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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1960-10-03
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 1.2
- info Birth Place Chatham, Kent, England, UK
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6
High Heels and Low Lifes
2001-07-16
7.6
Hot Fuzz
2007-02-14
0
Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal
2018-04-01
8.4
The IT Crowd Manual
2014-01-04
9
Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are
2004-12-24
5
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007-05-10
0
Brilliantman!
2015-09-24
6.1
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004-04-12
0
Kevin Eldon - is Titting About
2011-02-18
6.4
Napoleon
2023-11-22
8
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
2017-09-11
5.7
Set Fire to the Stars
2014-11-07
7.4
Lizzie and Sarah
2010-03-20
7.2
Hugo
2011-11-22
0
World of Wrestling
2007-09-29
8.2
Lee and Herring Live
1996-10-04
6.9
Four Lions
2010-05-07
0
The Junkies
2001-05-31
0
Combat Sheep
2001-12-30
6.3
Faintheart
2009-01-27
6.8
Arthur Christmas
2011-11-10
7.4
Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
2008-11-10
7.3
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
2010-11-22
7.9
Bill Bailey: Part Troll
2004-11-22
6.3
Funny Cow
2018-04-20
7.1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005-07-13
6.5
Attila the Hun
2008-03-16
0
D.O.A
2010-10-24
8
The Yellow House
2007-03-22
6.2
Friday Download: The Movie
2015-05-22
5.4
The Wedding Video
2012-08-17
0
Connected
2011-10-26
5.8
Murder on the Blackpool Express
2017-11-11
7
Cluub Zarathustra
1996-01-01
6.6
Piccadilly Jim
2004-11-01
5.8
Eaten by Lions
2018-06-21
6.3
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018-09-13
7
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
2014-05-25
4.4
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
2016-10-28
6.2
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020-10-15
7.2
Fahrenheit 451
1966-09-07
7.4
King Rocker
2020-10-31
7.3
Who I Am and What I Want
2005-10-28
0
Madfabulous
0
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002-05-03
0
Call Me Alvy
2017-11-19
8.7
I Am Not an Animal
2004-05-10
7.9
Spaced
1999-09-24
4.5
Popetown
2005-06-08
7.7
Nighty Night
2004-01-06
8.1
Skins
2007-01-25
6.4
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998-02-15
7.7
Fist of Fun
1995-04-11
7.1
Big Train
1998-11-09
7.3
I'm Alan Partridge
1997-11-03
7.9
Jam
2000-03-23
6.5
Hyperdrive
2006-01-11
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23
6.6
Harry & Paul
2005-09-20
5.5
Attention Scum
2001-02-25
6.7
Robin Hood
2006-10-07
7.2
Dead Set
2008-10-27
7.9
Shadow and Bone
2021-04-23
6.4
World of Pub
2001-06-24
6.4
Funland
2005-10-23
4.2
Mayo
2006-03-12
8
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
2009-03-16
7.5
Twisted Tales
2005-01-16
6.9
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012-02-20
0
Spine Chillers
2003-06-23
6.1
Wolfe
2021-09-10
6
Playhouse Presents
2012-04-12
7.6
Hustle
2004-02-24
8
Horrible Histories
2009-04-16
7.4
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
2020-03-31
7.7
Hijack
2023-06-28
6.2
Danger Mouse
2015-09-28
7.4
New Tricks
2004-01-01
7.2
Murder City
2004-03-17
7.9
Merlin
2008-09-20
8.2
The IT Crowd
2006-02-03
6.2
In the Red
1998-05-26
3
Blue Heaven
1992-06-10
8
Utopia
2013-01-15
8
Green Wing
2004-09-03
8.5
Game of Thrones
2011-04-17
7.7
Cradle to Grave
2015-09-03
7.2
Hippies
1999-11-12
7.4
Saxondale
2006-06-19
7.1
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014-06-16
8.3
The Crown
2016-11-04
7.5
How TV Ruined Your Life
2011-01-25
7.2
Smack the Pony
1999-03-19
7.7
Mongrels
2010-06-22
8.5
Game of Thrones
2011-04-17
6.2
The Chelsea Detective
2022-02-07
6.2
Timewasters
2017-10-09
7.3
It's Kevin
2013-03-17
6.8
Death Comes to Pemberley
2013-12-26
6.4
The Larkins
2021-10-10
7.6
Pistol
2022-05-31
7
Heroes and Villains
2007-11-11
6.4
Damned
2016-09-27
8.1
Red Dwarf
1988-02-15
7
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996-11-12
7.6
Doctor Who
2005-03-26
7.9
Matt Hatter Chronicles
2011-10-31
8.5
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
2022-09-30
7.5
3 Body Problem
2024-03-21
0
Them From That Thing
2012-08-21
6
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017-09-04
8.1
Look Around You
2002-10-10
7.2
Criminal: UK
2019-09-20
7.6
Silent Witness
1996-02-21
8
Inside No. 9
2014-02-05
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011-10-25
7.6
My Lady Jane
2024-06-27
7
The Responder
2022-01-24
8.1
Black Books
2000-09-29
7.3
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022-09-01
7.1
Truth Seekers
2020-10-30
6.5
Hang Ups
2018-08-08
8.1
15 Storeys High
2002-11-07
5.8
Decline and Fall
2017-03-31
0
The Witness
6.8
Gunpowder
2017-10-21
7.5
Brass Eye
1997-01-29
7.5
Brass Eye
1997-01-29
7.5
Brass Eye
1997-01-29
7.5
Brass Eye
1997-01-29
7.2
Nathan Barley
2005-02-11
7
VE Day 80
2025-05-05
7.1
Trigger Point
2022-01-23
