Following his education, he spent some years at the
Bristol Old Vic, before earning some minor and supporting television roles. Since 1969, Strauli has appeared in at least two films and over twenty-five television productions. In 1973 he appeared in
On We Go, a series of 15 minutes episodes conceived to learn English. Strauli played
Bunny Manders, the assistant to
A.J. Raffles, the gentleman thief in the
Yorkshire Television series
Raffles (1975–1977). He later appeared as feeble
hospital patient Norman Binns in the
ITV sitcom Only When I Laugh, occupying a bed in a ward next to characters played by
James Bolam and
Peter Bowles and attended by doctor
Richard Wilson. Strauli was then recruited by the show's writer,
Eric Chappell, to replace
Richard Beckinsale in the film version of
Rising Damp (another of Chappell's shows) as a new character, John, an art student. He appeared as Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (1978) and Claudio in Measure for Measure (1979) as part of The
BBC Television Shakespeare. Played a leading character, Paul Hatfield, in ITV 1985-86 sitcom
Full House (known as
Mixed Doubles in the United States) (1985) and also featured in some of
Victoria Wood's sketch shows. In recent years he has concentrated predominantly on theatre work. He appeared in the TV movie
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) as wireless operator
Harold Cottam, and in 3 episodes of the 1987 television serial of
Fortunes of War playing Toby Lush. He played Nigel Smith in 1 episode of:
Bergerac: "Tangos in the Night" the same year. Strauli also appeared in
Doctors as Paul Woodford in "God's Gift"(2000),
Down to Earth as Mr. Bell in ‘The Great Escape’(2000), and
Waking the Dead, playing Duncan Sanderson MP, in Parts 1 and 2 of "False Flag" (2004). ==References==