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).
Movies (83)
Bottom: Exposed
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
The Trick
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
King Rocker
2020
Completely Bad News
2019
The Rizen: Possession
2019
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
Interlude in Prague
2017
The Rizen
2017
Rocky Horror Show Live
2015
Five Go to Rehab
2012
Blood
2012
Britain Beware!
2012
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
2008
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
2008
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2007
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
2006
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
2003
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
2001
Four Men in a Plane
2000
Guest House Paradiso
1999
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
1999
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
1999
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998
Four Men in a Car
1998
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
1997
Bottom Fluff
1996
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
1995
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
1995
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
1993
Demonella
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special
1992
Red Nose of Courage
1992
The Pope Must Die
1991
News Hounds
1990
Les Dogs
1990
Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Just Like That!
1989
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
The Yob
1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
More Bad News
1988
The Strike
1988
Eat the Rich
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
Private Enterprise
1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
The Supergrass
1985
Happy Families
1985
Slags
1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
Susie
1984
Dirty Movie
1984
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
Summer School
1983
Bad News
1983
The Beat Generation
1983
War
1983
Dead on Time
1983
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
1982
The Comic Strip
1981
TV Shows (88)
Sam & Ade Go Birding
2026
Alien: Earth
2025
Bergerac
2025
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
2024
3 Body Problem
2024
Toad & Friends
2023
A Spy Among Friends
2022
The Pact
2021
Out of Her Mind
2020
Between the Covers
2020
Back to Life
2019
Cheat
2019
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
Save Me
2018
Bancroft
2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
Genius
2017
Urban Myths
2017
One of Us
2016
Upstart Crow
2016
War and Peace
2016
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
Prey
2014
Catchphrase
2013
Gadget Man
2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
Ade in Britain
2011
Death in Paradise
2011
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009
Teenage Kicks
2008
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Britain's Got More Talent
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The One Show
2006
Great British Menu
2006
Surviving Disaster
2006
Twisted Tales
2005
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Spine Chillers
2003
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003
Holby City
1999
Captain Star
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
If You See God, Tell Him
1993
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
Bottom
1991
Rita Rudner
1990
Snakes and Ladders
1989
Press Gang
1989
This Morning
1988
Going Live!
1987
French & Saunders
1987
Hardwicke House
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
Saturday Live
1986
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Happy Families
1985
Natural World
1983
Blackadder
1983
The Young Ones
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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1982
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Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
An Audience with...
1978
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
