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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

Crew (2)

Writing (5)