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