Kevin Eldon
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 3, 1959 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Chatham, Kent, England, UK
- Credits
- 147
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
Game of Thrones
2011TV
Camello, Goldcloak
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005Movie
Man with Dog
Hot Fuzz
2007Movie
Sergeant Tony Fisher
Hugo
2011Movie
Policeman
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022TV
Narvi
Doctor Who
2005TV
Ribbons
Filmography
Madfabulous
2026Movie
John Wickens
The Witness
2026TV
DCI Mick Wickerson
Duck & Frog
2026TV
(voice)
Afterburn
2025Movie
Father Samson
VE Day 80
2025TV
Self
My Lady Jane
2024TV
Dr. Butts
3 Body Problem
2024TV
Sir Thomas More
Napoleon
2023Movie
Dr Corvisart
Juice
2023TV
Mr Majal
Hijack
2023TV
Devlin
Journey: A Voice Lost... and Found
2023Movie
Self
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
2022TV
Coffin (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022TV
Narvi
Pistol
2022TV
Bill Grundy
The Chelsea Detective
2022TV
Roy Colin
The Responder
2022TV
Neil
Trigger Point
2022TV
Jeff Washington
The Larkins
2021TV
Howard
Wolfe
2021TV
Vincent Frayn
Shadow and Bone
2021TV
The Apparat
King Rocker
2020Movie
Self
Truth Seekers
2020TV
Jack
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020Movie
Sergeant Simmons
Miss Scarlet
2020TV
Jacob Bunce
Criminal: UK
2019TV
Michael Walker
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018Movie
MI7 Night Duty Agent
Hang Ups
2018TV
Terry Sparkes
Eaten by Lions
2018Movie
Ken
Funny Cow
2018Movie
Danny
Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal
2018Movie
Tenoroc (voice)
Zanzibar
2018Movie
Vince
Call Me Alvy
2017Movie
Dr. Rubenstein
Murder on the Blackpool Express
2017Movie
Kevin
Gunpowder
2017TV
Sir John Hawksworth
Timewasters
2017TV
Professor John Logie Baird
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
2017Movie
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017TV
Self - Contestant
Decline and Fall
2017TV
Mr Levy
The Crown
2016TV
Priest Michael
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
2016Movie
Nick Secker
Damned
2016TV
Martin Bickerstaff
The Last Kingdom
2015TV
Bishop Erkenwald
Danger Mouse
2015TV
Penfold (voice)
Brilliantman!
2015Movie
Brilliantman
Cradle to Grave
2015TV
Vicar
Friday Download: The Movie
2015Movie
Mr. Prim
Set Fire to the Stars
2014Movie
Stanley
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014TV
Self
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
2014Movie
Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
Inside No. 9
2014TV
Vince
The IT Crowd Manual
2014Movie
Self
Death Comes to Pemberley
2013TV
Dr. McFee
Crackanory
2013TV
Self
Psychobitches
2013TV
Witch of Endor
It's Kevin
2013TV
Kevin / Various
Utopia
2013TV
Tony Bradley
Them From That Thing
2012TV
Various
The Wedding Video
2012Movie
Andrew
Playhouse Presents
2012TV
Martin
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012TV
Servegood
Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens
2012Movie
Self
Hugo
2011Movie
Policeman
Arthur Christmas
2011Movie
Elf (voice)
Matt Hatter Chronicles
2011TV
Tenoroc
Connected
2011Movie
Customer
Death in Paradise
2011TV
Jeremy Herbert
Game of Thrones
2011TV
Camello, Goldcloak
Campus
2011TV
Doctor
Kevin Eldon - is Titting About
2011Movie
Self
How TV Ruined Your Life
2011TV
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
2010Movie
Himself
D.O.A
2010Movie
Carl
Mongrels
2010TV
Photographer
Four Lions
2010Movie
Sniper
Lizzie and Sarah
2010Movie
Rick
Horrible Histories
2009TV
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
2009TV
Various Characters, Fish, Referee
Faintheart
2009Movie
Alan
Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
2008Movie
Himself
Dead Set
2008TV
Joplin
Merlin
2008TV
Trickler
Attila the Hun
2008Movie
Romulus
Heroes and Villains
2007TV
World of Wrestling
2007Movie
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007Movie
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Yellow House
2007Movie
Jaques
Hot Fuzz
2007Movie
Sergeant Tony Fisher
Skins
2007TV
Manfred
M.I. High
2007TV
Space Controller
Robin Hood
2006TV
Saxondale
2006TV
Martin
Mayo
2006TV
The IT Crowd
2006TV
French Tech Support
Hyperdrive
2006TV
First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
Who I Am and What I Want
2005Movie
Pete
Funland
2005TV
Shadowman
Harry & Paul
2005TV
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005Movie
Man with Dog
Popetown
2005TV
Cardinal Two (voice)
Doctor Who
2005TV
Ribbons
Nathan Barley
2005TV
Nikolai the Barber
Twisted Tales
2005TV
Wig Shop Proprietor
Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are
2004Movie
Miles (voice)
The Last Chancers
2004TV
Karl
Bill Bailey: Part Troll
2004Movie
Member of Kraftwerk
Piccadilly Jim
2004Movie
Wizzy Wisbeach
Green Wing
2004TV
Scissors Bentley
I Am Not an Animal
2004TV
Hugh the Monkey (voice)
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004Movie
Self
Murder City
2004TV
Hustle
2004TV
Anxious
Nighty Night
2004TV
Terry Tyrrell
New Tricks
2004TV
Dr Neville Moroni
Celebrity Mastermind
2003TV
Spine Chillers
2003TV
Matt
15 Storeys High
2002TV
Nev
Look Around You
2002TV
Tony Rudd
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002Movie
Antimony
Combat Sheep
2001Movie
Cooper (voice)
High Heels and Low Lifes
2001Movie
McGill
World of Pub
2001TV
The Junkies
2001Movie
Kevin
Attention Scum
2001TV
Black Books
2000TV
Cleaner
Jam
2000TV
Various
Hippies
1999TV
Peter Mountstewart
Spaced
1999TV
Agent
Smack the Pony
1999TV
Various Characters
Big Train
1998TV
In the Red
1998TV
Porno Shop Owner
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998TV
I'm Alan Partridge
1997TV
Mike Sampson
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
Brass Eye
1997TV
Mr. Wastrey, Alan / Belgian Comedian, Prison Officer, Spike Durnaburny
Cluub Zarathustra
1996Movie
Various
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996TV
Self
Lee and Herring Live
1996Movie
Simon Quinlank
Silent Witness
1996TV
DI Dan Mason
Fist of Fun
1995TV
Blue Heaven
1992TV
Waiter 1
Packet of Three
1991TV
Kevin
Red Dwarf
1988TV
4 of 27
Fahrenheit 451
1966Movie
Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
Bill's Included
TV
Drew
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Icebreaker
Movie
(voice)
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
Movie
(voice)
Untitled Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee project
Movie
Self