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British actor and comedian

Kevin Eldon (born 2 October 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, This Morning with Richard Not Judy, 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, whom 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.

Eldon has appeared in many British comedy shows from the 1990s onwards. One of his first appearances on television was in 1995 in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge as Fanny Thomas, a foul mouthed transvestite chef and then later appeared on I'm Alan Partridge as the laughing racist, Mike Samson. During the 1990s, he worked with such comedians as Simon Pegg, Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Amelia Bullmore and others in the sketch comedy series Big Train. One of Eldon's more notable characters for Big Train, George Martin, was inspired by his impression of the Beatles producer. He had previously worked with some of the cast in the satirical series Brass Eye, and the dark comedy Jam, both written by Christopher Morris. Eldon would later act in Nathan Barley and the 2010 film Four Lions as a police sniper (also written by Christopher Morris). In 2004, Eldon appeared in the BAFTA award winning dark comedy Nighty Night as Terry Tyrrell, husband to Julia Davis' character. They also appeared later in Hunderby (another dark comedy written by Julia Davis), Little Crackers and Psychobitches. He worked again with Pegg in an episode in the sitcom Spaced with Mark Gatiss, both of whom played two Matrix style government agents, and in the comedy film Hot Fuzz where he played Sergeant Tony Fisher. Eldon has appeared on stage and screen numerous times with the comedian Bill Bailey; they performed as a spoof of the German band Kraftwerk, singing German versions of the "Hokey Cokey" and The Wurzels song "The Combine Harvester" for the recorded version of Bill Bailey's Part Troll comedy tour, along with two others (John Moloney and Martin Trenaman). He played the same role in Bailey's 2007 Tinselworm tour, Channel 4's Comedy Gala in 2010, and Bailey's 2010 Dandelion Mind tour. In late 2006, Eldon, alongside Bill Bailey, helped to organise and produce a short tour and a West End run of Pinter's People at the Haymarket Theatre, London. The show was a collection of sketches written by Harold Pinter, also starring Geraldine McNulty and Sally Phillips. They appeared together again when Eldon was a panellist on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2007 (with Bailey as team captain), as well as on the 'Dave' show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. They also acted together in the sitcom Black Books 'Grapes of Wrath' episode, where Eldon played "The Cleaner". Eldon has also had minor guest starring roles in numerous comedy projects, including Smack the Pony, Green Wing, The IT Crowd and The Kennedys. In February 2010, Eldon appeared in the pilot for a "sort of sketch show" called Missing Scene. In 2011 he appeared in sketches throughout How TV Ruined Your Life, and with Paul Whitehouse, as one of a pair of women 1950s typists in season four of Harry and Paul. In October 2013, Eldon read his own short story "What do you say?" on the storytelling series Crackanory, an adult oriented remake of the children's television series Jackanory. In 2013, Eldon was given a six part sketch comedy series called It's Kevin, broadcast on BBC Two. The show had many guest stars, mostly comedians that Eldon had already worked with before. Every episode ended with a song, including: "Mobile Phone", sung by the mock Swiss pop duo Popsox played by Eldon and Bill Bailey; "Brad", where the bully character Brad was played by Peter Serafinowicz; and "Pension Rap". Regular characters included the obnoxious poet Paul Hamilton; Stanley Duthorpe, the fictional man from the North of England; and an offensive French musician. These characters also appeared in Eldon's stand up DVD Kevin Eldon is Titting About. Eldon also wrote a spoof biography on Paul Hamilton called "My Prefect Cousin: A Short Biography of Paul Hamilton" in 2013 where he pretends that Hamilton is his own cousin. Big Train writer Arthur Matthews was one of the guest writers for the show. Eldon co authored the theme tune, and is script editor for, the children's series Genie in the House. He provided the voice of Penfold in the 2015 revival series of Danger Mouse. He also appeared in the 2015 series of the children's comedy sketch show Horrible Histories as William the Conqueror performing a parody version of Korean popstar PSY's hit, Gangnam Style called "Norman Style". He has also been a contestant on the gameshow Pointless Celebrities and was winner in a 2014 episode of Celebrity Mastermind, where his specialist subject was "The Music of The Beatles". Eldon voiced the character of Frobisher in the 2012 PlayStation Vita game Frobisher Says, and provided voice work for the 2013 indie game Gun Monkeys by Size Five Games. In 2019, he played Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad's Army.

From 1997 to 1999, Eldon appeared in BBC Radio 1 show, Blue Jam, which was later adapted into the TV series Jam. In 2001, Eldon appeared in the non canon Doctor Who four part webcast series "Death Comes to Time", in which he played Antimony, a companion to the Seventh Doctor. In 2008, Eldon presented Poets' Tree, a four part "poetry type programme" for BBC Radio 4, in the character of Paul Hamilton, which was co written and edited by Stewart Lee. Eldon has also written and starred in a six part series of monologues as people from different professions, collectively entitled Speakers, broadcast on the London art radio station Resonance FM. He has also appeared in a CERN podcast with Simon Munnery. In 2012 and 2014, he produced his own radio series called Kevin Eldon Will See You Now which aired on Radio 4. Between 2009 and 2013, Eldon appeared as both Dean the Dwarf and Kreech, the "Right Hand of Darkness" in the BBC Radio 4 parody of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy called ElvenQuest. He has made guest appearances on Radio 4's Fags, Mags and Bags, North by Northamptonshire and The Horne Section. He was also part of 7th series of the tag team interview radio series Chain Reaction. He was interviewed by John Cooper Clarke and he then interviewed Mark Steel. Between 2016 and 2021, Eldon appeared in four series of Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, a comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 4. He also appeared in Quanderhorn, a science fiction comedy radio series written by Andrew Marshall and Rob Grant. The first series was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 4 in 2018, and a second in 2020.

