Kevin Eldon
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.
Born: 03 October 1960
Played In
Madfabulous
John Wickens
The Witness
DCI Mick Wickerson
Duck & Frog
(voice)
Afterburn
Father Samson
VE Day 80
Self
My Lady Jane
Dr. Butts
3 Body Problem
Sir Thomas More
Napoleon
Dr Corvisart
Juice
Mr Majal
Hijack
Devlin
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Coffin (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Narvi
Pistol
Bill Grundy
The Chelsea Detective
Roy Colin
The Responder
Neil
Trigger Point
Jeff Washington
The Larkins
Howard
Wolfe
Vincent Frayn
Shadow and Bone
The Apparat
King Rocker
Self
Truth Seekers
Jack
Six Minutes to Midnight
Sergeant Simmons
Miss Scarlet
Jacob Bunce
Criminal: UK
Michael Walker
Johnny English Strikes Again
MI7 Night Duty Agent
Hang Ups
Terry Sparkes
Eaten by Lions
Ken
Funny Cow
Danny
Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal
Tenoroc (voice)
Call Me Alvy
Dr. Rubenstein
Murder on the Blackpool Express
Kevin
Gunpowder
Sir John Hawksworth
Timewasters
Professor John Logie Baird
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Richard Osman's House of Games
Self - Contestant
Decline and Fall
Mr Levy
The Crown
Priest Michael
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
Nick Secker
Damned
Martin Bickerstaff
The Last Kingdom
Bishop Erkenwald
Danger Mouse
Penfold (voice)
Brilliantman!
Brilliantman
Cradle to Grave
Vicar
Friday Download: The Movie
Mr. Prim
Set Fire to the Stars
Stanley
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
Inside No. 9
Vince
The IT Crowd Manual
Self
Death Comes to Pemberley
Dr. McFee
Crackanory
Self
Psychobitches
Witch of Endor
It's Kevin
Kevin / Various
Utopia
Tony Bradley
Them From That Thing
Various
The Wedding Video
Andrew
Playhouse Presents
Martin
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Servegood
Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens
Self
Hugo
Policeman
Arthur Christmas
Elf (voice)
Matt Hatter Chronicles
Tenoroc
Connected
Customer
Death in Paradise
Jeremy Herbert
Game of Thrones
Camello
Game of Thrones
Goldcloak
Campus
Doctor
Kevin Eldon - is Titting About
Self
How TV Ruined Your Life
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
Himself
D.O.A
Carl
Mongrels
Photographer
Four Lions
Sniper
Lizzie and Sarah
Rick
Horrible Histories
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Various Characters
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Fish
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Referee
Faintheart
Alan
Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
Himself
Dead Set
Joplin
Merlin
Trickler
Attila the Hun
Romulus
Heroes and Villains
World of Wrestling
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Yellow House
Jaques
Hot Fuzz
Sergeant Tony Fisher
Skins
Manfred
M.I. High
Space Controller
Robin Hood
Saxondale
Martin
Mayo
The IT Crowd
French Tech Support
Hyperdrive
First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
Who I Am and What I Want
Pete
Funland
Shadowman
Harry & Paul
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Man with Dog
Popetown
Cardinal Two (voice)
Doctor Who
Ribbons
Nathan Barley
Nikolai the Barber
Twisted Tales
Wig Shop Proprietor
Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are
Miles (voice)
The Last Chancers
Karl
Bill Bailey: Part Troll
Member of Kraftwerk
Piccadilly Jim
Wizzy Wisbeach
Green Wing
Scissors Bentley
I Am Not an Animal
Hugh the Monkey (voice)
Spaced: Skip to the End
Self
Murder City
Hustle
Anxious
Nighty Night
Terry Tyrrell
New Tricks
Dr Neville Moroni
Celebrity Mastermind
Spine Chillers
Matt
15 Storeys High
Nev
Look Around You
Tony Rudd
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Antimony
Combat Sheep
Cooper (voice)
High Heels and Low Lifes
McGill
World of Pub
The Junkies
Kevin
Attention Scum
Black Books
Cleaner
Jam
Various
Hippies
Peter Mountstewart
Spaced
Agent
Smack the Pony
Various Characters
Big Train
In the Red
Porno Shop Owner
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
I'm Alan Partridge
Mike Sampson
Midsomer Murders
Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
Brass Eye
Mr. Wastrey
Brass Eye
Alan / Belgian Comedian
Brass Eye
Prison Officer
Brass Eye
Spike Durnaburny
Cluub Zarathustra
Various
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self
Lee and Herring Live
Simon Quinlank
Silent Witness
DI Dan Mason
Fist of Fun
Blue Heaven
Waiter 1
Packet of Three
Kevin
Red Dwarf
4 of 27
Fahrenheit 451
Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
(voice)
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Icebreaker
(voice)
Untitled Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee project
Self
Bill's Included
Drew