Adrian Edmondson
Acting
- Born:
- 1957-01-24
- Place of birth:
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
Known For
Filmography
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen
Sam & Ade Go Birding
Alien: Earth
Bergerac
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
Bottom: Exposed
3 Body Problem
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Toad & Friends
A Spy Among Friends
The Best Birthday Ever
The Trick
The Pact
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
King Rocker
Out of Her Mind
Between the Covers
Completely Bad News
The Rizen: Possession
Back to Life
Cheat
Celebrity Catchphrase
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Save Me
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Bancroft
House of Games
Interlude in Prague
The Rizen
Genius
Urban Myths
One of Us
Upstart Crow
War and Peace
Rocky Horror Show Live
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Prey
Ade at Sea
Catchphrase
Gadget Man
Five Go to Rehab
Blood
Britain Beware!
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Ade in Britain
Death in Paradise
Monte Carlo or Bust
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
Teenage Kicks
Miss Austen Regrets
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Would I Lie to You?
Britain's Got More Talent
The Graham Norton Show
The One Show
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
School's Out
Great British Menu
Surviving Disaster
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Twisted Tales
Bottom Mindless Violence
Doctors and Nurses
Celebrity Mastermind
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
Spine Chillers
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
The Best of French & Saunders
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
Four Men in a Plane
Guest House Paradiso
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
The Man
Holby City
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
Four Men in a Car
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
Captain Star
Jonathan Creek
Midsomer Murders
Bottom Fluff
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
Look at the State We're In!
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
Ready, Steady, Cook
If You See God, Tell Him
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
Demonella
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Absolutely Fabulous
Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special
Red Nose of Courage
Pebble Mill
Bottom
The Pope Must Die
Rita Rudner
News Hounds
Les Dogs
Oxford
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Snakes and Ladders
Screen One
Press Gang
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Just Like That!
An Audience With Victoria Wood
This Morning
The Yob
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
More Bad News
The Strike
Eat the Rich
Going Live!
French & Saunders
Hardwicke House
Filthy Rich & Catflap
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Honest Decent & True
Saturday Live
Private Enterprise
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
The Dangerous Brothers
The Supergrass
Happy Families
Screen Two
Slags
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Gino: Full Story and Pics
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Susie
Dirty Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Natural World
Blackadder
Summer School
Bad News
The Beat Generation
War
Dead on Time
The Young Ones
Five Go Mad in Dorset
The Comic Strip Presents...
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
The Comic Strip
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
An Audience with...
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Film '72
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