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Kevin Eldon (born 3 October 1960, Chatham, Kent, England) is an English actor and comedian. He has appeared prominently in several of the most critically-acclaimed British comedy television shows of the 1990s, notably Fist of Fun, I'm Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam.
Eldon is a Soka Gakkai Buddhist.[1]
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Career
Early career and Lee & Herring
Eldon started on the stand-up circuit in the early '90s performing an act in character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has also done stand-up as himself on occasions. On the circuit, Eldon formed a friendship with the stand-up comedian Stewart Lee, which would later lead to an invitation to work with Lee 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 be an actor, rather than a comedian.
Eldon's work sat well with that of Lee & Herring, and he continued to work with them on all their projects, including The Lee & Herring Radio Show, Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy, providing a multitude of characters, most notably: the jelly-obsessed False Rod Hull; and Simon Quinlank, the self-proclaimed "king of hobbies", who would always be accompanied by a flask of "weak lemon drink". He also played a version of himself, as The Actor Kevin Eldon. In addition to his Lee & Herring collaborations, he has worked closely with Simon Munnery and Julia Davis.
Stage and screen
Eldon has featured in several other comedy projects including Brass Eye, Smack the Pony, Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, The Sunday Show, Comedy Nation, Cows (ill-fated Eddie Izzard-penned comedy pilot that followed the life of a family of cows), Jam, I Am Not An Animal, I'm Alan Partridge, The Sofa of Time, Attention Scum!, Nighty Night, Green Wing, Jammin', Nathan Barley, Hyperdrive and Saxondale. He has also been seen on the comedy panel show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks as well as playing music teacher from Bristol, Tony Rudd in the Music 2000 episode of Look Around You. His guest appearance on Black Books involved him playing the role of a sinister cleaner. He also had a brief role in the 2005 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, playing "Man with Dog" alongside Mark Heap.
Eldon has also appeared onstage performing as a spoof member of the German band Kraftwerk for the recorded version of Bill Bailey's Part Troll comedy tour when it was performed in Hammersmith, along with two others (John Moloney and Martin Trenaman). He played the same role in Bailey's 2007 tour Tinselworm.
In late 2006 Eldon helped organise and produce a short tour and a West End run of Pinter's People at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London (2007). The show was a collection of sketches written by Harold Pinter. Pinter titled the show himself. The show also starred Geraldine McNulty, Bill Bailey and Sally Philips.
Eldon has recently starred as First Officer York in two series of the BBC sitcom Hyperdrive. He played the role of Pete in the David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd animation Who I Am And What I Want, and appeared in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's comedy film Hot Fuzz as Sergeant Tony Fisher.
Eldon played Mick McManus in Tim Plester's short film World of Wrestling in 2007.
In October 2008 he played housemate Joplin in Charlie Brooker's five-part horror thriller for E4 Dead Set.
Eldon also co-authored the theme tune, and is script editor for, the children's series Genie In The House.[2]
Radio
Eldon made a guest appearance in a special webcast version of Doctor Who in a story called Death Comes to Time, in which he played Antimony, a companion of the Doctor.
Eldon has also written and starred in a series of monologues, collectively entitled Speakers, broadcast on the London art radio station, Resonance FM[3]. The podcasts are available on the station's website. Eldon also features on a CERN podcast and YouTube video with Simon Munnery.
In 2008, Eldon presented "Poets' Tree", a four-part "poetry type programme" for Radio 4, in the character of Paul Hamilton. The series was co-written and edited by Stewart Lee.
References
- ^ "Kevin Eldon Interview | Features". NOTBBC. http://www.notbbc.co.uk/features/15/kevin_eldon_interview.html. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253126/filmoyear
- ^ "Index of /audio/speakers". Resonancearchive1.org.uk. http://www.resonancearchive1.org.uk/audio/speakers. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
External links
- Kevin Eldon's agent
- Kevin Eldon at the Internet Movie Database
- BBC Hyperdrive website
- CERN Podcast - Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery visit CERN
- Poet's Tree - Downloads of Kevin's 2008 Radio Series
- Speakers - Downloads of Kevin's Resonance FM Monologues
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