Adrian Dunbar
- Northern Irish
- Actor and writer
Press clippings
Inside No. 9 script being auctioned for charity
Steve Pemberton is raising money for charity by auctioning off a signed Inside No. 9 script, and also a signed copy of the hare statue that was hidden in many of episodes of the hit comedy anthology series.
British Comedy Guide, 15th June 2024John Bishop joins next series of DNA Journeys
John Bishop is joining the cast of series four of DNA Journeys. Hugh Bonneville, Adrian Dunbar, Neil Morrisey, Alex Brooker, Johnny Vegas and Oti and Motsi Mabuse will also take part in the new series airing later this year.
Liverpool Echo, 3rd February 2023What a laugh Adrian Dunbar has in Inside No 9. He plays himself, playing a cop. Not that cop - not Ted Hastings - but a detective in a true crime drama shooting in a dreary caravan park.
The crime in question is a baby-snatch from 20 years before, hardly ready-made gag material, but you know these No 9 boys - they love a macabre challenge. This week's episode, Hurry Up and Wait, is creepy enough to remind me of those old Alfred Hitchcock Presents until Dunbar bursts into the green room in a truly hideous jacket. The man has just been in Line of Duty, the biggest show around, and yet is as insecure as the next actor. Reece Shearsmith is a bit-parter playing alongside him. Dunbar nicks all of his dialogue, leaving him with just a head-nod, face unseen, and proceeds to ham it up something terrible: "I really think we've got the bastard!"
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 5th June 2021Review: Inside No. 9 - Hurry Up And Wait
A claustrophobic and unsettling watch.
Luke, The Custard TV, 1st June 2021TV: Inside No 9, Hurry Up And Wait, BBC Two
The world of TV criticism is in danger of running out of superlatives when it comes to Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Inside No 9.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st May 2021Inside No 9: Hurry Up And Wait review
This week's episode of Inside No 9 hit that sweet spot between spookiness and humour that Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are so good at finding. And a large part of that is down to the very game guest stars, playing against type.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 review: Hurry Up And Wait
Line Of Duty's Adrian Dunbar plays himself in a deliberately uncomfortable blend of comedy and true crime drama that plays with Inside No. 9's twist tradition. Spoilers.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 review: Adrian Dunbar was an absolute hoot
The Line Of Duty star sent himself up marvellously in an episode that had strong echoes of The League Of Gentlemen.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 Series 6 cast revealed
Filming has completed on Series 6 of Inside No. 9. The guest stars joining Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith will include Sian Clifford, Adrian Dunbar, Paterson Joseph and Sir Derek Jacobi.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2021Radio Times review
A third outing for Charlie Brooker's Naked Gun-style cop spoof, although the comparison's becoming fainter and fainter. This is the strongest instalment yet, because the show's built up its own armoury of bad puns, ridiculous direction and smashed fourth walls. It no longer needs to bother about specifically spoofing individual crime dramas, either.
The story, as if that's important, concerns a serial killer who seems to be linked to a sinister therapy spa. Adrian Dunbar plays its powerful owner, doing a particularly good maniacal laugh that goes on for much too long. Karen Gillan is a bit underused as the squad's naive new flibbertigibbet, but that's fine because regular stars John Hannah and Suranne Jones are better than ever at straight-faced, dignity-shredding baloney. Keep looking out for the signs on the wall behind them.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 9th August 2014