Kevin Eldon
Kevin Eldon is a British Actor, Comedian and Songwriter. He featured in the major British TV comedies of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam. In 2013, Eldon appeared in his own BBC sketch series It's Kevin. He has also appeared in minor speaking roles in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Eldon was born in Chatham, Kent. He has been a practising Buddhist since 1990. He has two children with his wife Holly, who he met in late 2005 on the set of Hyperdrive, where she was the art director. Eldon occupies half a page in Oliver Gray's book called Volume – A Cautionary Tale of Rock and Roll Obsession; this includes coverage of punk-era Hampshire where, in late 1978, with two schoolmates from Bay House School, Gosport, Eldon started a band named Virginia Doesn't. Virginia Doesn't's career peaked with a session broadcast on Radio One's John Peel Show on 18 October 1979. In early 1980, Virginia Doesn't morphed into The Time, in which Eldon was again the front man. The Time recorded and performed from April 1980 until August 1982, during which time the band gigged extensively and played support slots with The Jam, Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive and Bad Manners. The Time had songs included on several self-released tape compilations, although they never secured a recording contract. In August 1982, The Time became Gerry Hackett & The Fringes, a spoof Sixties revival band. On 6 November 1983 Gerry Hackett & The Fringes appeared on BBC South's 'The Cellar Show' presented by John Sessions. Eldon started on the stand-up circuit in the early 1990s performing an act in-character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has also, on occasion, done stand-up as himself. On the circuit, Eldon formed a friendship with stand-up comedian Stewart Lee, which would later lead to an invitation to work with him on the radio series Lee & Herring's Fist of Fun with Lee's comedy partner Richard Herring. Lee and Herring would usually refer to him as "the actor Kevin Eldon", in reference to his claim to being an actor rather than a comedian. Eldon's work sat well with that of Lee and Herring, and he continued to work with them on many of their projects, including The Lee & Herring Radio Show, Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy. He played recurring characters Simon Quinlank (the self-styled "King of Hobbies") and 'Rod Hull', a nonsensical version of Rod Hull with a prosthetic limb and an obsession with jelly, especially the 'green' variety. In 1994 and 1997, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part the comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra; other comedians in the troupe including Roger Mann, Johnny Vegas, Simon Munnery, and later Stewart Lee. They were given a Channel 4 pilot, which led to the television series Attention Scum! The book You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham praises the performers' talent. From March 2009, Eldon appeared in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle in a number of the show's sketches most often with Paul Putner.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · My Lady Jane as Dr. Butts
- 2024 · 3 Body Problem as Sir Thomas More
- 2023 · Napoleon as Dr Corvisart
- 2023 · Juice as Mr Majal
- 2023 · Hijack as Devlin
- 2022 · The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Narvi
- 2022 · Pistol as Bill Grundy
- 2022 · The Chelsea Detective as Roy Colin
- 2022 · The Responder as Neil
- 2022 · Trigger Point as Jeff Washington
- 2021 · The Larkins as Howard
- 2021 · Wolfe as Vincent Frayn
- 2021 · Shadow and Bone as The Apparat
- 2020 · Truth Seekers as Jack
- 2020 · Six Minutes to Midnight as Sergeant Simmons
- 2020 · Miss Scarlet as Jacob Bunce
- 2019 · Criminal: UK as Michael Walker
- 2018 · Johnny English Strikes Again as MI7 Night Duty Agent
- 2017 · Murder on the Blackpool Express as Kevin
- 2017 · Gunpowder as Sir John Hawksworth
- 2017 · Richard Osman's House of Games as Self - Contestant
- 2016 · The Crown as Priest Michael
- 2016 · The Comedian's Guide to Survival as Nick Secker
- 2015 · Danger Mouse as Penfold (voice)
- 2014 · Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Vince
- 2014 · The IT Crowd Manual as Self
- 2013 · Death Comes to Pemberley as Dr. McFee
- 2013 · Utopia as Tony Bradley
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as Martin
- 2011 · Hugo as Policeman
- 2011 · Arthur Christmas as Elf (voice)
