Person Details

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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Homepage: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/kevin-eldon-1

Movie Involvements: 18

TV Involvements: 28


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Doctor Who
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8

Doctor Who

(2005) Ribbons
Game of Thrones
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9

Game of Thrones

(2011) Goldcloak
Midsomer Murders
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8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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7
Silent Witness
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8

Silent Witness

(1996) DI Dan Mason
The Crown
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8

The Crown

(2016) Priest Michael
Merlin
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8

Merlin

(2008) Trickler
Hijack
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8

Hijack

(2023) Devlin

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2025 Himself
2024 Dr. Butts
Sir Thomas More
2023 Dr Corvisart
Devlin
2022 Coffin (voice)
Narvi
Bill Grundy
Roy Colin
Neil
Jeff Washington
2021 Howard
Vincent Frayn
The Apparat
2020 Self
Jack
Sergeant Simmons
Jacob Bunce
2019 Michael Walker
Corporal Jones
2018 MI7 Night Duty Agent
Terry Sparkes
Ken
Danny
Tenoroc (voice)
Vince
Kevin
Sir John Hawksworth
Professor John Logie Baird
N/A
Self - Contestant
Mr. Levy
2016 Priest Michael
Nick Secker
Martin Bickerstaff
2015 Penfold (voice)
Brilliantman
N/A
Mr. Prim
2014 Stanley
Self
Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
Vince
Self
2013 Dr. McFee
Kevin / Various
Tony Bradley
2012 Various
Andrew
Martin
Servegood
2011 Policeman
Elf (voice)
Tenoroc
Customer
Jeremy Herbert
Camello
Goldcloak
Himself
N/A
2010 Himself
Carl
Photographer
Sniper
Rick
2009 N/A
N/A
Alan
2008 Himself
Joplin
Trickler
Romulus
2007 N/A
N/A
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jaques
Sergeant Tony Fisher
Manfred
2006 N/A
Martin
N/A
French Tech Support
First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
2005 Pete
N/A
N/A
Man with Dog
Cardinal Two (voice)
Ribbons
Nikolai the Barber
N/A
2004 Miles (voice)
Member of Kraftwerk
Wizzy Wisbeach
Scissors Bentley
Hugh the Monkey (voice)
Self
N/A
Anxious
Terry Tyrrell
Dr Neville Moroni
2003 Matt
2002 Nev
Tony Rudd
Antimony
2001 Cooper (voice)
McGill
N/A
Kevin
N/A
2000 Cleaner
Various
1999 N/A
Agent
Various Characters
1998 N/A
N/A
N/A
1997 Mike Sampson
Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
Mr. Wastrey
Alan / Belgian Comedian
Prison Officer
Spike Durnaburny
1996 Self
Simon Quinlank
DI Dan Mason
Various
1995 N/A
1992 Waiter 1
1988 4 of 27
1966 Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
N/A
DCI Mick Wickerson
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2013 Creator
1999 Additional Writing
Year Role Movie/Tv

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