Julian Orchard

Julian Orchard was an English comedy actor who trained at Shrewsbury School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and became known for playing lanky, effete dandies. He appeared in four Carry On films, among them Don't Lose Your Head (1966), Carry On Doctor (1967) and Carry On Henry (1971), and took the part of the flamboyant Duke of Montague in The Slipper and the Rose (1976). On television he had a regular role as the poet Roland Milk in Spike Milligan's The World of Beachcomber, played Snodgrass in the BBC musical Pickwick in 1969 and Mr Oliver Pettigrew in Whack-O! from 1971 to 1972. In 1974 he joined the National Theatre Company and performed at the Old Vic in Peter Hall's production of The Tempest with Arthur Lowe and John Gielgud, and he also played the Ugly Sister and the Dame in pantomimes at the London Palladium.