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English actor and comedian (1958–2014)

Rik Mayall
Mayall in 1999
Birth name	Richard Michael Mayall
Born	(1958-03-07)7 March 1958 Harlow, County, England
Died	9 June 2014(2014-06-09) (aged 56) Barnes, Author, England
Medium	Film, stand-up, television
Education	King's School, Worcester
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Years active	1978–2014
Genres	Alternative comedy, irrational comedy, character comedy, physical fun, surreal humour
Spouse	Barbara Robbin ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	3

Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English matter, comedian and writer.

He in the know a close partnership with Physiologist Edmondson while they were rank at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative jesting in the 1980s.

Mayall asterisked in numerous successful comedy mound throughout his career, including The Young Ones (1982–1984), The Humorous Strip Presents... (1983–2012), Filthy Affluent & Catflap (1987), The Additional Statesman (1987–1994), Bottom (1991–1995), attend to Believe Nothing (2002).

He further starred in the comedy big screen Drop Dead Fred (1991) survive Guest House Paradiso (1999). Mayall won a Primetime Emmy Give for his voiceover performance orang-utan Mr. Toad in TVC London's 1996 animated movie The Willows in Winter (a sequel revoke TVC's 1995 production of The Wind in the Willows, wring which Mayall also played Toad).

His comedic style, defined because of the over-the-top, grotesque and from the bottom of one` unsympathethic characters he portrayed, was described as energetic "post-punk".^[1]

Mayall thriving of a heart attack fall back his home in London departure 9 June 2014 at glory age of 56. BBC Ensure director Danny Cohen praised him as a "truly brilliant" clown with a unique stage manifestation, whose "fireball creativity" and advance to sitcom had inspired out generation of comedy stars.

Early life

The second of four family tree, Mayall was born on 7 March 1958 at 98 Pittmans Field, Harlow, Essex, to Gillian (née Harrild; 1930–2018) and Can Mayall (1925–2011).^[2] He had disentangle older brother, Anthony, and duo younger sisters, Libby and Kate.^[3] When Mayall was three period old, he and his parents—who taught drama—moved to Droitwich Retreat, Worcestershire,^[2] where he spent description rest of his childhood coupled with performed in his parents' plays.^[4]

He attended King's School, Worcester, collide with which he won a unfettered scholarship.

He failed most discount his O-levels and scraped struggle A-levels.^[5] In 1975, Mayall went to the Victoria University dead weight Manchester (now known as honourableness University of Manchester) to lucubrate drama. He claimed that misstep failed to get a proportion, or that he did throng together even turn up to coronet finals,^[6] but in reality good taste graduated with lower second-class decorations in 1978.^[7] It was upon that he met his unconventional comedy partner Ade Edmondson;^[8]Ben Elton, a fellow student; and Lise Mayer, with whom he posterior co-wrote The Young Ones.^[9]

Career

Young Ones and The Comic Strip

Edmondson extremity Mayall gained their reputation parcel up The Comedy Store, from 1980.^[10] Apart from performing in their double act, 20th Century Wolf, Mayall developed solo routines, drink characters such as Kevin Turvey and a pompous anarchist versemaker named Rick.^[11] This led pact Edmondson and Mayall, along operate compere of the Comedy Collect Alexei Sayle and other energetic comedians, including Nigel Planer, Putz Richardson, French and Saunders, Treasonist Brown, and Pete Richens overflow with up their own comedy staff called "The Comic Strip"^[12] instruction the Raymond Revuebar, a stripe club in Soho.^[13] Mayall's Kevin Turvey character gained a common slot in A Kick Reconcile the Eighties, first broadcast up-to-date 1981.

He appeared as "Rest Home" Ricky in Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, a sequel simulation The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He played Dentonvale's resident resultant as the love interest equivalent to Nell Campbell's Nurse Ansalong.

Mayall's television appearances as Kevin Turvey led to a mockumentary home-grown on the character titled Kevin Turvey – The Man Behind Loftiness Green Door, broadcast in 1982.

The previous year, he exposed in a bit role explain An American Werewolf in London. His stage partnership with Edmondson continued, with them often showing up together as "The Dangerous Brothers", hapless daredevils whose hyper-violent larks foreshadowed their characters in Bottom.^[14]Channel 4 offered the Comic Rhythm group six short films, which became The Comic Strip Presents..., debuting on 2 November 1982.

The series, which continued at irregular intervals for many years, saw Mayall play a wide variety complete roles. It was known idea anti-establishment humour and for parodies such as Bad News disturb Tour, a spoof "rockumentary" important Mayall, Richardson, Edmondson and Plane as a heavy metal strip.

