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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 24, 1957
Place of Birth
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Ade Edmonson
- Ade Edmondson
- Ade Edmonton
- Bad News
- Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson
- Adrian Charles Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson
1.3 Popularity
Biography
Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).
Known For
7.4
Atom Eins
Alien: Earth
2025
0.0
Self
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
2025
5.3
Phil
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
2024
5.5
Himself
Bottom: Exposed
2024
7.5
Denys Porlock
3 Body Problem
2024
7.0
Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
0.0
Toad
Toad & Friends
2023
6.5
Sir Roger Hollis
A Spy Among Friends
2022
6.7
Granny (voice)
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
4.7
Edward Acton
The Trick
2021
Credits
Alien: Earth
as Atom Eins
2025
7.4
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
as Self
2025
0.0
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
as Phil
2024
5.3
Bottom: Exposed
as Himself
2024
5.5
3 Body Problem
as Denys Porlock
2024
7.5
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self
2023
7.0
Toad & Friends
as Toad
2023
0.0
A Spy Among Friends
as Sir Roger Hollis
2022
6.5
The Best Birthday Ever
as Granny (voice)
2022
6.7
The Trick
as Edward Acton
2021
4.7
The Pact
as Richard
2021
7.1
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
as Self
2021
7.0
King Rocker
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.4
Out of Her Mind
as Lewis
2020
5.2
Between the Covers
as Self
2020
5.5
Completely Bad News
as Vim Fuego
2019
0.0
The Rizen: Possession
as The Interviewer
2019
5.0
Cheat
as William Vaughan
2019
6.4
Celebrity Catchphrase
as Self - Contestant
2018
0.0
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
7.0
Save Me
as Gideon Charles
2018
6.5
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
2018
7.5
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Captain Peavey
2017
6.8
Bancroft
as Superintendent Cliff Walker
2017
6.9
Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant
2017
6.0
Interlude In Prague
as Herr Luptak
2017
5.8
The Rizen
as Interviewer
2017
4.9
Genius
as David Hilbert
2017
7.5
Urban Myths
as Leslie Conn
2017
7.4
One of Us
as Peter Elliot
2016
6.6
Upstart Crow
as Dogberry
2016
7.1
War and Peace
as Ilya Rostov
2016
7.6
Rocky Horror Show Live
as Narrator
2015
7.0
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
as Noodle Pete (voice, English version)
2014
6.7
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self
2014
7.1
Prey
as DCI Warner
2014
6.7
Catchphrase
2013
4.0
Gadget Man
2012
7.0
Five Go to Rehab
as Dick
2012
0.0
Blood
as Tom Tiernan
2012
5.9
Britain Beware!
as Self (Presenter)
2012
0.0
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
as Headmaster Wackville
2012
6.9
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
as Self - Contestant
2012
0.0
Ade in Britain
2011
9.0
Death in Paradise
as Charles Crabtree
2011
7.5
🎬
Monte Carlo or Bust
2010
0.0
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
as Self - Contestant
2009
6.7
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Baron von Richthoven/Self
2008
4.5
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
as Brad
2008
6.2
Teenage Kicks
2008
4.2
Miss Austen Regrets
as Henry Austen
2008
6.1
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
as Sir Adrian Dangerous
2008
0.0
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
as Self (Narrator)
2007
7.0
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
as Self (Archived Footage)
2007
0.0
🎬
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
3.7
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2007
7.8
Britain's Got More Talent
as Self
2007
2.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
2006
0.0
🎬
School's Out
as Self
2006
0.0
Great British Menu
as Self - Guest Judge
2006
6.5
Surviving Disaster
2006
6.7
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
as Self
2005
6.0
Twisted Tales
as Ed Barnes
2005
7.0
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Vyvyan / Eddie Catflap / Sir Adrian Dangerous / Dreamy Time Escort / Eddie Hitler / Eddie Ndingombaba (archive footage)
2004
7.5
🎬
Doctors and Nurses
as Dr. Roy Glover
2004
4.0
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
6.0
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
as Edward Hitler
2003
7.5
Spine Chillers
2003
0.0
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003
0.0
The Best of French & Saunders
as Various
2002
0.0
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
as Eddie
2001
7.4
Four Men in a Plane
as Ian Crisp
2000
0.0
Guest House Paradiso
as Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba
1999
6.1
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
1999
7.2
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
as Self
1999
5.0
🎬
The Man
as Ash
1999
0.0
Holby City
as Percy "Abra" Durant
1999
5.8
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
as Dame Dolly
1998
7.0
Four Men in a Car
as Ian
1998
0.0
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
as Eddie Hitler
1997
7.2
Captain Star
1997
5.8
Jonathan Creek
as Brendan Baxter
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Hugo Welles
1997
7.5
Bottom Fluff
1996
0.0
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
as Eddie
1995
7.6
🎬
Look at the State We're In!
