Acting
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.
Filmography
Madfabulous
Film · 2026
The Witness
Series · 2026
Duck & Frog
Series · 2026
Afterburn
Film · 2025
VE Day 80
Series · 2025
3 Body Problem
Series · 2024
My Lady Jane
Series · 2024
Napoleon
Film · 2023
Journey: A Voice Lost... and Found
Film · 2023
Hijack
Series · 2023
Juice
Series · 2023
The Chelsea Detective
Series · 2022
Pistol
Series · 2022
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Series · 2022
The Responder
Series · 2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Series · 2022
Trigger Point
Series · 2022
Shadow and Bone
Series · 2021
Wolfe
Series · 2021
The Larkins
Series · 2021
Six Minutes to Midnight
Film · 2020
King Rocker
Film · 2020
Miss Scarlet
Series · 2020
Truth Seekers
Series · 2020
Criminal: UK
Series · 2019
Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes
Series · 2019
Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal
Film · 2018
Funny Cow
Film · 2018
Eaten by Lions
Film · 2018
Johnny English Strikes Again
Film · 2018
Zanzibar
Film · 2018
Hang Ups
Series · 2018
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Film · 2017
Murder on the Blackpool Express
Film · 2017
Call Me Alvy
Film · 2017
Timewasters
Series · 2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
Series · 2017
Gunpowder
Series · 2017
Decline and Fall
Series · 2017
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
Film · 2016
The Crown
Series · 2016
Damned
Series · 2016
Brilliantman!
Film · 2015
Friday Download: The Movie
Film · 2015
Danger Mouse
Series · 2015
Cradle to Grave
Series · 2015
The Last Kingdom
Series · 2015
The IT Crowd Manual
Film · 2014
Set Fire to the Stars
Film · 2014
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
Film · 2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Series · 2014
Inside No. 9
Series · 2014
Utopia
Series · 2013
It's Kevin
Series · 2013
Death Comes to Pemberley
Series · 2013
Crackanory
Series · 2013
Psychobitches
Series · 2013
The Wedding Video
Film · 2012
Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens
Film · 2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Series · 2012
Them From That Thing
Series · 2012
Playhouse Presents
Series · 2012
Kevin Eldon - is Titting About
Film · 2011
Hugo
Film · 2011
Arthur Christmas
Film · 2011
Connected
Film · 2011
Game of Thrones
Series · 2011
How TV Ruined Your Life
Series · 2011
Game of Thrones
Series · 2011
Matt Hatter Chronicles
Series · 2011
Death in Paradise
Series · 2011
Campus
Series · 2011
Lizzie and Sarah
Film · 2010
Four Lions
Film · 2010
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
Film · 2010
D.O.A
Film · 2010
Mongrels
Series · 2010
Little Crackers
Series · 2010
Faintheart
Film · 2009
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Series · 2009
Horrible Histories
Series · 2009
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Series · 2009
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Series · 2009
Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
Film · 2008
Attila the Hun
Film · 2008
Dead Set
Series · 2008
Merlin
Series · 2008
Hot Fuzz
Film · 2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Film · 2007
World of Wrestling
Film · 2007
The Yellow House
Film · 2007
Skins
Series · 2007
Heroes and Villains
Series · 2007
M.I. High
Series · 2007
Hyperdrive
Series · 2006
Robin Hood
Series · 2006
Mayo
Series · 2006
The IT Crowd
Series · 2006
Saxondale
Series · 2006
Hotel Babylon
Series · 2006
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Film · 2005
Who I Am and What I Want
Film · 2005
Popetown
Series · 2005
Harry & Paul
Series · 2005
Doctor Who
Series · 2005
Nathan Barley
Series · 2005
Twisted Tales
Series · 2005
Funland
Series · 2005
Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are
Film · 2004
Spaced: Skip to the End
Film · 2004
Bill Bailey: Part Troll
Film · 2004
Piccadilly Jim
Film · 2004
I Am Not an Animal
Series · 2004
Nighty Night
Series · 2004
Hustle
Series · 2004
New Tricks
Series · 2004
Murder City
Series · 2004
Green Wing
Series · 2004
The Last Chancers
Series · 2004
Spine Chillers
Series · 2003
Celebrity Mastermind
Series · 2003
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Film · 2002
Look Around You
Series · 2002
15 Storeys High
Series · 2002
High Heels and Low Lifes
Film · 2001
The Junkies
Film · 2001
Combat Sheep
Film · 2001
Attention Scum
Series · 2001
World of Pub
Series · 2001
Jam
Series · 2000
Black Books
Series · 2000
Spaced
Series · 1999
Smack the Pony
Series · 1999
Hippies
Series · 1999
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
Series · 1998
Big Train
Series · 1998
In the Red
Series · 1998
I'm Alan Partridge
Series · 1997
Midsomer Murders
Series · 1997
Brass Eye
Series · 1997
Brass Eye
Series · 1997
Brass Eye
Series · 1997
Brass Eye
Series · 1997
Lee and Herring Live
Film · 1996
Cluub Zarathustra
Film · 1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Series · 1996
Silent Witness
Series · 1996
Fist of Fun
Series · 1995
Blue Heaven
Series · 1992
Packet of Three
Series · 1991
Red Dwarf
Series · 1988
Fahrenheit 451
Film · 1966
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
Film
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Icebreaker
Film
Untitled Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee project
Film
Bill's Included
Series