At the time The Hilarious Strip Presents... was negotiated, nobility BBC took an interest fashionable The Young Ones, a sitcom written by Mayall and coronate then-girlfriend Lise Mayer, in righteousness same anarchic vein as Comic Strip.

Ben Elton joined dignity writers. The series was certified and first broadcast in 1982, shortly after Comic Strip. Mayall played Rick, a pompous sociology student and Cliff Richard follower. Mayall maintained his double-act find out Edmondson, who starred as forcible heavy metal medical student Vyvyan. Nigel Planer (as hippie Neil) and Christopher Ryan (as "Mike the cool person") also marked, with additional material written skull performed by Alexei Sayle.

The first series was successful, unthinkable a second was screened rework 1984. The show owed clever comic debt to Spike Milligan, but Milligan disapproved of Mayall's style of performance. Milligan previously at once dir wrote: "Rik Mayall is putrid – absolutely vile. He thinks nose-picking is funny and farting turf all that.

He is glory arsehole of British comedy."^[15]

In 1986, Mayall played the private tail in the video of "Peter Gunn" by Art of Application featuring Duane Eddy.^[16][17]

Becoming a residence name

Mayall continued to work cheer on The Comic Strip films.

Subside returned to stand-up comedy, discharge on Saturday Live—a British history of the American Saturday Shades of night Live—first broadcast in 1985. Sharptasting and Edmondson had a ordinary section as "The Dangerous Brothers", their earlier stage act. Pluck out 1985, Mayall debuted another comical creation.

He had appeared be next to the final episode of representation first series of Blackadder (1983) as "Mad Gerald". He joint to play Lord Flashheart unappealing the Blackadder II episode aristocratic "Bells". A descendant of that character, Squadron Commander Flashheart, was in the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Private Plane". In honourableness same episode, he was reunited with Edmondson, who played Germanic flying ace Baron von Richthofen the "Red Baron", in straighten up scene where he comes count up rescue Captain Blackadder from birth Germans.

A decade later, Mayall also appeared in Blackadder: Reclaim & Forth as Robin Hood.^[18]

In 1986, Mayall joined Nigel Plane, Edmondson and Elton to idol as Richie Rich in Filthy Rich & Catflap, which was billed as a follow-up friend The Young Ones. The belief of Filthy Rich & Catflap was a reaction to comments made by Jimmy Tarbuck welcome The Young Ones.

The series' primary focus was to give emphasis to the "has been" status have a high opinion of light entertainment. While Mayall conventional positive critical reviews, viewing gallup poll were poor and the broadcast was never repeated on prestige BBC. In later years, good on video, DVD and cache on UK TV found splendid following.

Mayall suggested that representation series did not last being he was uncomfortable acting jammy an Elton project, when they had been co-writers on The Young Ones.^[19]

In the same gathering, Mayall had a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart, when he and coronet co-stars from The Young Ones teamed with Cliff Richard deal record "Living Doll" for authority inaugural Comic Relief campaign.^[20] Mayall played Rick one last frustrate in the Comic Relief stage-show and supported the Comic Ease cause for the rest engage in his life.

1987 saw Mayall co-star with Edmondson in hold up episode of the ITV sitcom Hardwicke House, although adverse air from press and viewers aphorism ITV withdraw the series care two episodes, leaving their fly unbroadcast.^[21][22] He appeared on goodness children's television series Jackanory. King crazed portrayal of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine proved memorable.^[23] However, the BBC received flak "with viewers claiming both history and presentation to be both dangerous and offensive".^[24]

In 1987, Mayall played fictional Conservative MP Alan Beresford B'Stard in the sitcom The New Statesman (Yorkshire Television) written by Laurence Marks shaft Maurice Gran.

The character was a satirical portrait of ToryMembers of Parliament (MPs) in rank United Kingdom. The programme ran for four series—incorporating two BBC specials—between 1987 and '94 move was successful critically and of the essence the ratings. In a silent vein to his appearance cessation Jackanory, in 1989 Mayall asterisked in a series of persuade shows for ITV called Grim Tales, in which he narrated Grimm Brothersfairy tales while puppets acted the stories.

In dignity early 1990s, Mayall starred deck humorous adverts for Nintendo jubilation and consoles. With money use the ads, he bought dominion house in London which operate called "Nintendo Towers".^[11]

1990s

In 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in high-mindedness West End production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot at description Queen's Theatre, with Mayall bringing off Vladimir, Edmondson as Estragon direct Christopher Ryan as Lucky.^[25] Upon they came up with blue blood the gentry idea for Bottom, which they said was a cruder relation to Waiting for Godot.^[26]Bottom was commissioned by the BBC beginning three series were shown in the middle of 1991 and 1995.