- 2011 · Death in Paradise as Jeremy Herbert
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Camello
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Goldcloak
- 2010 · Lizzie and Sarah as Rick
- 2009 · Horrible Histories as
- 2008 · Dead Set as Joplin
- 2008 · Merlin as Trickler
- 2007 · Heroes and Villains as
- 2007 · Hitler: The Comedy Years as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2007 · Hot Fuzz as Sergeant Tony Fisher
- 2007 · Skins as Manfred
- 2006 · Robin Hood as
- 2006 · Saxondale as Martin
- 2006 · Mayo as
- 2006 · The IT Crowd as French Tech Support
- 2006 · Hyperdrive as First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
- 2005 · Harry & Paul as
- 2005 · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Man with Dog
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Ribbons
- 2004 · Green Wing as Scissors Bentley
- 2004 · Murder City as
- 2004 · Hustle as Anxious
- 2004 · New Tricks as Dr Neville Moroni
- 2002 · Look Around You as Tony Rudd
- 2001 · High Heels and Low Lifes as McGill
- 2000 · Black Books as Cleaner
- 2000 · Jam as Various
- 1999 · Spaced as Agent
- 1998 · Big Train as
- 1997 · I'm Alan Partridge as Mike Sampson
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
- 1997 · Brass Eye as Mr. Wastrey
- 1997 · Brass Eye as Alan / Belgian Comedian
- 1997 · Brass Eye as Prison Officer
- 1997 · Brass Eye as Spike Durnaburny
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- 1996 · Silent Witness as DI Dan Mason
- 1988 · Red Dwarf as 4 of 27
- Future · Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered as (voice)
- 2025 · VE Day 80 as Self
- 2022 · Don't Hug Me I'm Scared as Coffin (voice)
- 2020 · King Rocker as Self
- 2018 · Hang Ups as Terry Sparkes
- 2018 · Eaten by Lions as Ken
- 2018 · Funny Cow as Danny
- 2018 · Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal as Tenoroc (voice)
- 2017 · Call Me Alvy as Dr. Rubenstein
- 2017 · Timewasters as Professor John Logie Baird
- 2017 · Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes as
- 2017 · Decline and Fall as Mr. Levy
- 2016 · Damned as Martin Bickerstaff
- 2015 · Brilliantman! as Brilliantman
- 2015 · Cradle to Grave as
- 2015 · Friday Download: The Movie as Mr. Prim
- 2014 · Set Fire to the Stars as Stanley
- 2014 · Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s as Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
- 2013 · It's Kevin as Kevin / Various
- 2012 · Them From That Thing as Various
- 2012 · The Wedding Video as Andrew
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Servegood
- 2011 · Matt Hatter Chronicles as Tenoroc
- 2011 · Connected as Customer
- 2011 · Kevin Eldon - is Titting About as Himself
- 2011 · How TV Ruined Your Life as
- 2010 · Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind as Himself
- 2010 · D.O.A as Carl
- 2010 · Mongrels as Photographer
- 2010 · Four Lions as Sniper
- 2009 · Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle as
- 2009 · Faintheart as Alan
- 2008 · Bill Bailey: Tinselworm as Himself
- 2008 · Attila the Hun as Romulus
- 2007 · World of Wrestling as
- 2007 · The Yellow House as Jaques
- 2005 · Who I Am and What I Want as Pete
- 2005 · Funland as
- 2005 · Popetown as Cardinal Two (voice)
- 2005 · Nathan Barley as Nikolai the Barber
- 2005 · Twisted Tales as Wig Shop Proprietor
- 2004 · Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are as Miles (voice)
- 2004 · Bill Bailey: Part Troll as Member of Kraftwerk
- 2004 · Piccadilly Jim as Wizzy Wisbeach
- 2004 · I Am Not an Animal as Hugh the Monkey (voice)
- 2004 · Spaced: Skip to the End as Self
- 2004 · Nighty Night as Terry Tyrrell
- 2003 · Spine Chillers as Matt
- 2002 · 15 Storeys High as Nev
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as Antimony
- 2001 · Combat Sheep as Cooper (voice)
- 2001 · World of Pub as
- 2001 · Attention Scum as
- 1999 · Hippies as
- 1999 · Smack the Pony as Various Characters
- 1998 · In the Red as
- 1995 · Fist of Fun as
- 1966 · Fahrenheit 451 as Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
- Future · Madfabulous as
- Future · Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Icebreaker as (voice)
- 2001 · The Junkies as Kevin
- 1998 · This Morning with Richard Not Judy as
- Future · The Witness as DCI Mick Wickerson
- 1996 · Lee and Herring Live as Simon Quinlank
- 1996 · Cluub Zarathustra as Various
- 1992 · Blue Heaven as Waiter 1
- 1991 · Packet of Three as Kevin