Adrian Edmondson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
176
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-01-24 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Adrian Edmondson
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
Midsomer Murders
Death in Paradise
The Graham Norton Show
The One Show
Alien: Earth
Genius
Holby City
3 Body Problem
Blackadder
Natural World
Absolutely Fabulous
Pebble Mill
Would I Lie to You?
War and Peace
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ready, Steady, Cook
Jonathan Creek
Blood
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An Audience with...
Dirty Movie
Going Live!
Great British Menu
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Slags
The Young Ones
Summer School
Oxford
Richard Osman's House of Games
Celebrity Mastermind
Susie
Press Gang
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
Demonella
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Gino: Full Story and Pics
Urban Myths
A Spy Among Friends
Celebrity Catchphrase
French & Saunders
Save Me
Bottom: Exposed
Britain's Got More Talent
The Pact
Bottom
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Guest House Paradiso
Between the Covers
Catchphrase
Rocky Horror Show Live
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Eat the Rich
One of Us
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
The Supergrass
Upstart Crow
Prey
The Comic Strip
Bancroft
Captain Star
Cheat
Spine Chillers
Twisted Tales
Gadget Man
The Trick
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Look at the State We're In!
The Secret Policeman's Ball
This Morning
Doctors and Nurses
Out of Her Mind
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
Miss Austen Regrets
Snakes and Ladders
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Happy Families
Surviving Disaster
Saturday Live
Hardwicke House
Rita Rudner
Toad & Friends
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
School's Out
Les Dogs
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Monte Carlo or Bust
Bad News
Interlude In Prague
Ade at Sea
The Pope Must Die
Dead on Time
Completely Bad News
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Filthy Rich & Catflap
If You See God, Tell Him
The Beat Generation
Bottom Fluff
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Teenage Kicks
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
Four Men in a Plane
The Dangerous Brothers
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
The Yob
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Five Go Mad in Dorset
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
Ade in Britain
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
An Audience With Victoria Wood
The Rizen
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
More Bad News
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
The Rizen: Possession
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Bottom Mindless Violence
The Best Birthday Ever
Just Like That!
War
The Strike
Honest Decent & True
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Four Men in a Car
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
The Best of French & Saunders
King Rocker
Five Go to Rehab
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Red Nose of Courage
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
Happy Families
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
The Man
News Hounds
Private Enterprise
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
Britain Beware!
