Kevin Eldon
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 · 140
Game of Thrones
2011 · Camello
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Terry 'Groucho' Bellin...
Doctor Who
2005 · Ribbons
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022 · Narvi
Death in Paradise
2011 · Jeremy Herbert
The Last Kingdom
2015 · Bishop Erkenwald
Silent Witness
1996 · DI Dan Mason
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
The Crown
2016 · Priest Michael
Skins
2007 · Manfred
Merlin
2008 · Trickler
3 Body Problem
2024 · Sir Thomas More
New Tricks
2004 · Dr Neville Moroni
Hustle
2004 · Anxious
Hijack
2023 · Devlin
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 · Self
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Man with Dog
Red Dwarf
1988 · 4 of 27
Horrible Histories
2009
Inside No. 9
2014 · Vince
The IT Crowd
2006 · French Tech Support
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Roy Colin
Miss Scarlet
2020 · Jacob Bunce
Napoleon
2023 · Dr Corvisart
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Martin
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Sergeant Tony Fisher
Shadow and Bone
2021 · The Apparat
Black Books
2000 · Cleaner
Utopia
2013 · Tony Bradley
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017 · Self - Contestant
Robin Hood
2006
M.I. High
2007 · Space Controller
Danger Mouse
2015 · Penfold (voice)
The Witness
2026 · DCI Mick Wickerson
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
2009 · Various Characters
My Lady Jane
2024 · Dr. Butts
Criminal: UK
2019 · Michael Walker
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018 · MI7 Night Duty Agent
Trigger Point
2022 · Jeff Washington
The Responder
2022 · Neil
Mongrels
2010 · Photographer
Hugo
2011 · Policeman
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · Self
Afterburn
2025 · Father Samson
Spaced
1999 · Agent
I'm Alan Partridge
1997 · Mike Sampson
Pistol
2022 · Bill Grundy
Brass Eye
1997 · Mr. Wastrey
Truth Seekers
2020 · Jack
Nighty Night
2004 · Terry Tyrrell
Saxondale
2006 · Martin
Smack the Pony
1999 · Various Characters
Arthur Christmas
2011 · Elf (voice)
Gunpowder
2017 · Sir John Hawksworth
Damned
2016 · Martin Bickerstaff
Dead Set
2008 · Joplin
Green Wing
2004 · Scissors Bentley
I Am Not an Animal
2004 · Hugh the Monkey (voice...
Psychobitches
2013 · Witch of Endor
Crackanory
2013 · Self
Funland
2005 · Shadowman
The Larkins
2021 · Howard
Look Around You
2002 · Tony Rudd
Matt Hatter Chronicles
2011 · Tenoroc
Wolfe
2021 · Vincent Frayn
Nathan Barley
2005 · Nikolai the Barber
Hang Ups
2018 · Terry Sparkes
Jam
2000 · Various
Harry & Paul
2005
Duck & Frog
2026 · (voice)
Timewasters
2017 · Professor John Logie B...
Spine Chillers
2003 · Matt
Hyperdrive
2006 · First Officer Eduardo...
Death Comes to Pemberley
2013 · Dr. McFee
Twisted Tales
2005 · Wig Shop Proprietor
Juice
2023 · Mr Majal
Hippies
1999 · Peter Mountstewart
Murder City
2004
Big Train
1998
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
2022 · Coffin (voice)
Popetown
2005 · Cardinal Two (voice)
Four Lions
2010 · Sniper
Fahrenheit 451
1966 · Robert - First Schoolb...
Cradle to Grave
2015 · Vicar
Campus
2011 · Doctor
Heroes and Villains
2007
15 Storeys High
2002 · Nev
Mayo
2006
It's Kevin
2013 · Kevin / Various
In the Red
1998 · Porno Shop Owner
Decline and Fall
2017 · Mr Levy
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020 · Sergeant Simmons
Fist of Fun
1995
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
1998
Spaced: Skip to the End
2004 · Self
Madfabulous
2026 · John Wickens
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012 · Servegood
World of Pub
2001
Faintheart
2009 · Alan
How TV Ruined Your Life
2011
High Heels and Low Lifes
2001 · McGill
Murder on the Blackpool Express
2017 · Kevin
Them From That Thing
2012 · Various
VE Day 80
2025 · Self
Attention Scum
2001
The Last Chancers
2004 · Karl
Piccadilly Jim
2004 · Wizzy Wisbeach
Funny Cow
2018 · Danny
Set Fire to the Stars
2014 · Stanley
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007 · Adolf Hitler (archive...
Zanzibar
2018 · Vince
The Wedding Video
2012 · Andrew
Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens
2012 · Self
The IT Crowd Manual
2014 · Self
The Junkies
2001 · Kevin
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002 · Antimony
Eaten by Lions
2018 · Ken
The Comedian's Guide to Survival
2016 · Nick Secker
Kevin Eldon - is Titting About
2011 · Self
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind
2010 · Himself
Who I Am and What I Want
2005 · Pete
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Icebreaker
— · (voice)
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
— · (voice)
Call Me Alvy
2017 · Dr. Rubenstein
Lee and Herring Live
1996 · Simon Quinlank
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
2017
D.O.A
2010 · Carl
King Rocker
2020 · Self
Attila the Hun
2008 · Romulus
Connected
2011 · Customer
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
2014 · Derek Jacobi / Claudiu...
Bill Bailey: Part Troll
2004 · Member of Kraftwerk
Friday Download: The Movie
2015 · Mr. Prim
World of Wrestling
2007
Lizzie and Sarah
2010 · Rick
Combat Sheep
2001 · Cooper (voice)
The Yellow House
2007 · Jaques
Bill Bailey: Tinselworm
2008 · Himself
Matt Hatter Chronicles: Rise of Primal
2018 · Tenoroc (voice)
Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are
2004 · Miles (voice)