Kevin Eldon
Acting • Born 1960-10-03
Biography
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.
Filmography
149 credits
High Heels and Low Lifes
Movie • 2001
McGill
Hot Fuzz
Movie • 2007
Sergeant Tony Fisher
Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal
Movie • 2018
Tenoroc (voice)
The IT Crowd Manual
Movie • 2014
Self
Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are
Movie • 2004
Miles (voice)
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Movie • 2007
Adolf Hitler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brilliantman!
Movie • 2015
Brilliantman
Spaced: Skip to the End
Movie • 2004
Self
Kevin Eldon - is Titting About
Movie • 2011
Self
Napoleon
Movie • 2023
Dr Corvisart
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Movie • 2017
Set Fire to the Stars
Movie • 2014
Stanley
Lizzie and Sarah
Movie • 2010
Rick
Hugo
Movie • 2011
Policeman
World of Wrestling
Movie • 2007
Lee and Herring Live
Movie • 1996
Simon Quinlank
Four Lions
Movie • 2010
Sniper
The Junkies
Movie • 2001
Kevin
Combat Sheep
Movie • 2001
Cooper (voice)
Faintheart
Movie • 2009
Alan
Arthur Christmas
Movie • 2011
Elf (voice)
Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
Movie • 2008
Himself
Bill Bailey: Part Troll
Movie • 2004
Member of Kraftwerk
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
Movie • 2010
Himself
Funny Cow
Movie • 2018
Danny
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Movie • 2005
Man with Dog
Attila the Hun
Movie • 2008
Romulus
D.O.A
Movie • 2010
Carl
The Yellow House
Movie • 2007
Jaques
Friday Download: The Movie
Movie • 2015
Mr. Prim
The Wedding Video
Movie • 2012
Andrew
Connected
Movie • 2011
Customer
Murder on the Blackpool Express
Movie • 2017
Kevin
Cluub Zarathustra
Movie • 1996
Various
Piccadilly Jim
Movie • 2004
Wizzy Wisbeach
Eaten by Lions
Movie • 2018
Ken
Johnny English Strikes Again
Movie • 2018
MI7 Night Duty Agent
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
Movie • 2014
Derek Jacobi / Claudius / Bob Harris-Tweedious / Griff Rhys-Jones / Tim McInnerny / Various
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
Movie • 2016
Nick Secker
Six Minutes to Midnight
Movie • 2020
Sergeant Simmons
Fahrenheit 451
Movie • 1966
Robert - First Schoolboy (uncredited)
King Rocker
Movie • 2020
Self
Who I Am and What I Want
Movie • 2005
Pete
Madfabulous
Movie • 2026
John Wickens
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
Movie • 2002
Antimony
Call Me Alvy
Movie • 2017
Dr. Rubenstein
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
Movie
(voice)
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Icebreaker
Movie
(voice)
Afterburn
Movie • 2025
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Movie • 2022
Coffin
Untitled Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee project
Movie
Self
I Am Not an Animal
TV • 2004
Hugh the Monkey (voice)
Spaced
TV • 1999
Agent
Popetown
TV • 2005
Cardinal Two (voice)
Nighty Night
TV • 2004
Terry Tyrrell
Skins
TV • 2007
Manfred
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
TV • 1998
Fist of Fun
TV • 1995
Big Train
TV • 1998
I'm Alan Partridge
TV • 1997
Mike Sampson
Jam
TV • 2000
Various
Hyperdrive
TV • 2006
First Officer Eduardo Pauline York
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Terry 'Groucho' Bellini
Harry & Paul
TV • 2005
Attention Scum
TV • 2001
Robin Hood
TV • 2006
Dead Set
TV • 2008
Joplin
Shadow and Bone
TV • 2021
The Apparat
World of Pub
TV • 2001
Mayo
TV • 2006
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
TV • 2009
Various Characters
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
TV • 2012
Servegood
Spine Chillers
TV • 2003
Matt
Wolfe
TV • 2021
Vincent Frayn
Playhouse Presents
TV • 2012
Martin
Hustle
TV • 2004
Anxious
Horrible Histories
TV • 2009
Miss Scarlet
TV • 2020
Jacob Bunce
Hijack
TV • 2023
Devlin
Danger Mouse
TV • 2015
Penfold (voice)
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Dr Neville Moroni
Murder City
TV • 2004
Merlin
TV • 2008
Trickler
The IT Crowd
TV • 2006
French Tech Support
Blue Heaven
TV • 1992
Waiter 1
Utopia
TV • 2013
Tony Bradley
Green Wing
TV • 2004
Scissors Bentley
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Camello
Saxondale
TV • 2006
Martin
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
TV • 2014
Self
The Crown
TV • 2016
Priest Michael
How TV Ruined Your Life
TV • 2011
Smack the Pony
TV • 1999
Various Characters
Mongrels
TV • 2010
Photographer
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Goldcloak
The Chelsea Detective
TV • 2022
Roy Colin
Timewasters
TV • 2017
Professor John Logie Baird
It's Kevin
TV • 2013
Kevin / Various
Death Comes to Pemberley
TV • 2013
Dr. McFee
The Larkins
TV • 2021
Howard
Pistol
TV • 2022
Bill Grundy
Heroes and Villains
TV • 2007
Damned
TV • 2016
Martin Bickerstaff
Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
4 of 27
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Ribbons
Matt Hatter Chronicles
TV • 2011
Tenoroc
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
TV • 2022
Coffin (voice)
3 Body Problem
TV • 2024
Sir Thomas More
Them From That Thing
TV • 2012
Various
Richard Osman's House of Games
TV • 2017
Self - Contestant
Look Around You
TV • 2002
Tony Rudd
Criminal: UK
TV • 2019
Michael Walker
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
DI Dan Mason
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Vince
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Jeremy Herbert
My Lady Jane
TV • 2024
Dr. Butts
The Responder
TV • 2022
Neil
Black Books
TV • 2000
Cleaner
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV • 2022
Narvi
Truth Seekers
TV • 2020
Jack
Hang Ups
TV • 2018
Terry Sparkes
15 Storeys High
TV • 2002
Nev
The Witness
TV
DCI Mick Wickerson
Gunpowder
TV • 2017
Sir John Hawksworth
Brass Eye
TV • 1997
Mr. Wastrey
Brass Eye
TV • 1997
Alan / Belgian Comedian
Brass Eye
TV • 1997
Prison Officer
Brass Eye
TV • 1997
Spike Durnaburny
Nathan Barley
TV • 2005
Nikolai the Barber
VE Day 80
TV • 2025
Self
Trigger Point
TV • 2022
Jeff Washington
Packet of Three
TV • 1991
Kevin
Juice
TV • 2023
Mr Majal
Twisted Tales
TV • 2005
Wig Shop Proprietor
Crackanory
TV • 2013
Self
Cradle to Grave
TV • 2015
Vicar
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
TV • 2009
Fish
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
TV • 2009
Referee
Campus
TV • 2011
Doctor
Decline and Fall
TV • 2017
Mr Levy
Hippies
TV • 1999
Peter Mountstewart
In the Red
TV • 1998
Porno Shop Owner
M.I. High
TV • 2007
Space Controller
Duck & Frog
TV • 2026
(voice)
The Last Chancers
TV • 2004
Karl
The Last Kingdom
TV • 2015
Bishop Erkenwald
Psychobitches
TV • 2013
Witch of Endor
Funland
TV • 2005
Shadowman