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Ade Edmondson is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter British born on 24 january 1957 at Bradford (United-kingdom)
Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, musician, television presenter and director. He came to prominence in the early 1980s and was part of the alternative comedy boom. He is probably best known for his comedic roles in the television series The Young Ones (1982–84) and Bottom (1991–95), for which he also wrote together with his long-time collaborative partner Rik Mayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For one episode of this he created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another he played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.
He played the lead role in The Comic Strip's 1985 feature film, The Supergrass. In the 2000s, Edmondson appeared in numerous TV programmes in more serious drama roles including Jonathan Creek, Holby City, Miss Austen Regrets, as himself on Hell's Kitchen and created the sitcom Teenage Kicks. Since 2006 Edmondson has concentrated increasingly on music instead of acting, forming a band, The Bad Shepherds, and performing and writing for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. In 2011 he presented a series of shows for ITV: The Dales, which focused on people working in the Yorkshire Dales, and Ade in Britain in which he undertook a tour of numerous places in Britain. The series was so popular that a second series aired in spring 2012.
Edmondson has been married to fellow comedian Jennifer Saunders since 1985 and they have three daughters and two grandchildren.
On 27 August 2012, Edmondson and Saunders became grandparents when their daughter Ella gave birth to a baby boy, Fred. In 2014, Ella gave birth to another son, Albert.
Edmondson is a supporter and current season ticket holder of League 2 football team Exeter City F.C. and often watches them at home and away matches and follows them on Twitter. He also wrote the foreword to Nick Spencer's Never say die: the remarkable rise of Exeter City, in which he stated that he is a member of the Trust.
On 9 June 2014, Edmondson's long-time comedy partner Rik Mayall died of an acute cardiac event. Ten days later on 19 June 2014, Edmondson was one of the pallbearers at Mayall's funeral.
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Ade Edmondson
Birth name Adrian Charles Edmondson
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 24 january 1957 (67 years) at Bradford (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 24 january 1957 (67 years) at Bradford (United-kingdom)
He played the lead role in The Comic Strip's 1985 feature film, The Supergrass. In the 2000s, Edmondson appeared in numerous TV programmes in more serious drama roles including Jonathan Creek, Holby City, Miss Austen Regrets, as himself on Hell's Kitchen and created the sitcom Teenage Kicks. Since 2006 Edmondson has concentrated increasingly on music instead of acting, forming a band, The Bad Shepherds, and performing and writing for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. In 2011 he presented a series of shows for ITV: The Dales, which focused on people working in the Yorkshire Dales, and Ade in Britain in which he undertook a tour of numerous places in Britain. The series was so popular that a second series aired in spring 2012.
Edmondson has been married to fellow comedian Jennifer Saunders since 1985 and they have three daughters and two grandchildren.
Biography
Edmonson is married to comedian Jennifer Saunders and they have three daughters, Ella, Beattie and Freya. They have houses in Devon and London.On 27 August 2012, Edmondson and Saunders became grandparents when their daughter Ella gave birth to a baby boy, Fred. In 2014, Ella gave birth to another son, Albert.
Edmondson is a supporter and current season ticket holder of League 2 football team Exeter City F.C. and often watches them at home and away matches and follows them on Twitter. He also wrote the foreword to Nick Spencer's Never say die: the remarkable rise of Exeter City, in which he stated that he is a member of the Trust.
On 9 June 2014, Edmondson's long-time comedy partner Rik Mayall died of an acute cardiac event. Ten days later on 19 June 2014, Edmondson was one of the pallbearers at Mayall's funeral.
