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Adrian Edmondson

Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Composer, Additional CreditsBorn January 24, 1957 (68 years)
Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Midsomer Murders
  • Interlude in Prague
  • Dead on Time
  • Ade in Britain

Known For

  • The Young Ones
  • Bottom
  • Guest House Paradiso
  • One of Us
  • War & Peace (2016)
  • Bottom Live
  • Terkel in Trouble
  • Jonathan Creek
  • Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour
  • The Comic Strip Presents...
  • Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
  • A Spy Among Friends
  • Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
  • Bancroft
  • Prey (2014)
  • The Supergrass
  • Rain Dogs
  • Bottom 2001: An Arse Oddity
  • Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
  • Filthy Rich & Catflap

Filmography

2025
Alien: Earth (TV Series) · as Atom Eins
2024
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story (TV Series) · as Phil
2024
3 Body Problem (TV Series) · as Denys Porlock
2023
Toad & Friends (TV Series) · as Toad
2023
Rain Dogs (TV Series) · as Lenny
2022
A Spy Among Friends (TV Series) · as Sir Roger Hollis
2021
Best Birthday Ever · as Granny
2021
The Trick · as Edward Acton
2021
The Pact (2021) (TV Series) · as Richard
2020
Out of Her Mind (TV Series) · as Lewis
2019
The Rizen: Possession · as The Interviewer
2019
Summer of Rockets (TV Series) · as Max Dennis
2019
Back to Life (TV Series) · as John Boback
2019
Cheat (2019) (TV Series) · as William Vaughan
2018
2018
Save Me (2018) (TV Series) · as Gideon Charles
2017
2017
Bancroft (TV Series) · as Superintendent Cliff Walker
2017
2017
2017
The Rizen · as Interviewer
2017
Genius (2017) (TV Series) · as David Hilbert
2017
Urban Myths (TV Series) · as Leslie Conn
2016
One of Us (TV Series) · as Peter Elliot
2016
Upstart Crow (TV Series) · as Dogberry
2016
War & Peace (2016) (TV Series) · as Ilya Rostov
2015
2015
Rocky Horror Show Live · as Narrator
2014
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) (TV Series) · as Noodle Pete (voice, English Version)
2014
Prey (2014) (TV Series) · as Dci Warner
2012
Gadget Man (TV Series)
2012
Blood · as Tom Tiernan
2012
2011
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (TV Series) · as Headmaster Wackville
2011
2011
Death in Paradise (TV Series) · as Charles Crabtree
2010
2010
Strike Back (TV Series) · as James Mckitterick
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments · as Baron Von Richthoven/self
2008
Teenage Kicks (TV Series)
2008
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision · as Sir Adrian Dangerous
2007
2007
A Bucket O' French and Saunders (TV Series) · as Cast
2007
Miss Austen Regrets · as Henry Austen
2006
2006
Surviving Disaster (TV Series)
2005
Twisted Tales (UK) (TV Series)
2004
2004
Terkel in Trouble · as Terkel
2003
2003
Spine Chillers (TV Series)
2003
2003
Bottom: Series One · as Eddie Hitler (various Segments)
2002
2001
1999
1999
1999
Holby City (TV Series) · as Percy 'abra' Durant
1998
Jack and the Beanstalk · as Dame Dolly
1997
1997
1997
Captain Star (TV Series)
1997
Jonathan Creek (TV Series) · as Brendan Baxter
1997
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Hugo Welles
1996
1995
1995
1994
Anna Lee (TV Series) · as Dominic Jones
1993
If You See God, Tell Him (TV Series) · as Gordon Spry
1993
Bottom Live · as Eddie
1992
Absolutely Fabulous (TV Series) · as Hamish
1991
Bottom (TV Series) · as Edward Elizabeth Hitler
1991
The Pope Must Diet · as Father Rookie
1991
Comic Relief · as Vim Fuego
1989
Snakes and Ladders (TV Series) · as Giles Tewkesbury
1989
Press Gang (TV Series) · as Simon Knowles
1987
Eat the Rich · as Charles
1987
French & Saunders (TV Series) · as John
1987
Hardwicke House (TV Series) · as Tiny
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap (TV Series) · as Edward Catflap
1986
1986
1985
Screen One (TV Series) · as Phil Burke
1985
The Supergrass · as Dennis Carter
1985
Happy Families (TV Series) · as Guy Fuddle
1985
EastEnders (TV Series) · as Daniel Cook
1985
Saturday Live (TV Series)
1984
Screen Two (TV Series) · as Alun Pickersgill
1984
The Lenny Henry Show (TV Series) · as Various Characters
1984
Spitting Image (TV Series) · as Harold Angryperson
1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life? · as Eddie Moonson
1983
Natural World (TV Series) · as Narrator
1983
Bad News · as Vim Fuego/alan Metcalfe
1983
1982
Blackadder (TV Series) · as Baron Von Richtoven
1982
The Young Ones (TV Series) · as Vyvyan
1982
The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) · as Dick
1982
1981
1971
Masterpiece (2017) (TV Series) · as Henry Austen
1965
Jackanory (TV Series) · as Storyteller

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