Personal Info
Birth date
1964-11-24 (60 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Evesham, Worcestershire, England
Also known as
-Alistair McGowan
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
The Graham Norton Show
7.194
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.Children's Ward
3.5
Overview:
Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set – as the title suggests – in Ward B1, the children's ward of the fictitious South Park Hospital, and told the stories of the young patients and the staff present there. Aimed at older children and teenagers, Children's Ward was a long-lived series for a children's drama, starting life in 1988 as a contribution to the Dramarama anthology strand, "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night", then first broadcast as a series 1989 and running from then until 2000. The series was conceived by Granada staff writers Paul Abbott and Kay Mellor, both of whom went on to enjoy successful careers as award-winning writers of adult television drama. At the time, they were both working on the soap opera Coronation Street, and had recently collaborated on a script for Dramarama. Abbott, who had been through a troubled childhood himself, had initially wanted to set the series in a children's care home rather than a hospital, but this was vetoed by Granada executives. During the course of its run, however, Children's Ward won many plaudits for covering difficult issues such as cancer, alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse in a sensitive manner. The programme won many awards, including in 1996 a BAFTA Children's Award for Best Drama, won by an episode in which a serial killer lures children to him via the internet and is – highly unusually for children's television – not eventually caught.Skins
8.144
Overview:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
5.8
Overview:
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.Who Do You Think You Are?
6.729
Overview:
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.The Alan Titchmarsh Show
3.7
Overview:
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.Have I Got News for You
7.1
Overview:
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.The Weakest Link
6
Overview:
Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?GMTV
5.6
Overview:
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.Room 101
6.3
Overview:
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.What the Dickens?
NYR
Overview:
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.The One Show
4.741
Overview:
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.Jonathan Creek
7.515
Overview:
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
5.3
Overview:
All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.Harry Enfield and Chums
7.1
Overview:
Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this sketch comedy show.2DTV
6.6
Overview:
2DTV is a British satirical animated television show that was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom from March 2001 to December 2004. Lasting a total of five series and thirty-three episodes, 2DTV became the successor of popular 80's TV series Spitting Image, and the predecessor of 2008 ITV satirical animation Headcases.Richard & Judy
2.9
Overview:
Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4, from 2001 to 2008, but later moved to digital channel, Watch, in October 2008. The programme featured a number of celebrities and a book club. Its final episode aired in July 2009 due to low ratings.Bleak House
8.204
Overview:
The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.Murder Most Horrid
6.786
Overview:
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
NYR
Overview:
Well-known faces don their aprons in this charity special. Who has got what it takes to go all the way and compete for the Great Sport Relief Bake Off crown?Leonardo
7.5
Overview:
Leonardo is a British children's television series broadcast on CBBC. The show is an adventure programme featuring a teenage Leonardo da Vinci starring Jonathan Bailey. The series is set in 15th-century Florence. A second series premiered on CBBC on 20 September 2012, starting with episodes one and two being shown back to back. For Series 2, actor James Clyde replaced Alistair McGowan in the role of Piero de' Medici. It was announced on 21 January 2013 that Leonardo would not be recommissioned for a third series.FBI Music Magazine
NYR
Overview:
Saturday morning magazine show with music, celebrities and competitions.The Big Impression
4
Overview:
The Big Impression, known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression for the first three series, is a British comedy sketch show. It features Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona impersonating personalities from entertainment and sport. Four series and a number of specials were made by Vera Productions and it was first broadcast on BBC One between 2000 and 2004. The series has won five awards, including the 2003 BAFTA comedy programme prize.Davina
NYR
Overview:
Davina was a British chat show hosted by Davina McCall. It first aired on BBC One on 15 February 2006, however, the show ended on 12 April 2006 at the end of its first series due to low ratings. One show attracted fewer than 2.3 million viewers, when it was moved to 7pm.In the Red
6.2
Overview:
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be sacked for his habitual irreverence toward his station and the BBC. And while everything seems to point to a lead singer of a rock group famous for the "In The Red" music which has been connected to the killings, in typical British mystery fashion, there are also other sub-plots to be considered.Fist of Fun
7.7
Overview:
Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995. It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful, but not a major ratings-winner. The second series was aired on Friday nights, and although its ratings were relatively good, the show suffered from a lack of preparation and poor promotion. The show was not given a third series, and Lee and Herring went on to write This Morning with Richard Not Judy, for BBC Two. Many other comedians who appeared in the series went on to fame themselves, including Kevin Eldon, Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Al Murray, John Thomson, Rebecca Front, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Ben Moor and Sally Phillips.Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
7.1
Overview:
Comedy series in which Rob Brydon plays himself as the host of a low-rent panel showSpitting Image
7.083
Overview:
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.Acting
TBAThe Comedy Annual (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2023Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs as Self
2023My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock as Alfred Hitchcock (voice)
2021The Weakest Link (1 Episode) as Self - Participant
2021Creation Stories as Jimmy Savile
2017Talking Snooker (2 Episodes) as Self - Presenter
201524 Hours in the Past (4 Episodes) as Participant
2012Falklands' Most Daring Raid as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2012The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (1 Episode) as Self - Contestant
2011Arthur Christmas as Additional Voices (voice)
2011Leonardo (13 Episodes) as Piero de' Medici
2010The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa as Self
2010Sports Mash: Taking the Mic (11 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford (1 Episode) as Unknown
2009My Life in Ruins as Nico
2008We Are Most Amused as Self
2008Hairspray: The School Musical (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008What the Dickens? (1 Episode) as Self
2008Ealing Comedy as Vijay Imran Cecil Kuttuputtu Yogesh
2007The Alan Titchmarsh Show (1 Episode) as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2007Skins (1 Episode) as Coach Pooter
2006The One Show (3 Episodes) as Self
2006Best Ever Spitting Image as Self
2006Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive (1 Episode) as Unknown
2006Mayo (8 Episodes) as DI Gil Mayo
2006Davina (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Bleak House (4 Episodes) as Mr. Kenge
2005Monkey Trousers (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2005Comic Aid as Unknown
200529 Minutes of Fame (6 Episodes) as Self - Team Captain
2004Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Football Commentators (voice)
2004Who Do You Think You Are? (1 Episode) as Self
2003Lost and Found as The Funeral Director
2002Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe as Des Yeti (voice)
2001Richard & Judy (1 Episode) as Self
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2 Episodes) as Self
20012DTV (34 Episodes) as Unknown
2000The Big Impression (19 Episodes) as Unknown
2000Cor, Blimey! as Racing Commentator
2000FBI Music Magazine (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire as Des Yeti / Alan Snowman / Trash Bag (voice)
1999Dark Ages (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1998In the Red (3 Episodes) as Murderer's Voice (Voice Only)
1998Parkinson (3 Episodes) as Self
1997Spark (4 Episodes) as Mike
1997Jonathan Creek (1 Episode) as Trevor
1995Crapston Villas (20 Episodes) as Unknown
1995Fist of Fun (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Harry Enfield and Chums (1 Episode) as Waiter
1994Room 101 (1 Episode) as Self
1994An Evening With Gary Lineker as John Motson
1994(All Quiet on the) Preston Front (13 Episodes) as Spock
1993GMTV (1 Episode) as Self
1991Murder Most Horrid (1 Episode) as Marcos
1990Have I Got News for You (1 Episode) as Guest Presenter
1989The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1989Children's Ward (2 Episodes) as Casualty Doctor
1988This Morning (2 Episodes) as Self
1984Spitting Image (94 Episodes) as Unknown
Production
2000The Big Impression (19 Episodes) ... Producer