as Dewhurst
1995
0.0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
as Zyke
1995
5.6
Ready, Steady, Cook
as Self - Guest
1994
0.0
If You See God, Tell Him
as Gordon Spry
1993
6.7
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
as Eddie
1993
7.9
Demonella
as Sid Vicious
1993
0.0
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
as Gregory Dawson
1993
0.0
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as 'K' / Air Traffic Controller
1993
0.0
Absolutely Fabulous
as Hamish
1992
7.5
Red Nose of Courage
as John Major/Coco the Clown
1992
0.0
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Bottom
as Edward Elizabeth Hitler
1991
7.9
The Pope Must Die
as Father Rookie
1991
4.9
Rita Rudner
1990
0.0
News Hounds
as Phil Burke
1990
0.0
🎬
Les Dogs
as Best Man
1990
0.0
Oxford
as 2nd MI5 Man / Fan
1990
0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
as Billy
1990
0.0
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
as Billy
1990
0.0
🎬
GLC: The Carnage Continues
as Billy/Prince Charles/Giles Cricket Bat Portland
1990
0.0
Snakes and Ladders
as Giles Tewkesbury
1989
5.5
Press Gang
as Simon Knowles
1989
7.5
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
as Self
1989
7.5
Just Like That!
as Self
1989
0.0
An Audience With Victoria Wood
as Self
1988
5.2
This Morning
as Self
1988
5.2
The Yob
as Michael
1988
0.0
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
as Dreamy Time Escort
1988
8.6
More Bad News
as Vim Fuego
1988
9.8
The Strike
as Adrian/Slim/Policeman
1988
7.0
Eat the Rich
as Charles
1987
6.2
Going Live!
as Self
1987
6.0
French & Saunders
as John
1987
7.5
Hardwicke House
as Tiny
1987
4.0
Filthy Rich & Catflap
as Edward Catflap
1987
6.6
Filthy Rich & Catflap
as Edward Catflap
1987
0.0
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
as Self
1986
6.0
🎬
Honest Decent & True
as Alun Pickersgill
1986
0.0
Saturday Live
1986
6.7
Private Enterprise
as Brian
1986
0.0
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
as John
1986
0.0
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
as Sir Adrian Dangerous
1986
6.6
The Dangerous Brothers
as Sir Adrian Dangerous
1986
0.0
The Supergrass
as Dennis Carter
1985
6.0
Happy Families
as Guy Fuddle
1985
6.7
Slags
as Ace
1984
2.0
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
as Eddie Moonson
1984
0.0
Gino: Full Story and Pics
as Gordon/Bill
1984
0.0
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
as Billy
1984
7.0
Susie
as Martin
1984
0.0
Dirty Movie
as Bean
1984
0.0
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
as Dick
1983
0.0
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.2
Blackadder
as Baron von Richtoven
1983
8.0
Summer School
as Peter
1983
0.0
Bad News
as Vim Fuego/Alan Metcalfe
1983
8.7
The Beat Generation
as Desmond
1983
0.0
War
as Various Roles
1983
10.0
Dead on Time
as Fool
1983
6.5
The Young Ones
as Vyvyan
1982
7.9
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Dick
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Mike/Hatchett/Julio/Bolsen/Man in Cage/Jenkins/Zarkoff
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Desmond
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Vim Fuego
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Peter
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Bean
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Martin
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Billy
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Gordon/Bill
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Eddie Monsoon
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Ace
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as John
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Brian
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Adrian/Slim/Policeman
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Dreamy Time Escort
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Michael
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Billy/Prince/Giles Cricket Bat Portland
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as 2nd MI5 Man/Fan
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Bestman
1982
7.4
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
7.4
Five Go Mad in Dorset
as Dick
1982
0.0
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
as Keith Marshall
1982
6.5
The Comic Strip
1981
0.0
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980
6.0
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
5.0
Ade at Sea
as Self
N/A
0.0
Bottom: Christmas Special
N/A
0.0