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The Rizen (2017)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Actors Sally Phillips, Tom Goodman-Hill, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Bruce Payne, Ade Edmondson, Stephen Marcus
Roles Interviewer
Rating35%
In 1955, NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally succeeded but what the Army has unleashed threatens to tear our world apart. One woman must lead the only survivors past horrors that the military has no way to control - and fight to close what should never have been opened.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
, 2h32Directed by Rian Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Oscar Isaac, Benicio del Toro, Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher, John Boyega
Roles Captain Peavey
Rating68%
L'univers de Star Wars est amorcé avec le conflit entre la République galactique et la Confédération des systèmes indépendants, alliance de planètes séparatistes. Cette confédération entraîne des dirigeants de la République dans des affaires ingérables à cause des manigances du Chancelier Suprême Palpatine, chef d'État de la République, qui dit servir la démocratie tout en visant secrètement à établir un empire. Pour rétablir la paix, les Jedi combattent les ennemis de la République, sans savoir que les deux camps sont manipulés par les Seigneurs Sith (Palpatine étant en réalité le Seigneur Sith Dark Sidious). Les Jedi, comme les Sith, sont sensibles à la Force, une capacité d'origine physiologique qui permet à leurs détenteurs d'acquérir certains pouvoirs surnaturels.
Blood (2012)
, 1h32Directed by Nick Murphy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox, Stephen Graham, Zoë Tapper, Ben Crompton
Roles Tom Tiernan
Rating59%
Although they try to realise their job, Joe and Chrissie commit the ultimate crime, and the fear of being caught out by their police force colleague, Robert (Mark Strong), turns their lives into a downward spiral of guilt and paranoia.
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Romance
Actors Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Jack Huston, Samuel Roukin
Roles Henry Austen
Rating69%
Le téléfilm s'appuie en grande partie sur certains épisodes réels de la vie de Jane Austen, et notamment sur ses relations avec l'une de ses nièces préférées, Fanny Knight, future Lady Knatchbull, qu'elle aimait « presque comme une sœur » (« almost like a sister »).
Terkel in Trouble (2004)
, 1h17Directed by David Fincher, Stefan Fjeldmark
Origin Danemark
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Actors Anders Matthesen, Bill Bailey, David Alan Grier, Olivia Colman, Aksel Hennie, Felix Herngren
Rating70%
Terkel is a normal boy who's in 6th grade at a secondary school together with his best friend Jason, who carries an iron pipe with him at all times even though he keeps on dropping it and cuss about it. Terkel and Jason are playing a Game Boy in the schoolyard of Chestnutlane one day when a strange man in a green panda sweater approaches them. The man, Justin (Danish: Gunnar Bjerre), tells Terkel that he has sat on a spider. "Nothing to worry about. They're just jeans. They can be washed." Terkel says.
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
, 1h29Directed by Ade Edmondson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Vincent Cassel, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield, Simon Pegg
Roles Eddie
Rating61%
Richard "Richie" Twat and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba (Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson) run the worst guest house in the United Kingdom ("You're not in any of the guidebooks. Nobody for miles around - an oasis of calm. Even the peasants in the village denied its existence."), neighbouring a poorly maintained nuclear power station. The chef is not only unable to cook, but is both an idiotic drunkard and an illegal immigrant and eventually leaves due to not being paid ("Have you seen Pascal? Oh, damn. I'll have to phone the psychiatric hospital, he's probably checked himself in again!"). The guests (one of them played by Bill Nighy) are thoroughly dissatisfied by the poor service, and all decide to leave, except for one "Mrs Foxfur" (Fenella Fielding) who lives there.
The Pope Must Die (1991)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Mafia films, Films about religion, Gangster films
Actors Robbie Coltrane, Alex Rocco, Beverly D'Angelo, Ade Edmondson, Paul Bartel, Peter Richardson
Roles Father Rookie
Rating51%
The plot is predicated on the Vatican being controlled by the Mafia boss Vittorio Corelli (Herbert Lom). The movie opens with the death of the previous Pope followed by a twenty-five day conclave where the Mob's tame Cardinal Cardinal Rocco (Alex Rocco) successfully persuades the College of Cardinals to elect in absentia the Mafia's favoured candidate to the papacy, Albini (Janez Vajevec), a priest in the service of the Mafia, whom Rocco passes off as an absent "Cardinal Albini".
