Christopher Strauli
Birthday: Born in 1946-04-13 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Fortunes of War
Character: Toby Lush
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot....
Bergerac
Character: Nigel Smith
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it....
Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: James Bessel
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals....
Rising Damp
Character: John
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants....
Waking the Dead
Character: Duncan Sanderson MP
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases....
Playhouse
Character: Richard Latt
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC....
Playhouse
Character: Arthur Symons
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC....
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character: Robin
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979....
Raffles
Character: Bunny Manders
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one. In Victorian-era London, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valu...
Only When I Laugh
Character: Norman Binns
Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff....
Movie Credits
Rising Damp
Character: John
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction....
Aubrey
Character: Arthur Symons
A biographical portrait of pen-and-ink artist, Aubrey Beardsley....
Gentle Folk
Character: Richard Latt
An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions....
S.O.S. Titanic
Character: Harold Cottam, Carpathia Wireless Operator
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board....
Romeo and Juliet
Character: Benvolio
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife....
Measure for Measure
Character: Claudio
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise.....
For Tea on Sunday
Character: Robin
An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party....