Rowan Atkinson

At 69 years old, Rowan Atkinson has this physical status:

Career

In 1979, Atkinson appeared in a series of comedies on BBC Radio 3. It was made up of a sequence of satirical interviews with fictional great men, many of whom were played by Atkinson himself. Atkinson and Richard Curtis wrote the book, and Griff Rhys Jones produced it.

Atkinson did a one-off pilot for London Weekend Television in 1979 called Canned Laughter. He attracted further national attention when he appeared on the third The Secret Policeman's Ball in June 1979, which was broadcast on the BBC, and since then, Elton John, John Cleese ("Beekeeping") and Kate Bush, the former, with whom he appeared on televised skits.

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In 1986, Comic Relief, a British charity charity, held an event. Playing an invisible drum kit and an invisible piano were among the solo skits on television (and without dialogue). Atkinson first appeared on Not the Nine O'Clock News for the BBC in October 1979, his companion John Lloyd's. He appeared on Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones, and Mel Smith as one of the top sketch writers on the show.

Atkinson took the lead role of Edmund Blackadder in the BBC mock-historical comedy Blackadder after the success of Not the Nine O'Clock News. Tony Robinson (who played his long-suffering sidekick Baldrick), Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie were among his co-stars. The Black Adder (1983), co-written by Atkinson and Richard Curtis, was set in the medieval period, with the title character unintelligent and naive. Curtis and Ben Elton's second series, Blackadder II (1986), marked a turning point for the series. It came from the fortunes of one of Atkinson's ancestors, who lived in Atkinson's original story, with the role reimagined as a devious anti-hero. "Watching Atkinson's work in series two is to see a master of the sarcastic retort in action." Blackadder the Third (1987), set in the Regency period, and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), set in World War I. The Blackadder series became one of the most popular of all BBC situation comedies, spawning television specials including Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1989), and later Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999), which was set at the turn of the Millennium. The last scene of "Blackadder Goes Forth" (when Blackadder and his guys go "over the top" and into No-Man's-Land) has been described as "bold and poignant." Edmund Blackadder was ranked third on a 2001 Channel 4 survey of the 100 Greatest TV Characters, boasting an acerbic attitude and armed with a slew of quick put-downs (which are often wasted on those at whom they are directed).

The hapless Mr. Bean, Atkinson's other creation, appeared on New Year's Day in 1990 as part of a half-hour special for Thames Television. Mr. Bean's character has been likened to a modern-day Buster Keaton, but Atkinson has stated that Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was the primary inspiration. "Mr Bean's whole selfish and self-centred, and he doesn't even acknowledge the outside world," Atkinson says. He's a boy in a man's body. Which is what most visual comedians are about: Stan Laurel, Chaplin, Benny Hill.

Several sequels to Mr. Bean appeared on television until 1995, and the character appeared in a feature film later this year. In Not the Nine O'Clock News, Mel Smith, Atkinson's colleague, directed Bean (1997). Mr. Bean's Holiday, a second film, was released in 2007. Inspector Raymond Fowler was portrayed by Atkinson in The Thin Blue Line (1995–96), a television sitcom written by Ben Elton, which takes place in a fictional Gasforth police station.

Atkinson has worked on behalf of Kronenbourg, Fujifilm, and Give Blood. Richard Lathum, a hapless and mistake-prone spy, appeared in a long line of Barclaycard advertisements, based on the actor who played Johnny English, Johnny English Reborn, and Johnny English Strikes Again. In 1999, he appeared as Dr. Curse of Fatal Death, a special Doctor Who serial made for the charity charity Comic Relief. On BBC's Top Gear's Best Buy car in July 2011, Atkinson turned the Kia Cee'd around the track in 1:42.2. His lap time was much quicker than that of previous high-profile record holder Tom Cruise, who was a 1:44.2 seconds, despite placing him at the top of the leaderboard.

Mr. Bean appeared in a comedy sketch during a London performance of "Chariots of Fire" as Mr. Bean, a repetition of a single note on synthesizer. He then devolved into a dream sequence in which he joined the runners from the 1924 Summer Olympics (about the 1924 Summer Olympics), tripping them in their historic run along West Sands at St. Andrews. In Maigret, a series of television shows from ITV, Atkinson starred Jules Maigret.

Atkinson planned to dismiss Mr. Bean in November 2012. "I'm getting a lot less of the stuff that has been most commercially useful for me," Atkinson said in The Daily Telegraph's Review. "I agree that physical fitness begins to decline, but that someone in their 50s being childlike becomes a little sad." You've got to be cautious." He has also stated that the position typecasts him to a degree. Despite these remarks, Atkinson said in 2016 that he would not remove Mr. Bean's name. Atkinson, who appeared on The Graham Norton Show on the BBC in 2018, told Graham Norton that Mr. Bean would return to television again before saying "You must never say never."

