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Other notable acting roles included the role of Claud Seabrook in the acclaimed 1996 BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North and the 2nd Duke of Richmond in the BBC drama serial Aristocrats. Jobling in the 1994 BBC adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit. Subsequently, in 1991 he played Neville Marsham in Danny Boyle's For the Greater Good and Dr.
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Īfter this, Fellowes decided to move back to England to further his career, and soon played a leading role in the 1987 TV series Knights of God as Brother Hugo, the "ambitious and ruthless second-in-command" of a futuristic military cult. When he asked the film's director why he was not able to get an interview in Los Angeles, he was told that they felt the best actors were in Britain. He was unable to get an audition for the Disney film Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) in Los Angeles, but was offered the role when he was visiting England. He believed that his breakthrough had come when he was considered to replace Hervé Villechaize as the assistant on the television series Fantasy Island, but the role went to actor Christopher Hewett instead. Career Televisionįellowes moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and played a number of small roles on television for the next two years, including a role in Tales of the Unexpected. He studied further at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights.

Fellowes said that he thinks he "learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually make a living in the film business." įellowes was educated at several private schools in Britain including Wetherby School, St Philip's School (a Catholic boys school in South Kensington) and Ampleforth College, which his father had preferred over Eton.

Sometimes "glamorous figures" would visit the Kingsleys' house. David Kingsley was head of British Lion Films, the company responsible for many Peter Sellers comedies. The friendship his family developed with another family in the village, the Kingsleys, influenced Fellowes. At the flat she'd be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and drink. My mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon.

Fellowes has described his father as one "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it. 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. The siblings' childhood home was at Wetherby Place, South Kensington, and afterwards at Chiddingly, East Sussex, where Fellowes lived from August 1959 until November 1988, and where his parents are buried. Peregrine's uncle was Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes (1883–1955), Air Commodore and DSO.įellowes has three older brothers: Nicholas Peregrine James, actor writer David Andrew and playwright Roderick Oliver. His great-grandfather was John Wrightson, a pioneer in agricultural education and the founder of Downton Agricultural College. His father was a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II. Fellowes was born into a family of the British landed gentry in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest of four boys, to Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes (1912–1999) and his British wife, Olwen Mary ( née Stuart-Jones).
