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Julian Dutton is an English comedy writer and performer, principally for television and radio, whose work has won a British Comedy Award, a BAFTA, and a Radio Academy Gold Award for Best Comedy. He is the co-creator and co-writer of the forthcoming BBC One comedy series ''Pompidou'' starring Matt Lucas, the first silent comedy TV series to be made for almost twenty years, since Rowan Atkinson's ''Mr. Bean.''〔http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/000001102/bbc_one_order_silent_comedy_matt_lucas_pompidou/〕 Described as one of "the best vocal performers around,"〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7h94〕 (BBC Comedy) he was one of the driving forces behind the hit BBC One comedy show ''The Big Impression'' with Alistair McGowan, and has also written and starred in several of his own series on BBC Radio 4, as well as writing extensively for many other TV and radio shows.〔http://www.rbmcomedy.com/site/client.php?section_id=50〕 His series ''Truly, Madly, Bletchley'' was described by ''The Independent on Sunday'' as "The most confident new sitcom since ''The Navy Lark''",〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/radio--so-if-you-want-a-laugh-go-to-bletchley-1276563.html〕 and ''Time Out'' praised his series ''The Harpoon'', written with Peter Baynham, as having achieved "classic status." His children's sitcom ''Scoop'' for CBBC, which Dutton writes and performs in, is now in its third series,〔http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/scoop/〕 and the hit impressions show "The Secret World," written with Bill Dare, in which Dutton performs alongside star impressionists Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Duncan Wisbey and Jess Robinson, will have its fourth season broadcast in 2013. The show was described by the Daily Express as "...definitely one of the funniest things I've heard on R4 for a while."〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jsxhl〕 On May 12th 2014 The Secret World won the Radio Academy Gold Award for Best Comedy.〔 http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/index.cfm?winners_year=2014&winners_award_group_id=4&winners_award_category_id=35〕 He is the author of three books: the historical travelogue ''Shakespeare's Journey Home: a Traveller's Guide through Elizabethan England'', ''The Bumper Book of Curious Clubs'', a comic journey through the world's oddest societies,〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Julian%20Dutton&search-alias=books-uk&sort=relevancerank〕 and ''Keeping Quiet: Visual Comedy in the Age of Sound,'' published by Chaplin Books, April 2015. == Early career == Born in central London, Dutton grew up in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, attending Great Marlow School. Fellow pupils included Olympic Champion Steve Redgrave〔http://www.steveredgrave.com/home.html〕 and the artist Paul Wilmott.〔http://www.artgallery.co.uk/artist/paul_wilmott〕 Like Alistair McGowan, Dutton attended the University of Leeds where he studied English and History, whilst performing extensively with the University Theatre Group. After leaving university he began work as an actor, touring with his own theatre company and writing and performing in his own play ''The Candidate'' at the New End Theatre, Hampstead. Early professional work included touring working men's clubs in the Midlands and North of England with a children's variety show; appearances in the West End with Charlton Heston and Ben Cross in ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'';〔http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nEPm0Yo5eHMC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=caine+mutiny+court+martial+queen's+theatre+1986&source=bl&ots=oNIhHGkGQG&sig=ec2v5qZfe12aOHJvwWsWAJ8TuQA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PDdVUcjvC7Kl0wXF-4HYAw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=caine%20mutiny%20court%20martial%20queen's%20theatre%201986&f=false〕 and a national tour with Ralph Bates in Alan Ayckbourn's ''Absent Friends''. Dutton then aged several decades to portray 'Morganhall', the eccentric barrister in John Mortimer's comic two-hander ''The Dock Brief'', performed with Canadian actor Jonathan Hartman. He also toured Europe in productions of ''The Taming of the Shrew'' and ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', appearing in Rotterdam, Cologne, Antwerp and Amsterdam; as well as TV appearances in ''Tucker's Luck'', ''The Bill'', ''Dempsey and Makepeace'' and ''Rockliffe's Babies''.〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244937/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julian Dutton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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