Adrian Edmondson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
175
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-01-24 (68 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
Alien: Earth
The One Show
3 Body Problem
Holby City
Genius
Ready, Steady, Cook
Would I Lie to You?
Pebble Mill
Natural World
Blackadder
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Comic Strip Presents...
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Jonathan Creek
Absolutely Fabulous
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
An Audience with...
War and Peace
Great British Menu
Going Live!
Les Dogs
The Young Ones
Richard Osman's House of Games
Blood
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
Press Gang
Bottom
Celebrity Catchphrase
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
The Trick
The Rizen
Oxford
Urban Myths
Slags
Upstart Crow
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Celebrity Mastermind
Catchphrase
The Strike
The Supergrass
Bancroft
Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Susie
One of Us
Save Me
Britain's Got More Talent
A Spy Among Friends
French & Saunders
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
The Pact
Miss Austen Regrets
Prey
Dirty Movie
Spine Chillers
Summer School
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Interlude In Prague
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Guest House Paradiso
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
Eat the Rich
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Cheat
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Honest Decent & True
Demonella
More Bad News
Between the Covers
The Yob
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
Dead on Time
Gadget Man
The Pope Must Die
Gino: Full Story and Pics
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
The Rizen: Possession
Twisted Tales
GLC: The Carnage Continues
The Beat Generation
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
School's Out
Red Nose of Courage
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Saturday Live
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Look at the State We're In!
Surviving Disaster
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Happy Families
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Rocky Horror Show Live
The Comic Strip
This Morning
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
The Best of French & Saunders
Rita Rudner
Bad News
Doctors and Nurses
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Hardwicke House
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
The Best Birthday Ever
Toad & Friends
Out of Her Mind
The Dangerous Brothers
Teenage Kicks
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
Captain Star
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Ade in Britain
Snakes and Ladders
Bottom: Exposed
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Four Men in a Car
Monte Carlo or Bust
If You See God, Tell Him
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
King Rocker
Five Go Mad in Dorset
Bottom Mindless Violence
The Man
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
News Hounds
Ade at Sea
Five Go to Rehab
Just Like That!
War
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Four Men in a Plane
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
Private Enterprise
Britain Beware!
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
Completely Bad News
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
Bottom: Christmas Special
Bottom Fluff
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
