Adrian Edmondson

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jan 24, 1957 (68 years old)

Adrian Edmondson

Known For

Bottom: Exposed
2h 0m
Movie 2024

Bottom: Exposed

Adrian Edmondson gives a first-hand account of making the hit show "Bottom" with the late, great Rik Mayall. His account comes alongside contributions from a host of the show's cast, crew and fans.

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
1h 29m
Movie 2023

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, silliness and, above all, friendship.

A Spy Among Friends
TV Show 2022

A Spy Among Friends

Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.

The Trick
1h 29m
Movie 2021

The Trick

The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism. With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action.

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
1h 10m
Movie 2021

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.

King Rocker
1h 30m
Movie 2020

King Rocker

How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.

Out of Her Mind
TV Show 2020

Out of Her Mind

Heartbreak, family and how to survive them - and just why is everyone pairing up and having babies? A deliriously surreal journey into the mind of Sara Pascoe.

The Rizen: Possession
1h 30m
Movie 2019

The Rizen: Possession

A group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. But what they unleashed could almost tear our world apart.

Cheat
0h 45m
TV Show 2019

Cheat

University lecturer Dr Leah Dale has always prided herself on her academic integrity so when final year student Rose, submits a suspiciously top-grade essay, Leah is quick to call her out. But there’s more going on than meets the eye as Rose takes the challenge as a personal affront, and what begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception soon spirals out of control.

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
1h 30m
Movie 2018

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

Biography

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).

Acting

2024
Bottom: Exposed
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2022
A Spy Among Friends
2021
The Trick
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2020
King Rocker
2020
Out of Her Mind
2019
The Rizen: Possession
2019
Cheat
2018
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
Bancroft
2017
Interlude In Prague
2017
The Rizen
2016
One of Us
2016
War and Peace
2015
Rocky Horror Show Live
2014
Ronja the Robber's Daughter
2012
Five Go to Rehab
2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2011
Ade in Britain
2010
Monte Carlo or Bust
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Teenage Kicks
2008
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
2007
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2007
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2004
Doctors and Nurses
2003
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
1997
Captain Star
1995
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
1995
Look at the State We're In!
1993
If You See God, Tell Him
1993
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
1993
Demonella
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1991
Bottom
1990
News Hounds
1990
Les Dogs
1990
Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1989
Snakes and Ladders
1989
Happy Families
1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Just Like That!
1988
The Yob
1988
More Bad News
1988
The Strike
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1986
Honest Decent & True
1986
Saturday Live
1986
Private Enterprise
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
The Dangerous Brothers
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Alien: Earth

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