
Kevin Eldon
Acting
🎂 1960-10-03
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.
Cast credits(135)

Camello
2011

Goldcloak
2011

Ribbons
2005

Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
1997

Narvi
2022

Self - Contestant
2017

2009

Jeremy Herbert
2011

DI Dan Mason
1996

Self
1996

Priest Michael
2016

Manfred
2007

Sir Thomas More
2024

Self
2014

4 of 27
1988

Vince
2014

Tenoroc
2011

Anxious
2004

Devlin
2023

French Tech Support
2006

Penfold (voice)
2015

Tony Bradley
2013

Jacob Bunce
2020

Trickler
2008

Jeff Washington
2022

Nev
2002

Dr Neville Moroni
2004

Mike Sampson
1997

The Apparat
2021

Dr. Butts
2024

Cleaner
2000

1998

Terry Tyrrell
2004

Roy Colin
2022

Sir John Hawksworth
2017

Michael Walker
2019

2009

Martin Bickerstaff
2016

Howard
2021

Coffin (voice)
2022

1995

Various Characters
1999

Agent
1999

Jack
2020

Professor John Logie Baird
2017

Neil
2022

Joplin
2008

Mr. Levy
2017

Man with Dog
2005

Bill Grundy
2022

Dr Corvisart
2023

Martin
2012

2005

2006

Nikolai the Barber
2005

Cardinal Two (voice)
2005

Hugh the Monkey (voice)
2004

1998

Dr. McFee
2013

Mr. Wastrey
1997

Alan / Belgian Comedian
1997

Prison Officer
1997

Spike Durnaburny
1997

Terry Sparkes
2018

Photographer
2010

1999

2004

2015

Martin
2006

2005

Tony Rudd
2002

Servegood
2012

Policeman
2011

Sergeant Tony Fisher
2007

2005
Waiter 1
1992

Vincent Frayn
2021

Matt
2003

2007

Various
2012

Kevin / Various
2013

Scissors Bentley
2004

MI7 Night Duty Agent
2018
2001

2001

2006

Elf (voice)
2011

Various
2000

Himself
2025

First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
2006

Sniper
2010

Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
1966

1998

Kevin
2017

Sergeant Simmons
2020

2011
DCI Mick Wickerson

Ken
2018

McGill
2001

Wizzy Wisbeach
2004

Self
2004

Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007

Alan
2009

Andrew
2012

Danny
2018

Stanley
2014

Self
2014

2017

Nick Secker
2016

Miles (voice)
2004

Pete
2005

Mr. Prim
2015

Rick
2010

Antimony
2002

Jaques
2007

Self
2020
Various
1996

Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
2014

Cooper (voice)
2001

Carl
2010

Romulus
2008

Kevin
2001
Brilliantman
2015


Member of Kraftwerk
2004

Simon Quinlank
1996

2007

Customer
2011
(voice)

Tenoroc (voice)
2018
(voice)

Himself
2011

Himself
2008

Dr. Rubenstein
2017

Himself
2010