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