Adrian Edmondson

Acting · 1.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 24, 1957
From: 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).

Works

88 films

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

20176.7

Guest House Paradiso

19996.1

Blood

20125.9

Eat the Rich

19876.2

The Best Birthday Ever

20226.7

Bottom: Exposed

20245.5

Summer School

1983

Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

20267.3

The Pope Must Die

19915.0

Rocky Horror Show Live

20157.0

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

Interlude in Prague

20175.8

An Audience With Victoria Wood

19885.3

The Comic Strip

19818.0

Bad News

19838.7

Miss Austen Regrets

20086.1

The Rizen

20174.8

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

20187.5

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

20057.5

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

20217.0

Gino: Full Story and Pics

1984

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

19866.6

Private Enterprise

1986

The Trick

20215.0

Demonella

1993

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

20187.0

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

20084.5

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

19847.0

Britain Beware!

2012

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

1990

Happy Families

1985

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

19897.7

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

19889.0

Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen

2026

Bottom Mindless Violence

200410.0

Dead on Time

19836.7

Rocky Horror Tribute Show

20086.2

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

19955.7

The Yob

1988

The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'

19995.0

Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime

19987.0

The Best of French & Saunders

2002

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

1994

Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door

19826.6

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

1993

Honest Decent & True

19867.0

The Supergrass

19856.1

Four Men in a Car

1998

The Strike

19887.0

GLC: The Carnage Continues

1990

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1983

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

19868.0

Filthy Rich & Catflap

19875.0

Slags

19842.0

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

1984

Les Dogs

1990

Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

19957.8

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

20237.0

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1982

The Rizen: Possession

20195.5

Five Go to Rehab

2012

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

1986

Codes

2026

More Bad News

19889.8

The Man

19997.0

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

1990

Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

19997.3

If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story

20077.0

Bottom Fluff

1996

Completely Bad News

2019

The Beat Generation

1983

Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

1992

Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island

19977.3

The Making of 'The Young Ones'

2007

King Rocker

20207.3

Dirty Movie

1984

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

20017.2

War

198310.0

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration

2006

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

20037.5

Red Nose of Courage

19928.0

Oxford

1990

News Hounds

1990

Bottom Live: The Stage Show

19938.0

Susie

1984

Just Like That!

1989

The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision

2008

Four Men in a Plane

2000