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Lee Cornes

Actor, WriterBorn January 15, 1951 (74 years)
Lee Cornes is an English television actor and writer born in Worcester.

A stand up comedian since 1980, he was a regular compere at London's Comedy Store throughout the 1980s and won best Stand Up Comedian at the Charrington London Fringe Awards in 1987.

Cornes appeared in three series of Blackadder, in two episodes of The Young Ones and as barman 'Dick Head' in the TV show Bottom. He made an appearance in the first episode of Filthy, Rich & Catflap as a binman. Appeared in the Comic Strip episode "Slags". Appearances on Saturday Night Live. Cornes also starred in children's drama Grange Hill as Mr. Jeff Hankin (1990–2002); provided voices for characters in the children's television series TUGS, and featured in the Doctor Who story "Kinda" as the Trickster (1982). He appeared in Red Dwarf as Paranoia in the series one episode "Confidence and Paranoia". He also appeared several times in the BBC Scotland sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, once as a DSS Clerk and again as a barman in a Highland pub.

He played a major role as the harassed talent agent Dickie Valentino in the 1994 partially-improvised comedy film There's No Business..., alongside comedy duos Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron) and The Oblivion Boys (Stephen Frost and Mark Arden).

He appeared in the 2002 S Club Juniors video "One Step Closer." In November 2010 he appeared as Dave in Episode 6 of E4 comedy Phoneshop. He appeared as the Tooting Flasher in Matt Berry's Toast of London pilot. Appeared in Hustle. Also appearances in French and Saunders, The Lenny Henry Show, The Detectives, After You've Gone, and My Family.

Stage appearances include Ken Campbell's The Warp at the Liverpool Everyman, several roles at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Figaro at The Watford Palace Theatre, as well as pantomime roles. Co-writer and performer The WOW Show at the Wyndham's Theatre. He toured Britain with Neal from the Young Ones.

Cornes was one of the lead writers for Mr Bean, The Animated Series, and a writer on Cavegirl and Channel 4's Gophers!. He was a co-writer of Channel 4's animation series The Bird, and writer/storyliner on What's Up Doc?, a writer and performer on Thames TV's After Hours and joint writer on two series of The WOW Show on Radio 4. He has appeared in various children's television shows such as My Parents are Aliens, Bear Behaving Badly, Jackanory.

In a 2010 interview in The Times, Cornes was cited as one of fellow comedian Sean Lock's biggest comedic influences. Lock said: "He’s not very well known but he is my main influence — he used to compere at the Comedy Store. He’s the comedians’ comedian. He used to be very unpredictable, which is a great skill in a comedian, not knowing where to go next. He also used to play the physics teacher in Grange Hill."

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • My Family

Known For

  • Bottom
  • Mr. Bean: The Animated Series
  • Grange Hill
  • The Detectives
  • TUGS
  • Colin's Sandwich
  • Gophers!
  • Cavegirl
  • Spot's Magical Christmas

Filmography

2012
Toast of London (TV Series) · as Flasher
2011
2009
PhoneShop (TV Series) · as Dave
2008
2008
Teenage Kicks (TV Series) · as Tim Bennet
2007
Bear Behaving Badly (TV Series) · as Todd
2007
After You've Gone (TV Series) · as Mr Deakin
2006
Jam and Jerusalem (TV Series) · as Patient
2004
Hustle (TV Series) · as Ray Bond
2002
15 Storeys High (TV Series) · as Cast
2000
My Family (TV Series) · as Council Official
1999
My Parents Are Aliens (TV Series) · as Mr. Cassidy
1995
1995
Eleven Men Against Eleven · as Journalist
1995
Jack & Jeremy's Police 4 · as Detective
1994
The All New Alexei Sayle Show (TV Series) · as Various Characters
1994
There's No Business · as Dickie Valentino
1993
The Detectives (TV Series) · as Doctor Pete
1991
The Trials of Oz · as Marty Feldman
1991
Performance (TV Series) · as Marty Feldman
1991
Bottom (TV Series) · as Dick Head
1989
TUGS (TV Series)
1989
I, Lovett (TV Series) · as Bingley
1988
Rab C Nesbitt (TV Series) · as D.s.s. Clerk
1988
Colin's Sandwich (TV Series) · as Graham
1988
Red Dwarf (TV Series) · as Paranoia
1987
The Love Child · as Man In Supermarket
1987
French & Saunders (TV Series) · as Dickie Valentino
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap (TV Series) · as Dustman
1985
Screen One (TV Series) · as Preston Scott
1984
The Lenny Henry Show (TV Series) · as Various Characters
1982
Blackadder (TV Series) · as Shelley
1982
The Young Ones (TV Series) · as Spasspecker
1982
The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) · as Arch Crippledick
1982
Uliisses · as Cast
1978
Grange Hill (TV Series) · as Mr. Hankin
1963
Doctor Who (TV Series) · as Trickster

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