Alistair McGowan
Acting • Born 1964-11-24
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alistair McGowan (born 24 November 1964) is a British impressionist, stand-up comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression (formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression), which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes - winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003. He has also worked extensively in theatre and appeared in the West End in Art, Cabaret, The Mikado and Little Shop of Horrors (for which he received an Laurence Olivier Award nomination.).) As an actor on television he played the lead role in BBC1's Mayo. He wrote the play Timing (nominated as Best New Comedy at the whatsonstage.com awards) and the book A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. He also provided voices for Spitting Image. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alistair McGowan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
62 credits
My Life in Ruins
Movie • 2009
Nico
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Movie • 2023
Alfred Hitchcock (voice)
Cor, Blimey!
Movie • 2000
Racing Commentator
Ealing Comedy
Movie • 2008
Vijay Imran Cecil Kuttuputtu Yogesh
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Movie • 2002
Des Yeti (voice)
Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs
Movie • 2023
Self
Lost and Found
Movie • 2003
The Funeral Director
Comic Aid
Movie • 2005
An Evening With Gary Lineker
Movie • 1994
John Motson
We Are Most Amused
Movie • 2008
Self
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
Movie • 1999
Des Yeti / Alan Snowman / Trash Bag (voice)
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Movie • 2004
Football Commentators (voice)
Arthur Christmas
Movie • 2011
Additional Voices (voice)
Falklands' Most Daring Raid
Movie • 2012
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Creation Stories
Movie • 2021
Jimmy Savile
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Movie • 2010
Self
Best Ever Spitting Image
Movie • 2006
Self
Spitting Image: Election Special '92
Movie • 1992
Various Roles
Words of Captain Scott
Movie • 2012
Edward Wilson
The Great Kandinsky
Movie • 1995
Newsreader (voice)
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Marcos
Skins
TV • 2007
Coach Pooter
Monkey Trousers
TV • 2005
Fist of Fun
TV • 1995
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV • 2001
Self
Spitting Image
TV • 1984
2DTV
TV • 2001
Jonathan Creek
TV • 1997
Trevor
Davina
TV • 2006
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
TV • 2006
Bleak House
TV • 2005
Mr. Kenge
The Big Impression
TV • 2000
Richard & Judy
TV • 2001
Self
Hairspray: The School Musical
TV • 2008
Crapston Villas
TV • 1995
Mayo
TV • 2006
DI Gil Mayo
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self
Dark Ages
TV • 1999
29 Minutes of Fame
TV • 2005
Self - Team Captain
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
TV • 1994
Spock
FBI Music Magazine
TV • 2000
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
TV • 1989
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
TV • 2010
The Comedy Annual
TV
Sports Mash: Taking the Mic
TV • 2010
Talking Snooker
TV • 2017
Self - Presenter
What the Dickens?
TV • 2008
Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Children's Ward
TV • 1989
Casualty Doctor
24 Hours in the Past
TV • 2015
Participant
Room 101
TV • 1994
Self
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
TV • 2012
Self - Contestant
Spark
TV • 1997
Mike
The Weakest Link
TV • 2021
Self - Participant
Leonardo
TV • 2011
Piero de' Medici
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Harry Enfield and Chums
TV • 1994
Waiter
Have I Got News for You
TV • 1990
Self - Host