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Adrian Scarborough

Adrian Scarborough

  • 56 years old
  • English
  • Actor
Making A Killing. Mr Loveless (Adrian Scarborough)

Adrian Scarborough is an English actor known for appearances in comedy films such as The History Boys, and for TV roles in Professor Branestawm, Up The Women, and Gavin & Stacey.

Year Production Role
2024 Not Even A Mouse Narrator
2024 Barry Island Discs: Gavin & Stacey's Big Songs Send Off Self
2024 Inside No. 9 - Series 9
  1. E3 - Mulberry Close
Larry
2023 Mr. Bigstuff - Series 1
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Ian
2022 Bloods - Series 2
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Gary
2021 Bloods - Series 1
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Gary
2021 Murder, They Hope - Series 1
  1. E1 - The Bunny Trap
Jacob (aka The Bunnyman)
2020 The Windsors - Series 3
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Ian Drabble
2020 Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration Self
2019 Gavin & Stacey - Christmas Special Pete
2019 Candide
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Narrator
2019 Me And My Shadow Ronnie
2019 Me And My Shadow Ollie
2018 Making A Killing Mr Loveless
2018 Urban Myths: The Mysterious Case Of Agatha Christie Chief Inspector Danders
2016 Stella - 2016 Christmas Special
  1. Christmas Special
Horst
2016 Crashing
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Colin
2015 Professor Branestawm - Professor Branestawm Returns The Vicar
2015 Up The Women - Series 2
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  1. E3 - Bowls
  2. E4 - Train
  3. E5 - Vote
  4. E6 - Panto
Frank
2014 Miranda - Final Specials
  1. Special - I Do, But To Who?
  2. Special - The Final Curtain
Charlie
2014 Professor Branestawm - The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm The Vicar
2014 Plebs - Series 2
  1. E2 - The Best Men
  2. E5 - The New Slave
Claudius
2014 Edge Of Heaven
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Bald Gary
2013 Reception Brian
2013 Jo Brand's Great Wall Of Comedy
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Self
2013 Up The Women - Series 1
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Frank
2013 Watson & Oliver - Series 2
  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E3 - Episode Three
  3. E6 - Episode Six
Prime Minister's Husband
2013 Richard Briers: A Tribute Self
2013 Plebs - Series 1
  1. E1 - The Orgy
  2. E3 - The Erotic Vase
  3. E5 - Bananae
  4. E6 - Saturnalia
Claudius
2013 Miranda - Series 3
  1. E6 - A Brief Encounter
Charlie
2012 Brian Gulliver's Travels - Series 2
  1. E3 - Gravinia and Plumpf
Chaplin
2012 Watson & Oliver - Series 1
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Sir Thomas
2012 Get Lucky Racing commentator
2011 The Benefit Of Time Donald
2010 Miranda - Series 2
  1. E3 - Let's Do It
Charlie
2010 What Went Wrong With The Olympics?
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Toby Morrison
2009 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off - Series 4
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Mr Timmis
2009 Miranda - Series 1
  1. E5 - Excuse
  2. E6 - Dog
Charlie
2009 Gavin & Stacey - Series 3
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Pete
2009 Psychoville - Series 1
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Mr Jolly
2009 Minder - Series 11
  1. E5 - Thank Your Lucky Stars
Harvey Stevenson
2008 Gavin & Stacey - Series 2
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Pete
2008 The Genuine Particle Professor Heimlich
2007 Gavin & Stacey - Series 1
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Pete
2007 The History Of Mr Polly Rusper
2006 Saxondale - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
Chairman
2006 The History Boys Mr. Stanley Wilkes (PE Teacher)
2002 TLC
  1. E6 - Agency Nurse
The Phlebotomist
2001 The Big Town All Stars - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Meet the Wife
  2. E2 - Fifteen Minutes of Fame
  3. E3 - East Coast Story
  4. E4 - The Ballad of Kenny and Christine
Johnny
2000 The Big Town All Stars - Series 1
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  1. E1 - If You Scratch My Back
  2. E2 - The Perfect Man
  3. E3 - If You Sack Me, I'll Leave
  4. E4 - Band of Gold
Johnny
1999 Let Them Eat Cake
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Bouffant
1998 The Big Town All Stars - Pilot Johnny
1997 Cows Vicar
1995 Coogan's Run
  1. E3 - Handyman For All Seasons
  2. E6 - The Curator
Councillor Hillary Crabbe
1995 The Madness Of King George Fortnum

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Adrian Scarborough on IMDb

Born
Friday 10th May 1968 (56 years-old)
Nationality
English

Born and raised in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Scarborough was educated at Brooksby Melton College and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, winning the Chesterton Award for Best Actor for school graduates.

Scarborough is perhaps best known for playing Peter "Pete" Sutcliffe, married to Dawn Sutcliffe (played by Julia Davis) in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey. Friends of Pam and Mick's on the show, their marriage is constantly strained, and they regularly insult each other vehemently in public.

Alongside this role, he has featured as Bouffant in Let Them Eat Cake, Charlie in all series of Miranda, Claudius in Plebs, Frank in Up The Women, and the Prime Minister's Husband in Watson & Oliver.

In 2019 he took on the roles of both Ronnie and Ollie on the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Me And My Shadow, about a comic double-act living the mid-20th century.

An accomplished TV dramatic actor and theatre actor, in 2011 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a revival of Terence Rattigan's play After the Dance.

I Talk Telly Awards 2020
Best Comedy Partnership (Nominee)

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