Adrian Edmondson
Known for: Acting
Born: January 24, 1957
Place of birth: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
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Filmography
88 movies · 77 TV shows, newest first
7.3
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
2026
NR
Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen
2026
NR
Sam & Ade Go Birding
2026
NR
Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid
2026
7.3
Alien: Earth
2025
5.9
Bergerac
2025
5.3
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
2024
5.5
Bottom: Exposed
2024
7.5
3 Body Problem
2024
7.0
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
NR
Toad & Friends
2023
6.5
A Spy Among Friends
2022
6.7
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
5.1
The Trick
2021
7.0
The Pact
2021
7.0
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
7.3
King Rocker
2020
5.5
Out of Her Mind
2020
5.5
Between the Covers
2020
NR
Completely Bad News
2019
5.5
The Rizen: Possession
2019
7.4
Back to Life
2019
6.3
Cheat
2019
10.0
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
7.0
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
6.4
Save Me
2018
7.5
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018
6.7
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
6.9
Bancroft
2017
6.1
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017
5.8
Interlude in Prague
2017
4.8
The Rizen
2017
7.5
Genius
2017
7.4
Urban Myths
2017
6.5
One of Us
2016
7.3
Upstart Crow
2016
7.5
War and Peace
2016
7.0
Rocky Horror Show Live
2015
7.1
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
6.8
Prey
2014
NR
Ade at Sea
2014
4.0
Catchphrase
2013
7.0
Gadget Man
2012
NR
Five Go to Rehab
2012
5.9
Blood
2012
NR
Britain Beware!
2012
6.9
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012
NR
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012
9.0
Ade in Britain
2011
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011NR
Monte Carlo or Bust
2010
6.7
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009
4.5
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
6.2
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
2008
4.2
Teenage Kicks
2008
6.1
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
7.0
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2007
NR
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
20074.5
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
7.8
Would I Lie to You?
2007
2.7
Britain's Got More Talent
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
4.4
The One Show
2006
NR
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
2006NR
School's Out
2006
6.5
Great British Menu
2006
6.7
Surviving Disaster
2006
7.5
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005
7.7
Twisted Tales
2005
10.0
Bottom Mindless Violence
20046.0
Doctors and Nurses
2004
6.0
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
7.5
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
2003
7.5
Spine Chillers
2003
8.0
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003
NR
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
7.1
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
2001
8.0
Mirrorball
2000
NR
Four Men in a Plane
2000
6.1
Guest House Paradiso
1999
5.0
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
1999
7.3
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
19997.0
The Man
1999
5.8
Holby City
1999
7.0
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998
NR
Four Men in a Car
1998
7.2
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
1997
6.6
Captain Star
1997
7.6
Jonathan Creek
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
NR
Bottom Fluff
1996
7.7
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
1995NR
Look at the State We're In!
1995
5.6
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
1995
NR
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994
8.0
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994
7.5
If You See God, Tell Him
1993
7.9
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
1993
NR
Demonella
1993
NR
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
NR
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
7.6
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
NR
Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special
1992
8.0
Red Nose of Courage
19924.1
Pebble Mill
1991
7.9
Bottom
1991
5.0
The Pope Must Die
1991
NR
Rita Rudner
1990
NR
News Hounds
1990
NR
Les Dogs
1990
NR
French & Saunders LIVE
1990
NR
Oxford
1990
NR
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
NR
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
NR
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
7.0
Snakes and Ladders
1989
7.2
Screen One
1989
7.5
Press Gang
1989
7.7
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
NR
Just Like That!
1989
5.3
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
5.2
This Morning
1988
NR
The Yob
1988
9.0
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
9.8
More Bad News
1988
7.0
The Strike
1988
6.2
Eat the Rich
1987
8.0
Going Live!
1987
7.4
French & Saunders
1987
5.2
Hardwicke House
1987
6.7
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
8.0
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
19867.0
Honest Decent & True
1986
7.0
Saturday Live
1986
NR
Private Enterprise
1986
6.6
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
NR
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
7.0
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
6.1
The Supergrass
1985
7.3
Happy Families
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
2.0
Slags
1984
NR
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
NR
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
7.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
NR
Susie
1984
NR
Dirty Movie
1984
NR
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
7.4
Natural World
1983
8.0
Blackadder
1983
NR
Summer School
1983
8.7
Bad News
1983
NR
The Beat Generation
1983
10.0
War
1983
6.6
Dead on Time
1983
7.9
The Young Ones
1982
NR
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
6.6
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
1982
8.0
The Comic Strip
1981
6.5
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
5.3
An Audience with...
1978
5.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball
19765.1
Film '72
1971NR
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