part in the 1. Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Cambridge lost that year by five feet. During this time, Laurie was training for up to eight hours a day and was on course to become an Olympic standard rower. Laurie is a member of Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world. He was also a member of the Hermes Club and the Hawks Club. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever mononucleosis, Laurie joined the Cambridge Footlights,1. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship the two remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. How To Install Tv Tuner Card In Pc more. 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 1. 98. 08. 1, his final year at university, besides rowing, Laurie was president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the first Perrier Comedy Award. The revue was written principally by Laurie and Fry, and the cast also included Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer. He states that he did not graduate from Cambridge. The Perrier Award led to a West End transfer for The Cellar Tapes and a television version of the revue, broadcast in May 1. It 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. Fry and Laurie went on to work together on various projects throughout the 1. Among them were the Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, but most notably Prince George and Lieutenant George. Other projects followed, of which one was their BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry Laurie another project was Jeeves and Wooster,3 an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouses stories, in which Laurie played Jeevess employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster. He and Fry worked together at various charity stage events, such as Hysteria Amnesty Internationals The Secret Policemans 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 Peters Friends and came together for a retrospective show in 2. Fry and Laurie Reunited. Laurie starred in the Thames Television film Letters from a Bomber Pilot 1. David Hodgson. This was a serious acting role, the film being dramatised from the letters home of Pilot Officer J. R. A. Bob Hodgson, a pilot in RAF Bomber Command, who was killed in action in 1. Laurie appeared in the music videos for the 1. Experiment IV by Kate Bush, and the 1.