YearTitleRoleNotes1992Packing Them InBoyle8 episodes1995Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan PartridgeFanny ThomasEpisode: "Knowing Me, Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge"1995–1996Fist of FunSimon Quinlank / Rod Hull / Various rolesRegular cast1995–1997The Sunday ShowGuy Boudelaire / Dr Brebner / Various rolesRegular cast1997I'm Alan PartridgeMike SampsonEpisode: "Towering Alan"1997–2001Brass EyeVarious rolesRegular cast1998–1999This Morning with Richard Not JudyVarious rolesRegular cast1998–2002Big TrainVarious rolesRegular cast2000JamVarious rolesRegular castBlack BooksThe CleanerEpisode: "Grapes of Wrath"2001SpacedAgentEpisode: "Back"Attention ScumVarious rolesRegular castWorld of PubDodgey PhilRegular castDoctor Who: Death Comes to TimeAntimony3 episodesComedy LabVarious rolesEpisode: "Uncle Rubbish Presents Shit Club" (voice)2001–2003Smack the PonyVarious roles3 episodes2004Nighty NightTerry TyrrellMain cast (series 1)Green WingScissors BentleyEpisode: "Tangled Webs"I Am Not an AnimalHugh the Monkey / additional voicesRegular cast2005Piccadilly JimWizzy WisbeachTV filmShakespeare's Happy EndingsShakespeareTV filmNathan BarleyNikolai the Barber2 episodesWho I Am and What I WantPeteTV shortFunlandThe Shadowman5 episodes2006PopetownCardinal TwoRegular cast (voice)2006–2007HyperdriveYorkRegular cast2007M. I. HighSpace ControllerEpisode: "Nerd Alert"The Yellow HouseJacquesTV filmKombat Opera PresentsMelvynn BraggEpisode: "The South Bragg Show"SaxondaleMartin1 episodeNever Mind the BuzzcocksHimselfSeries 21, episode 6World of WrestlingMcManusTV shortComedy LabVarious rolesEpisode: "Knife&Wife" (voice)2008SkinsManfredEpisode: "Sid"New TricksDr Neville MoroniEpisode: "Magic Majestic"Dead SetJoplinRegular cast2009Robin HoodScropeEpisode: "Sins of the Father"MerlinTricklerEpisode: "Sweet Dreams"Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Series 1Various roles6 episodes2010Little CrackersRon JohnwaysEpisode: "The Kiss"Channel 4's Comedy GalaHimselfTV specialThe IT CrowdFrench Tech SupportEpisode: "Bad Boys"2011How TV Ruined Your LifeVarious roles4 episodesCampusDoctorEpisode: "Post Coital"This is JinsyEdery MoltEpisode: "Ool Bat"North by NorthamptonshireKen5 episodes2011–2015Matt Hatter ChroniclesTenorocRegular cast (voice)2012The Bleak Old Shop of StuffServegood3 episodesHunderbyJohn Whiffin4 episodesRuddy Hell! It's Harry and PaulVarious roles8 episodes2013It's KevinHimself / various rolesRegular castCrackanoryHimselfEpisode: "Fakespeare & What Do You Say? "Death Comes to PemberleyDr. McFee3 episodes2014Mr. SloaneDole OfficerEpisode: "Everybody Must Get Sloaned"Playhouse PresentsMartinEpisode: "Damned"UtopiaTony Bradley1 episodeThe Life of Rock with Brian PernLennie Monkton1 episodePsychobitchesWitch of Endor1 episodeOnly ConnectHimself – CuriositiesBBC Children in Need specialThe Alternative Comedy ExperienceHimself3 episodesStewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Series 3Various roles2 episodes2015Brilliantman!Brilliantman / Ian HedgeSky UK special (also writer and associate producer)Horrible HistoriesWilliam the ConquerorEpisode: "Wicked William the Conqueror"Cradle to GraveVicar1 episodeThe KennedysBrianEpisode: "Valentine"BullMr. Mumford2 episodesJekyll and HydeLandlordMiniseries, episode: "Black Dog"2015–presentDanger MousePenfoldMain cast (voice)2016Lost Sitcoms: Hancock's Half HourJohn Vere1 episodeRed Dwarf XI4 of 27Episode: "Twentica" DamnedMartin BickerstaffRegular cast2016–2017Game of ThronesCamello / Goldcloak3 episodes2017GunpowderSir Joseph Hawksworth1 episodeDetectoristsAuctioner1 episodeMurder On The Blackpool ExpressKevinTV filmTimewastersJohn Logie Baird1 episode2018Inside No. 9VinceEpisode: "Zanzibar"EastEndersVictor1 episodeDoctor WhoRibbonsEpisode: "It Takes You Away"The Last KingdomBishop ErkenwaldSeries 32019CavendishRollieRegular castDad's Army: The Lost EpisodesLance Corporal Jones3 episodesCriminal: UKMichael Walker1 episodeThe CrownPriest Michael1 episode2019–2023SanditonReverend Hankins15 episodes 2020Miss Scarlet and The DukeJournalistEpisode: “Memento Mori”Midsomer MurdersTerry 'Groucho' BelliniSeries 20, episode 6: "Send in the Clowns"2021 Silent WitnessDI Dan MasonEpisode: "Redemption"Shadow and BoneThe Apparat2 episodes 2022Don't Hug Me I'm ScaredCoffinEpisode: "Death"Trigger PointJeff Washington8 episodes2023Death in ParadiseJeremy Herbert1 episodeHijackDevlinRecurring role20243 Body ProblemSir Thomas MoreEpisode: "Red Coast"