Angus Deayton is an actor, writer, comedian, and broadcaster known as the original and long-term presenter of topical news panel game Have I Got News For You until 2002, and host of Would I Lie To You? from 2007 to 2008.
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2023 | One Foot In The Grave: 30 Years Of Laughs | Self |
2022 | The Emily Atack Show - Series 3
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Narrator |
2022 | Alone - Series 4
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Mitch |
2021 | Funniest Ever Christmas TV Cock-Ups | Narrator |
2021 | Alone - Series 3
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Mitch |
2021 | Happy Birthday Mr Bean | Self |
2019 | Alone - Series 2
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Mitch |
2019 | Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show | Self |
2019 | Radio Active | Self |
2018 | Believe It! - Series 4
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Self |
2018 | Alone - Series 1
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Mitch |
2018 | Radio Active | Self |
2018 | Benidorm: Ten Years On Holiday | Narrator |
2017 | Believe It! - Series 3
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Self |
2017 | Brian Pern - Brian Pern: A Tribute
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Self |
2017 | Alone - Pilot | Mitch |
2016 | Radio Active - 2016 Special | Writer |
2016 | Radio Active - 2016 Special | Ensemble Actor |
2016 | Radio Active | Self |
2016 | Benidorm - Series 8
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Grenville Titcombe |
2014 | Christmas Epic Fails | Host / Presenter |
2014 | One Foot In The Grave - A Celebration Of A Comedy Classic | Self |
2014 | Monks | Cardinal Montgomery |
2014 | The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure | Self |
2014 | Pramface - Series 3
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Alan Derbyshire |
2013 | Pramface - Series 2
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Alan Derbyshire |
2012 | Mr Blue Sky - Series 2 | Priest |
2012 | Pramface - Series 1
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Alan Derbyshire |
2012 | Playing The Moldovans At Tennis | David |
2011 | It's Your Round - Series 2
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Writer |
2011 | It's Your Round - Series 2
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Host / Presenter |
2011 | 24 Hour Panel People | Guest |
2011 | It's Your Round - Series 1
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Writer |
2011 | It's Your Round - Series 1
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Host / Presenter |
2010 | The Many Faces Of... - Series 1 | Self |
2010 | Pete And Dud: The Lost Sketches | Ensemble Actor |
2008 | Would I Lie To You? - Series 2
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Writer (Additional Material) |
2008 | Would I Lie To You? - Series 2
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Host / Presenter |
2008 | Comedy Sketchbook | Host / Presenter |
2007 | Would I Lie To You? - Series 1
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Writer (Additional Material) |
2007 | Would I Lie To You? - Series 1
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Host / Presenter |
2006 | Help Yourself, With Angus Deayton
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Writer |
2006 | Help Yourself, With Angus Deayton
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Host / Presenter |
2005 | Nighty Night - Series 2
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Don Cole |
2005 | Absolute Power - Series 2
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Colin Priestly |
2005 | Monkey Trousers
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Various |
2005 | Heartless | Harry Holland |
2005 | Marigold | Kenneth |
2004 | The All Star Comedy Show
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Ensemble Actor |
2004 | Britain's Best Sitcom
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Guest |
2004 | Nighty Night - Series 1
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Don Cole |
2004 | Bognor Or Bust | Host / Presenter |
2003 | Absolute Power - Series 1
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Colin Priestly |
2003 | Comedians' Comedians - Series 2
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Host / Presenter |
2002 | Peter Cook - A Posthumorous Tribute | Self |
2002 | Radio Active - 2002 Special | Writer |
2002 | Radio Active - 2002 Special | Ensemble Actor |
2002 | Have I Got News For You - Series 24
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Host / Presenter |
2002 | Have I Got News For You - Series 23
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Host / Presenter |
2001 | Have I Got News For You - Series 22
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Host / Presenter |
2001 | Happiness - Series 1
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Self |
2001 | Have I Got News For You - Series 21
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Host / Presenter |
2000 | The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton | Host / Presenter |
2000 | I Don't Believe It! - The One Foot In The Grave Story | Self |
2000 | I Don't Believe It! - The One Foot In The Grave Story | Host / Presenter |
2000 | Comedians' Comedians - Series 1
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Host / Presenter |
2000 | Have I Got News For You - Series 20
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Host / Presenter |
2000 | One Foot In The Grave - Series 6
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Patrick Trench |
2000 | Coupling - Series 1
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Self |
