Adrian Edmondson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-01-24
Place of Birth
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Adrian Edmondson
Biography
Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).
Also Known For
Guest House Paradiso
Dec 03, 1999
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Mar 05, 1988
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
Oct 27, 1997
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
Nov 24, 2003
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
Oct 19, 2001
Bottom Mindless Violence
Nov 22, 2004
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
Nov 06, 1995
Miss Austen Regrets
Feb 03, 2008
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
Sep 27, 1993
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
Jan 01, 2008
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Jan 01, 1989
The Supergrass
Nov 08, 1985
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
Jan 01, 1986
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Dec 10, 1988
Blood
Oct 09, 2012
The Best of French & Saunders
Aug 05, 2002
The Yob
Mar 12, 1988
The Trick
Oct 18, 2021
Dead on Time
Jan 01, 1983
Les Dogs
Aug 03, 1990
Demonella
May 20, 1993
Summer School
Jan 31, 1983
Five Go Mad in Dorset
Nov 02, 1982
Four Men in a Car
Apr 12, 1998
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Feb 04, 1984
War
Jan 03, 1983
Four Men in a Plane
Jan 04, 2000
The Beat Generation
Jan 17, 1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Nov 02, 1983
Dirty Movie
Jan 07, 1984
Susie
Jan 14, 1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
Jan 28, 1984
Slags
Feb 11, 1984
Private Enterprise
Jan 02, 1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Jan 01, 1986
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Feb 08, 1990
Oxford
Feb 22, 1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Feb 08, 1990
Red Nose of Courage
Apr 09, 1992
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Apr 29, 1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
May 13, 1993
Five Go to Rehab
Nov 07, 2012
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Dec 27, 2023
The Pope Must Die
Jun 21, 1991
News Hounds
Sep 02, 1990
Just Like That!
Jan 01, 1989
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Jul 04, 2005
Honest Decent & True
Feb 09, 1986
Eat the Rich
Oct 23, 1987
Bottom: Exposed
Apr 18, 2024
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Dec 14, 2007
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
Mar 13, 1982
The Comic Strip
Jan 01, 1981
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
Oct 14, 2008
Rocky Horror Show Live
Nov 17, 2015
The Rizen
May 06, 2017
The Strike
Feb 20, 1988
Interlude In Prague
May 25, 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dec 13, 2017
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
Nov 15, 1999
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Feb 14, 2018
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
Jan 15, 1995
Bad News
Jan 24, 1983
More Bad News
Feb 27, 1988
The Rizen: Possession
May 22, 2019
GLC: The Carnage Continues
Feb 05, 1990
Completely Bad News
Nov 29, 2019
Bottom Fluff
Nov 16, 1996
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
Nov 15, 1999
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
May 26, 2018
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Apr 25, 1986
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
Dec 25, 1998
King Rocker
Oct 31, 2020
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Oct 16, 2008
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Mar 22, 2021
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Jan 21, 1984
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
Oct 29, 2007
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Jan 07, 1987
The Man
Apr 05, 1999
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
May 22, 2006
This Morning
Oct 03, 1988
Captain Star
Jul 08, 1997
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
Mar 07, 2003
The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
Jonathan Creek
May 09, 1997
Death in Paradise
Oct 25, 2011
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Apr 01, 1976
Bottom
Sep 17, 1991
Absolutely Fabulous
Nov 12, 1992
The Young Ones
Nov 09, 1982
If You See God, Tell Him
Nov 11, 1993
Teenage Kicks
Mar 28, 2008
Happy Families
Oct 17, 1985
Anna Lee
Feb 27, 1994
School's Out
Apr 19, 2006
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Sep 03, 2007
Happy Families
Aug 17, 1989
Pebble Mill
Oct 14, 1991
Celebrity Mastermind
Dec 26, 2003
Doctors and Nurses
Jan 13, 2004
Natural World
Oct 30, 1983
The Pact
May 17, 2021
Ade in Britain
Nov 07, 2011
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Jun 16, 2014
Britain's Got More Talent
Jun 09, 2007
Monte Carlo or Bust
Oct 28, 2010
Midsomer Murders
Mar 23, 1997
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Feb 20, 2012
Look at the State We're In!
May 20, 1995
Spine Chillers
Jun 23, 2003
Prey
Apr 28, 2014
Ade at Sea
War and Peace
Jan 03, 2016
A Spy Among Friends
Dec 08, 2022
Blackadder
Jun 15, 1983
Ronja the Robber's Daughter
Oct 11, 2014
Twisted Tales
Jan 16, 2005
One of Us
Aug 23, 2016
Press Gang
Jan 16, 1989
An Audience with...
Jan 08, 1978
Hardwicke House
Feb 24, 1987
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Rita Rudner
Sep 18, 1990
Bancroft
Dec 11, 2017
Alien: Earth
Aug 12, 2025
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Oct 14, 1980
Urban Myths
Jan 19, 2017
Gadget Man
Nov 19, 2012
Surviving Disaster
Jan 10, 2006
Going Live!
Sep 26, 1987
Great British Menu
Apr 10, 2006
Richard Osman's House of Games
Sep 04, 2017
Would I Lie to You?
Jun 16, 2007
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Jan 10, 2012
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Feb 21, 2009
Snakes and Ladders
Oct 17, 1989
Save Me
Feb 28, 2018
Cheat
Mar 11, 2019
3 Body Problem
Mar 21, 2024
Genius
Apr 25, 2017
Upstart Crow
May 09, 2016
Ready Steady Cook
Oct 24, 1994
Saturday Live
Jan 25, 1986
The Comic Strip Presents...
Nov 02, 1982
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The Dangerous Brothers
Jan 01, 1986
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Jan 07, 1987
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
Aug 14, 2024
Catchphrase
Apr 07, 2013
French & Saunders
Mar 09, 1987
Between the Covers
Oct 09, 2020
Out of Her Mind
Oct 20, 2020
The Comic Strip Presents...
Nov 02, 1982
Celebrity Catchphrase
Jun 17, 2018