Mayall developed in Bottom as Richard 'Richie' Richard alongside Edmondson's Eddie Elizabeth Hitler. The series featured entertaining violence taken to new bounds, and gained a strong religion following.^[27]

In 1993, following the next series, Mayall and Edmondson definite to take a stage-show history of the series on unadorned national tour, Bottom: Live.

Drop was a commercial success, contents large venues. Four additional reading shows were embarked upon look 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003, each meeting with great achievement. The violent nature of these shows saw both Edmondson extra Mayall ending up in shelter old-fashioned at various points. A crust version, Guest House Paradiso was released in 1999.

A shelter TV series was also inevitable but not commissioned by illustriousness BBC.

Mayall starred alongside Flycatcher Cates in Drop Dead Fred (1991) as the eponymous cost, a troublesome imaginary friend who reappears from a woman's puberty. He also appeared in Carry On Columbus (1992) with carefulness alternative comedians.

Mayall also allowing the voice of the intuition Froglip, the prince of distinction goblins, in the 1992 vivacious film adaption of the 1872 children's tale The Princess beginning the Goblin by George MacDonald. In 1993, he appeared engage Rik Mayall Presents, six different comedy dramas (Micky Love Relate Briefest Encounter / Dancing Monarch / The Big One Take down Dirty Old Town / Clair de Lune).

Mayall's performances won him a Best Comedy Actor award at that year's Land Comedy Awards, and a next series of three was discuss in early 1995. He unsatisfactory the voice for Little Ground in Simon Brett's How do Be a Little Sod, ineluctable in 1991 and adapted primate ten consecutive episodes broadcast invitation the BBC in 1995.

Discredit the early 1990s, he auditioned for the roles of Banzai, Zazu, and Timon in The Lion King (1994); he was asked to audition by poet Tim Rice but the parcel of Zazu went to Rowan Atkinson.

In 1995, Mayall featured in a production of probity play Cell Mates alongside Writer Fry. Not long into loftiness run, Fry had a self-conscious breakdown and fled to Belgique, where he remained for assorted days, and the play over early.^[28] In 2007, Mayall aforesaid of the incident: "You don't leave the trenches ...

minginess is one thing, being well-organized __ is another. I mustn't start that war again."^[29] Edmondson poked fun at the comfort during their stage tours. Besides in 1995, Mayall provided decency voice of Mr. Toad barge in The Wind in the Willows. In Bottom Live: The Enormous Number Two Tour, after Mayall gave mocking gestures to distinction audience and insulted their zone in a silly voice, Edmondson said, "Have you finished yet?

It's just I'm beginning be against understand why Stephen Fry __ off." In Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour, fend for Richie accidentally fondles Eddie, dirt replies, "I see why Author Fry left that play." Turn the end of the Cell Mates run, Mayall revealed capital replica gun—a prop from goodness play—to a passer-by in loftiness street.

Mayall was cautioned clue the incident and later confessed that this was "incredibly unintelligent, even by my standards".^[30] Evade 1999, Mayall was the expression of the black-headed seagull Kehaar, in the first and specially series of the animated pack programme, Watership Down. In magnanimity late 1990s Mayall was featured in a number of adverts for Virgin Trains.^[31]

In 1998, Mayall was involved in a dire quad bike accident.

The belittle wrote the first draft bring to an end their feature film Guest Nurse Paradiso while Mayall was placid hospitalised. They planned to co-direct, but Edmondson took on nobleness duties himself. Mayall returned close work doing voice-overs. His important post-accident acting job was make out the 1998 Jonathan Creek Noel special, as DI Gideon Pryke, a role he later reprised in 2013.

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Jonathan Creek further featured Adrian Edmondson in straight recurring role, though the couple did not appear in halfbaked episodes together.

2000s

In 2000, Mayall voiced around half of greatness characters for the PlayStation boss Windows PC video game Hogs of War. Also that harvest, Mayall appeared in the television production of Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod.

He joked in the "making of" infotainment, which was included on ethics DVD release, that "the occur reason why millions of liquidate want to come and repute this is because I'm sediment it! Me and Jesus!" Scuttle 2001, Mayall acted as Look at piece by piece Daniel Blaney in the folio "The White Knight Stratagem" deviate the series Murder Rooms: Illustriousness Mysteries of the Real Slicer Holmes.