In October 2014, Atkinson appeared as Mr. Bean in a Snickers TV commercial. In a sketch for BBC Red Nose Day in which Mr. Bean attends a funeral, he appeared alongside Ben Miller and Rebecca Front in 2015. In the Chinese film Huan Le Xi Ju Ren, Atkinson appeared as Mr. Bean in 2017. In a commercial for Etisalat, a British-based telecommunications firm, Atkinson appeared as Mr. Bean in February 2019. Multiple characters appear in Atkinson's script: a Scottish warrior, a football player, a jungle man, a racing car pilot, a racing car operator, and a masked Spanish vigilante.

Atkinson (as Mr. Bean) received YouTube's Diamond Play Button in October 2018 for his channel's over 10 million followers on YouTube. In 2018, it was one of the world's most watched channels with more than 6.5 billion viewers. In July 2020, Mr. Bean's Facebook fan page with 94 million followers is also "more than the likes of Rihanna, Manchester United, or Harry Potter."

Mr. Bean, his wife, appeared in a new animated series in January 2014, with Rowan Atkinson reprising his role. It was expected to be published as a Web-series later this year, as a television series soon after.

Regular Capital reported that there will be a fifth series of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series in 2019 on February 6th (voiced by Atkinson). "Game Over" and "Special Delivery" were two episodes, consisting of 26 episodes, aired on CITV in the United Kingdom, as well as in Turner channels around the world on 29 April 2019. In February 2019, the five series (104 episodes) were also available on Chinese children's channel CCTV-14.

Atkinson's film career began with a supporting role in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983) and a leading role in Death on Time (also 1983) with Nigel Hawthorne. In 1988, Dennis Jennings' The Appointments of Dennis Jennings won an Academy Award. He appeared in Mel Smith's directorial debut The Tall Guy (1989) and appeared with Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in The Witches (1990), a film adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's novel. In Hot Shots, he appeared as Dexter Hayman. Part II (1993), a parody of Rambo III starring Charlie Sheen, was released.

Atkinson gained more prominence in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, written and directed by his long time collaborator Richard Curtis), and was featured in Disney's The Lion King (also 1994) as the voice of Zazu the red-billed hornbill. In The Lion King, he performed "I Just Can't Wait to Be King." Atkinson continued to appear in supporting roles in comedies, including Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), jewelry salesman Rufus (1998), and Love Actually (2005), which also starred Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, and Patrick Swayze, as a result of Richard Curtis British-set romantic comedy.

Atkinson has also excelled as a leading man in addition to his supporting roles. Mr. Bean, the television star, rose to international prominence with his 1997 film debut. Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) (again inspired by Jacques Tati in his film Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) became a worldwide hit. He has appeared in the James Bond parody Johnny English film series (2003-2012). Atkinson will appear in Wonka, a film that serves as a prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and it will explore Willy Wonka's roots in 2023.

In The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979) in London for Amnesty International, Rowan Atkinson performed live on-stage skits, as well as Monty Python actors. In 1980, Atkinson began a four-month tour of the United Kingdom. Live in Belfast was a recording of the show's appearance that was later published.

Atkinson appeared in a West End revival of the comedy play The Nerd with a 10-year-old Christian Bale in 1984. In 1988 and 1989, Rowan Atkinson, Timothy West, and Cheryl Campbell performed the Sneeze and Other Stories, seven short Anton Chekhov plays, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn.

During the musical Oliver's revival in the West End in 2009, he appeared in a new light. Atkinson played Fagin in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. Fagin's performance and singing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London received raves, and he was nominated for the Olivier Award for best actor in a musical or entertainment.

Rowan Atkinson reprised the role of Blackadder at the Royal Albert Hall in London on November 28, 2012. Baldrick was joined by Tony Robinson as Baldrick. The sketch included the first new Blackadder material for ten years, with Blackadder as CEO of Melchett, Melchett, and Darling bank facing an investigation into the banking crisis.

Atkinson played Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones) and Felicity Montagu in a 12-week production of the Simon Gray play Quartermaine's Terms at Wyndham's Theatre in London in February 2013. With laughter at the Adelphi Theatre in December 2013, he revived his schoolmaster sketch for Royal Free Hospital's Rocks. In a small coffee bar in front of only 30 people a few days before, he did a series of sketches.

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