Adrian Edmondson

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Adrian Edmondson

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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).

Films Featuring Adrian Edmondson

Guest House Paradiso

19996.1

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

19889.0

Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island

19977.3

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

20037.5

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

20017.2

Bottom Mindless Violence

200410.0

Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

19957.8

Miss Austen Regrets

20086.1

Bottom Live: The Stage Show

19938.0

The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision

2008

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

19897.7

The Supergrass

19856.1

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

19866.6

An Audience With Victoria Wood

19885.3

Blood

20125.9

The Best of French & Saunders

2002

The Yob

1988

The Trick

20215.1

Dead on Time

19836.7

Les Dogs

1990

Demonella

1993

Summer School

1983

Five Go Mad in Dorset

1982

Four Men in a Car

1998

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

1984

War

198310.0

Four Men in a Plane

2000

The Beat Generation

1983

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1983

Dirty Movie

1984

Susie

1984

Gino: Full Story and Pics

1984

Slags

19842.0

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

1986

Private Enterprise

1986

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

1990

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

1990

Oxford

1990

Red Nose of Courage

19928.0

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

1993

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

Five Go to Rehab

2012

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

20237.0

The Pope Must Die

19915.0

News Hounds

1990

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

20057.5

Just Like That!

1989

Honest Decent & True

Honest Decent & True

19867.0

Eat the Rich

19876.2

Bottom: Exposed

20245.5

If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story

20077.0

Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door

19826.6

The Comic Strip

19818.0

Rocky Horror Tribute Show

20086.2

Rocky Horror Show Live

20157.0

The Rizen

20174.8

The Strike

19887.0

Interlude in Prague

20175.8

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

20176.7

The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'

19995.0

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

20187.5

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

19955.7

More Bad News

19889.8

Bad News

19838.7

The Rizen: Possession

20195.5

GLC: The Carnage Continues

1990

Completely Bad News

2019

Bottom Fluff

1996

Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

19997.3

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

20187.0

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

19868.0

Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime

19987.0

King Rocker

20207.3

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

20084.5

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

20217.0

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

19847.0

The Making of 'The Young Ones'

2007

Filthy Rich & Catflap

19875.0

The Man

19997.0

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration

2006

Britain Beware!

2012

The Best Birthday Ever

20226.7

Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

1992

Happy Families

1985

Codes

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

1994

Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

20267.3

Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen

2026

Blackadder

1983