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Peter Baynham

Producer, Writer, Actor, Director, Additional CreditsBorn June 28, 1963 (61 years)
Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter and performer. He is best known for appearing in a series of comedic Pot Noodle television adverts in the 1990s. His work largely represents collaborations with comedy figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Sarah Smith. Born in Cardiff, Baynham served in the Merchant Navy after leaving school and later pursued a career in comedy — first in stand-up, and then as a writer and performer for various news and sketch comedies in radio and television while enjoying personal fame starring in Pot Noodle adverts. He then became a writer in feature film.

In television, with Iannucci he is writer for I'm Alan Partridge, developing the character Alan Partridge as performed by Coogan, and as writer and host of the Armistice review shows. With Morris, he is writer for The Day Today, Brass Eye, and Jam. Baynham himself created the animated series I Am Not an Animal. In feature film, with Baron Cohen he is writer for Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Brüno (2009), Grimsby (2016), and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020). With Smith, he is writer for Arthur Christmas (2011) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). With Iannucci and Coogan, he is writer for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013). Other features as writer include Arthur (2011) and Hotel Transylvania (2012).

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Known For

  • The Dictator
  • Borat
  • Brüno
  • Hotel Transylvania
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Arthur
  • Arthur Christmas
  • The Brothers Grimsby
  • Alan Partridge
  • I'm Alan Partridge
  • Ron's Gone Wrong
  • Brass Eye
  • Jam
  • Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge
  • Big Train
  • The Day Today
  • Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed 'Sub-acceptable' by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision
  • Borat's American Lockdown & Debunking Borat

Filmography

2021
Ron's Gone Wrong · as Executive Producer
2021
2021
Borat's American Lockdown & Debunking Borat (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2021
Borat's American Lockdown · as Executive Producer
2020
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm · as Executive Producer
2016
2013
Alan Partridge · as Executive Producer
2012
The Dictator · as Executive Producer
2009
Brüno · as Associate Producer
2006
Borat · as Co-Producer
2003
Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge · as Associate Producer
1997
I'm Alan Partridge (TV Series)

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