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Acting
October 3, 1960
Chatham, Kent, England, UK
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.
Himself
2025
Dr. Butts
2024
Sir Thomas More
2024
Dr Corvisart
2023
Devlin
2023
Coffin (voice)
2022
Narvi
2022
Bill Grundy
2022
Roy Colin
2022
Neil
2022
as Himself
as Dr. Butts
as Sir Thomas More
as Dr Corvisart
as Devlin
as Coffin (voice)
as Narvi
as Bill Grundy
as Roy Colin
as Neil
as Jeff Washington
as Howard
as Vincent Frayn
as The Apparat
as Self
as Jack
as Sergeant Simmons
as Jacob Bunce
as Michael Walker
as MI7 Night Duty Agent
as Terry Sparkes
as Ken
as Danny
as Tenoroc (voice)
as Dr. Rubenstein
as Kevin
as Sir John Hawksworth
as Professor John Logie Baird
as Self - Contestant
as Mr. Levy
as Priest Michael
as Nick Secker
as Martin Bickerstaff
as Penfold (voice)
as Brilliantman
as Mr. Prim
as Stanley
as Self
as Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
as Vince
as Self
as Dr. McFee
as Kevin / Various
as Tony Bradley
as Various
as Andrew
as Martin
as Servegood
as Policeman
as Elf (voice)
as Tenoroc
as Customer
as Jeremy Herbert
as Camello
as Goldcloak
as Himself
as Himself
as Carl
as Photographer
as Sniper
as Rick
as Alan
as Himself
as Joplin
as Trickler
as Romulus
as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Jaques
as Sergeant Tony Fisher
as Manfred
as Martin
as French Tech Support
as First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
as Pete
as Man with Dog
as Cardinal Two (voice)
as Ribbons
as Nikolai the Barber
as Miles (voice)
as Member of Kraftwerk
as Wizzy Wisbeach
as Scissors Bentley
as Hugh the Monkey (voice)
as Self
as Anxious
as Terry Tyrrell
as Dr Neville Moroni
as Matt
as Nev
as Tony Rudd
as Antimony
as Cooper (voice)
as McGill
as Kevin
as Cleaner
as Various
as Agent
as Various Characters
as Mike Sampson
as Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
as Mr. Wastrey
as Alan / Belgian Comedian
as Prison Officer
as Spike Durnaburny
as Self
as Simon Quinlank
as DI Dan Mason
as Various
as Waiter 1
as 4 of 27
as Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
as DCI Mick Wickerson