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Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, as well as a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several ''Sunday Times'' best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film ''Gosford Park'', which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2004; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning British television series, ''Downton Abbey'' (2010 - 2015). ==Early life and education== Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Canadian-born Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes and his British wife, Olwen Mary ''née'' Stuart-Jones. His father was a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II.〔 He has three older brothers: Nicholas Peregrine James, wordsmith David Andrew, and playwright Roderick "Rory" Olivier. His childhood home was in Wetherby Place, South Kensington,〔Staff (18 December 2011). ("Julian Fellowes Baron Fellowes of West Stafford" ). BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 27 August 2013.〕 and afterwards at Chiddingly in East Sussex, where he lived from August 1959 until November 1988, and where his parents are buried. The house in Chiddingly, which had been owned by the whodunit writer Clifford Kitchin, was within easy reach of London where his father, who had been a diplomat, worked for Shell. Fellowes has described his father as one "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. Lovely, really." A decided influence to arise from this place was the friendship that developed with another family in the village – the Kingsleys. David Kingsley was head of British Lion Films, the company responsible for many Peter Sellers comedies. Sometimes "glamorous figures" would visit the Kingsleys' house. Fellowes has said that he thinks he "learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually make a living in the film business." 〔(The Sunday Times, ''Not quite Gosford Park'',18 December 2005 )〕 Fellowes was educated at several private schools in Britain: first at Wetherby School (Wetherby Place, South Kensington, London), then at St. Philip's, a Roman Catholic pre-preparatory school, also in Wetherby Place - (Fellowes is 'a cradle Catholic') - and finally at the Catholic public school Ampleforth College. He read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights, graduating with the degree of MA.〔''The Sunday Times'' profile of Julian Fellowes, p. 31 dated 21 November 2010〕 He studied further at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (London). 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 Fellowes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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