Adrian Edmondson

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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Adrian Edmondson

Filmografia

Guest House Paradiso

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

Bottom Mindless Violence

Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

Io, Jane Austen

Bottom Live: The Stage Show

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

The Supergrass

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

An Audience With Victoria Wood

Blood

The Best of French & Saunders

The Yob

The Trick

Dead on Time

Les Dogs

Demonella

Summer School

Five Go Mad in Dorset

Four Men in a Car

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

War

Four Men in a Plane

The Beat Generation

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Dirty Movie

Susie

Gino: Full Story and Pics

Slags

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

Private Enterprise

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Oxford

Red Nose of Courage

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

Five Go to Rehab

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

The Pope Must Die

News Hounds

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

Just Like That!

Honest Decent & True

Mangia il ricco

Bottom: Exposed

If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story

Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door

The Comic Strip

Rocky Horror Tribute Show

Rocky Horror Show Live

The Rizen

The Strike

Interlude in Prague

Star Wars: Gli ultimi Jedi

The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

Le avventure del giovane Indiana Jones: Il tesoro dell'occhio del Pavone

More Bad News

Bad News

The Rizen: Possession

GLC: The Carnage Continues

Completely Bad News

Bottom Fluff

Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime

King Rocker

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques