Biography
Actor, comedian and impressionist who was better known for his improvisation comedy.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Belfast
2021
as Joseph Tomelty as Marley
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his b...
Intrigo: Dear Agnes
2019
as Pumpermann
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other fo...
Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream
2019
as Self
A documentary detailing the journey it took two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream, creating the world's first fully painted feat...
Balls
2018
as Brownlow
Balls takes as its starting point Heathcliff, the foundling character central to Wuthering Heights, and explores links between the Foundling Hospital ...
The Town That Floored the World
2018
as Presenter
How did the Scottish east coast port town of Kirkcaldy become the world centre for linoleum? The Town That Floored the World traces the history of tha...
Finding Your Feet
2017
as Mike Abbott
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.
Loving Vincent
2017
as Pere Tanguy
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final...
Denial
2016
as Prof. Richard Evans
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...
Whisky Galore
2016
as Doctor McLaren
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisk...
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
as Dr. Hermann
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Red Top
2016
as The Accountant
Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and...
The Rack Pack
2016
as Ted Lowe
The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sp...
We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015
as Arthur Lowe
Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.
Legend
2015
as Lord Boothby
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using ...
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
2015
as Narrator
Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Sco...
Mr. Holmes
2015
as Mycroft Holmes
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he re...
Hiroshima: The Aftermath
2015
as Narrator
Brand new documentary marking the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings which ended WWII and began the nuclear age. Features intervi...
The Silent Storm
2014
as Mr. Smith
An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with...
Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
2014
as Thorne
Pudsey the cheeky London stray dog is quite happy being a lone ranger, looking out for number one, until he meets siblings Molly, George and Tommy. Af...
Filth
2013
as Toal
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promoti...
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of t...
The Iron Lady
2011
as Edward Heath
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
as Norman Tebbit
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
as Tebbit
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
The Real American: Joe McCarthy
2011
as Joe McCarthy
An unflinching look at the rise and fall of one of the most infamous political figures in US history.
Spies and Lies
2010
as Folkes
A true story. 1942. New Zealand is at war. Times are desperate. The Japanese invasion seems imminent. At this perilous moment, confidence trickster Sy...
Made in Dagenham
2010
as Harold Wilson
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
The Making of Plus One
2010
as Derek - the line producer
Nativity!
2009
as Mr. Lore
Paul, charged with directing his school's Nativity play, falsely boasts that his ex-girlfriend plans to turn the production into a film.
The Last Station
2009
as Dushan
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material ...
Breaking the Mould
2009
as Edward Mellanby
A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of ...
Margaret
2009
as Ian Gow
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990...
Inconceivable
2008
as Finbar 'Finn' Darrow
A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Fr...
Reichenbach Falls
2007
as Professor Bell
A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-bo...
The Good Shepherd
2006
as Valentin Mironov #1/Yuri Modin
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...
Low Winter Sun
2006
as Prof Barry Lennox
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Scoop
2006
as Strombel's Co-Worker (uncredited)
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
The English Harem
2005
as Ridley
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian ...
Rag Tale
2005
as Felix Miles Sty
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Hawking
2004
as Dennis Sciama
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend...
The Merchant of Venice
2004
as Salerio
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heir...
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2004
Additional Dialogue
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I...
Five Children and It
2004
as Peasemarsh
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants t...
Lighthouse Hill
2004
as Mr. Reynard
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than ...
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
as Rival Newspaper Editor
Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 ...
Stella Street
2004
Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corn...
Stella Street
2004
Writer
Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corn...
The Key
2003
The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebel...
Gangs of New York
2002
as Harry Watkins / Lincoln
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's...
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as George Henry Lewes
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexu...
One of the Hollywood Ten
2002
as Paul Jarrico
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002
as General Tannis
An animated adventure following the Seventh Doctor as he attempts to stop General Tannis' plans for conquest of the universe.
High Heels and Low Lifes
2001
as Director
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers f...
David Macaulay: Mill Times
2001
as Shadrack Moore (voice)
Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped tur...
Around The World In 80 Days
2000
as Jean Passepartout (voice)
Travel back in time to a scene set in London in 1872, where a young Phileas Fogg is about to wager a fortune in the hope of completing an impossible c...
A Profile of 'Brief Encounter'
2000
as Self
Documentary about the making of David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter".
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
as Philostrate
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic enta...
The Man
1999
as Jerry Barnes
Lenny Henry plays the boss of an ailing (so he is broke) travel agency and he alo sings in an R&B pub band.
Faeries
1999
as Chudley (voice)
While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to a farm in the countryside, much to George's deligh...
The Scarlet Tunic
1998
as Humphrey Gould
Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor ...
Cousin Bette
1998
as Musical Director
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her ...
Faith
1998
as Brian
A short film on the subject of an Arsenal fan's protest and based on an original short story by Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby, starring John Sessions...
Queen's Park Story
1998
Gus's girlfriend has thrown him out after his infidelity. One day he sees a girl painting in the park. He walks up to her.
My Night with Reg
1997
as Daniel
Six gay friends discuss love, friendship and infidelity over the course of three significant evenings
The Treasure Seekers
1996
as Redman
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Schoolmaster
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someda...
In the Bleak Midwinter
1995
as Terry Du Bois
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, some...
Princess Caraboo
1994
as Prince Regent
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims ...
Citizen Locke
1994
as John Locke
Story of John Locke...
David Macaulay: Roman City
1994
as Laurens / Acco Bouvaix (voice)
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in...
Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
1993
as James Boswell
In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his...
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
as Scotty / Additional voices (voice)
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve...
Sellers' Best
1992
as Self
One of the all-time greatest comedians, Peter Sellers’ mimicry, timing, instinct and ability to decimate an audience with laughter made him absolutely...
The Pope Must Die
1991
as Dino
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and ...
Sweet Revenge
1990
as John
An attorney plays match-maker for her ex-husband, by hiring an actress to seduce him - all in an attempt to try and rid herself of alimony payments.
Henry V
1989
as Macmorris
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
as Antonio Gramsci
A drama documentary on the life and work of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Produced for Channel 4 in 1987, it was directed by the Scottish filmmak...
Sky Bandits
1986
as Flight
A pair of old west cowboys become fighter pilots in World War I.
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
as Mr. Sweetzer
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the count...
Castaway
1986
as Man in Pub
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving ta...
The Bounty
1984
as John Smith
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to ...