Directed by Peter Richardson
Actors Nigel Planer, Ade Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders
Roles Billy
Rating70%
The story revolves around Stan (Planer), a lonely and not-very-intelligent Midlands security van driver and ham radio enthusiast who strikes up a long distance romance with Frances (French), an ornithologist on expedition to the Falklands with Kathy (Saunders), a lazier woman she detests immensely. One night while trying to contact her, Stan hears the sounds of a violent altercation and becomes convinced that the island is under attack and that Frances' life is in danger.
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1988)
Directed by Stephen Frears
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Peter Cook, Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Nicholas Parsons, Thomas Wheatley
Roles Dreamy Time Escort
Rating85%
It features Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as the (unnamed) proprietors of an escort agency, Dreamytime Escorts. Mayall's character is devious, low-minded, calculating and stupid; Edmondson's merely very stupid.
Eat the Rich (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Richardson
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Kevin Allen, Ronald Allen, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Planer
Roles Charles
Rating59%
The film begins in a high-class London restaurant named 'Bastards', staffed by the protagonist, waiter Alex (Alan Pellay). Alex is subject to the daily contempt and disgust of the upper-class customers, and is eventually fired for being obnoxious and rude to the clientele. After witnessing an act of terrorism on an embassy, he robs a benefits office and goes on the run with his new friend.
Honest, Decent and True (1986)
Actors Derrick O'Connor, Ade Edmondson, Gary Oldman, Richard E. Grant
Roles Alun Pickersgill
Rating67%
The Supergrass (1985)
, 1h47Directed by Peter Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ade Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Keith Allen, Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle
Roles Dennis Carter
Rating62%
After returning from a holiday in the West Country, Dennis Carter (Adrian Edmondson) tries to impress a girl by untruthfully boasts of being a drug smuggler. The girl is unimpressed however, he is overheard by the police, who persuade him to become a supergrass and inform on his associates.
Dead on Time (1983)
Directed by Lyndall Hobbs
Genres Comedy
Actors Rowan Atkinson, Peter C. Bull, Jo Kendall, Nigel Hawthorne, Nell Campbell, Hugh Thomas
Roles Fool
Rating62%
Director
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
, 1h29Directed by Ade Edmondson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Vincent Cassel, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield, Simon Pegg
Rating61%
Richard "Richie" Twat and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba (Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson) run the worst guest house in the United Kingdom ("You're not in any of the guidebooks. Nobody for miles around - an oasis of calm. Even the peasants in the village denied its existence."), neighbouring a poorly maintained nuclear power station. The chef is not only unable to cook, but is both an idiotic drunkard and an illegal immigrant and eventually leaves due to not being paid ("Have you seen Pascal? Oh, damn. I'll have to phone the psychiatric hospital, he's probably checked himself in again!"). The guests (one of them played by Bill Nighy) are thoroughly dissatisfied by the poor service, and all decide to leave, except for one "Mrs Foxfur" (Fenella Fielding) who lives there.
Scriptwriter
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
, 1h29Directed by Ade Edmondson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Vincent Cassel, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield, Simon Pegg
Roles Writer
Rating61%
Richard "Richie" Twat and Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Ndingombaba (Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson) run the worst guest house in the United Kingdom ("You're not in any of the guidebooks. Nobody for miles around - an oasis of calm. Even the peasants in the village denied its existence."), neighbouring a poorly maintained nuclear power station. The chef is not only unable to cook, but is both an idiotic drunkard and an illegal immigrant and eventually leaves due to not being paid ("Have you seen Pascal? Oh, damn. I'll have to phone the psychiatric hospital, he's probably checked himself in again!"). The guests (one of them played by Bill Nighy) are thoroughly dissatisfied by the poor service, and all decide to leave, except for one "Mrs Foxfur" (Fenella Fielding) who lives there.