2000 | Have I Got News For You - Series 19
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Host / Presenter |
2000 | The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything
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Writer |
2000 | The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything
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Host / Presenter |
1999 | Have I Got News For You - Series 18
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Host / Presenter |
1999 | Have I Got News For You - Series 17
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Host / Presenter |
1999 | Angus Deayton's History Of Alternative Comedy | Host / Presenter |
1999 | A History Of Alternative Comedy | Host / Presenter |
1998 | The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton | Host / Presenter |
1998 | Have I Got News For You - Series 16
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Host / Presenter |
1998 | Have I Got News For You - Series 15
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Host / Presenter |
1997 | The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton | Host / Presenter |
1997 | One Foot In The Grave - 1996 & 1997 Specials
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Patrick Trench |
1997 | Have I Got News For You - Series 14
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Host / Presenter |
1997 | Have I Got News For You - Series 13
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Host / Presenter |
1996 | The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton | Host / Presenter |
1996 | Have I Got News For You - Series 12
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Host / Presenter |
1996 | Lord Of Misrule | MI5 Man |
1996 | Have I Got News For You - Series 11
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Host / Presenter |
1996 | Fantasy Football - Series 3
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Guest |
1995 | The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton | Host / Presenter |
1995 | Have I Got News For You - Series 10
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Host / Presenter |
1995 | Room 101 - Series 2
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Guest |
1995 | Have I Got News For You - Series 9
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Host / Presenter |
1995 | One Foot In The Grave - Series 5
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Patrick Trench |
1994 | Have I Got News For You - Series 8
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Host / Presenter |
1994 | Have I Got News For You - Series 7
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Host / Presenter |
1994 | Smashie & Nicey - End Of An Era | Self |
1993 | If You See God, Tell Him
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Bank Manager |
1993 | Have I Got News For You - Series 6
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Host / Presenter |
1993 | KYTV - Series 3
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Writer |
1993 | KYTV - Series 3
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Mike Channel |
1993 | Have I Got News For You - Series 5
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Host / Presenter |
1993 | One Foot In The Grave - Series 4
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Patrick Trench |
1992 | Have I Got News For You - Series 4
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Host / Presenter |
1992 | Have I Got News For You - Series 3
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Host / Presenter |
1992 | KYTV - Series 2
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Writer |
1992 | KYTV - Series 2
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Mike Channel |
1992 | One Foot In The Grave - Series 3
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Patrick Trench |
1992 | Rowan Atkinson Live | Ensemble Actor |
1991 | Have I Got News For You - Series 2
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Host / Presenter |
1991 | Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Series 3
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Ensemble Actor |
1991 | Doctor At The Top
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Adrian Quint |
1990 | One Foot In The Grave - Series 2
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Patrick Trench |
1990 | Have I Got News For You - Series 1
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Host / Presenter |
1990 | KYTV - Series 1
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Writer |
1990 | KYTV - Series 1
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Mike Channel |
1990 | Mr. Bean | Swimming Pool Attendant |
1990 | Have I Got News For You | Writer (Additional Material) |
1990 | The British Comedy Awards | Host / Presenter |
1989 | Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor |
1989 | KYTV - Pilot | Writer |
1989 | KYTV - Pilot | Mike Channel |
1989 | The Tall Guy | Actor in Agent's Office |
1988 | Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Series 1
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Ensemble Actor |
1988 | Chelmsford 123 - Series 1 | Aldridge |
1987 | Radio Active - Series 7
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Composer |
1987 | Radio Active - Series 7
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Writer |
1987 | Radio Active - Series 7
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Ensemble Actor |
1986 | Radio Active - Series 6
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Composer |
1986 | Radio Active - Series 6
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Writer |
1986 | Radio Active - Series 6
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Ensemble Actor |
1985 | Radio Active - Series 5
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Composer |
1985 | Radio Active - Series 5
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Writer |
1985 | Radio Active - Series 5
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Ensemble Actor |
1984 | Radio Active - Series 4
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Writer |
1984 | Radio Active - Series 4
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Ensemble Actor |
1983 | Radio Active - Series 3
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Writer |
1983 | Radio Active - Series 3
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Ensemble Actor |
1983 | Blackadder - The Black Adder
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Jumping Jew of Jerusalem |
1982 | Radio Active - Series 2
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Writer |
1982 | Radio Active - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor |
1981 | '81 Take 2 | Self |
1981 | Radio Active - Series 1
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Writer |
1981 | Radio Active - Series 1
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Ensemble Actor |
1980 | Radio Active - The Oxford Revue Presents Radio Active | Writer |
1980 | Radio Active - The Oxford Revue Presents Radio Active | Ensemble Actor |
1980 | Week Ending - Series 32
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Writer |
Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Angus Deayton on IMDb
- Born
- Friday 6th January 1956 (68 years-old)
- Nationality
- English
Angus Deayton was raised in Banstead, Surrey, and attended Oakhyrst Grange School and Caterham School. He went on to New College, Oxford, where he read languages and was accepted into the Oxford Revue, regularly performing at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here he co-formed the parody band the Ehe Bee Gee Bees in 1980, featuring songs written by Richard Curtis and Philip Pope]. One of their songs became a best-selling single, "Meaningless Songs (In Very High Voices", was a parody of the Bee Gees' famous falsetto style of singing.
Deayton's career began with Radio Active, a radio comedy show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the 1980s, itself the product of a 1979 Edinburgh Fringe show by the Oxford Revue in which he had starred. First broadcast in 1980, it ran for a full seven series in total, before transferring to television as KYTV[ between 1989 and 1993. Deayton frequently collaborated as a straight man alongside renowned comedy actor Rowan Atkinson, starring as a pool attendant and a man on a park bench in the Mr. Bean episode "The Curse of Mr. Bean". He would also star as one of the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem in the 1983 Blackadder episode "Born to Be King".
From 1998 to 1991, Deayton starred in all three series of the Emmy award-winning sketch comedy programme Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and in 1990 took on the role of the Meldrews' neighbour Patrick Trench in the BBC comedy series One Foot In The Grave. This year would be huge for Deayton, because he was also chosen as host of BBC panel show Have I Got News For You, a role which led to one Time Out writer calling him "TV's Mr Sex". His success in this format would make him a desirable presenter, hosting television specials such as the BBC's New Year's Eve show and the BAFTA Awards.
In May 2002, the British tabloid newspaper the News of the World reported that Deayton had taken cocaine and slept with a number of prostitutes. Although he joked about it during the following episode of Have I Got News For You, taking a good ribbing from recurring panellists Paul Merton and [o]Ian Hislop], when more allegations surfaced in October Deayton was sacked two episodes into the new series. One online poll on the BBC's own website suggested that 75% of respondents wanted to Deayton to remain as host, and in April 2003, Stephen Fry supported Deayton by refusing to appear on the programme again.
After his stint on Have I Got News For You, Deayton featured in a reunion of the Radio Active cast in a new episode in December 2002, and in 2003 he guest-starred as Downing Street's spin doctor in an episode of BBC political comedy Absolute Power. He has played the role of Don Cole in two series of Nighty Night, hosted Would I Lie To You? for series 1 and 2, and played Alan Derbyshire in series 1-3 of BBC Three's comedy Pramface, about two young parents who get unexpectedly pregnant and have to deal with the consequences.
In 2008 Deayton presented Comedy Sketchbook, a nostalgic look back at some of the greatest British sketch comedies of all time, and in that same year presented the British Comedy Awards, after host Jonathan Ross topped down because of the controversy surrounding The Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls to actor Andrew Sachs.
In 2017 Deayton began work on the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Alone, about five single, middle-aged people living in a converted Victorian townhouse in North London.
- Loaded LAFTAs 2004
- Funniest TV Personality (Nominee)
- BAFTA Television Awards 2003
- Best Entertainment Performance (Nominee)
- BAFTA Television Awards 2001
- Best Entertainment Performance (Nominee)
- Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 1992
- Best Performer in a Non-Acting Role (Winner)
- British Comedy Awards 1991
- Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist (Winner)
- British Comedy Awards 1990
- Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist (Nominee)
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