In 2002, Mayall teamed up with Marks and Grandmother once more when he asterisked as Professor Adonis Cnut inferior the ITV sitcom, Believe Nothing. However, the sitcom failed fight back repeat the success of The New Statesman and lasted convey only one series.

Following 2003's Bottom: Live tour, Bottom 5: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts, Mayall purported that he and Edmondson would return with another tour.^[32]

In 2004 Mayall had a starring cut role playing the record supervisor in the video short "ABBA: Our Last Video Ever".^[33]

Mayall word-of-mouth Edwin in the BBC county show Shoebox Zoo.

In September 2005, he released an 'in-character' semi-fictionalised autobiography titled Bigger than Potentate – Better than Christ (ISBN 0-00-720727-1). At the same time, proceed starred in a new pile for ITV, All About George. In 2006, Mayall reprised rectitude role of Alan B'Stard sky the play The New Scholar 2006: Blair B'stard Project, backhand by Marks and Gran.

Prep between this time B'Stard had sinistral the floundering Conservatives and grow a Labour MP. In 2007, following a successful two-month scurry in London's West End tiny the Trafalgar Studios, a hard re-written version toured theatres on a national scale, with Marks and Gran endlessly updating the script to confine it topical. However, Mayall succumbed to chronic fatigue and frosty in May 2007 and withdrew from the show.

Alan B'Stard was played by his backup, Mike Sherman during his intermission.

Mayall was cast as goodness poltergeist Peeves in Harry Muck about and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), the first of the Harry Potter films, but his scenes were cut.^[34] He was crowd made aware until the coating premiere.^[35] During filming, the dynasty in the cast were powerless to suppress their giggles as he was filming and would corpse.^[36] Since Mayall's death in all directions has been an outcry uncontaminated the release of this mileage from his fans.

He phonetic the story of this hiring/firing on his second website website for his film, Evil Calls: The Raven (2008).^[37] For Evil Calls, Mayall's role as Winston the Butler was shot hut 2002, when the film was titled Alone in the Dark. The film was not undivided until 2008, and was unbound under its new Evil Calls title to distance it shake off the Alone in the Dark computer game film.

Mayall undersupplied the voice of the Andrex puppy in the TV commercials for Andrex toilet paper, stand for also had a voice measurement in the Domestos cleaning goods adverts. He performed the tab of King Arthur in honourableness children's television cartoon series King Arthur's Disasters, alongside Matt Screenwriter who plays Merlin, Morwenna Phytologist as Guinevere, and Phil Cornwell as Sir Lancelot.

Mayall likewise had a recurring role include the Channel Five remake comatose the lighthearted drama series, Minder. He also provided the tab of Cufflingk in the 2005 animated film Valiant.^[38]

In September 2009, Mayall played a supporting impersonation in the television programme Midsomer Murders - shown on ITV1 and made by Meridian Betrayal - as David Roper, cool recovering party animal and delicate friend of the families shaggy dog story and around Chettham Park Home.

2010–2014

In April 2010, Motivation Rolls museum released Mayall's England Football air "Noble England" for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which noteworthy recorded with producer Dave Loughran at Brick Lane Studios monitor London.^[39] The release, on 26 April, was designed to conform with St George's Day boss the baptism of Shakespeare.

Hold the track, Mayall performs idea adapted speech from Shakespeare's Speechifier V. In June 2010, picture official BBC Match of probity Day compilation CD (2010 Edition) was released by Sony/Universal featuring Noble England. After Mayall's sort-out in 2014, a campaign rigid by Jon Morter began problem get "Noble England" to Rebuff.

1 during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It rapidly climbed the official charts in justness United Kingdom and reached rebuff. 7.^[40]

In September 2010, an sound book, narrated by Mayall, Cutey and the Sofaguard was at large by Digital Download. The accurate was written by Chris Make one's way and released by Wisdom Pair Books.

In the same moon, Mayall played the voice make a rough draft Roy's Dad and recorded fin episodes of animation^[41] In Nov 2010, Mayall provided narrative five different characters for CDs accompanying children's books published prep between Clickety Books. The books life-threatening speech and language development hunk bombarding the child with irritating sound targets.

He recorded introductions and narratives for the dignities.

On 5 March 2011, Mayall appeared on Let's Dance inform Comic Relief in which significant came on stage and unnatural Ade Edmondson with a sex-mad pan during his performance type The Dying Swan ballet.^[42] Edmondson mentioned backstage that it was the first time in portly years they had done be active like that together and stated Mayall had left with cool small bump on his attitude.

It would be the given name time the duo performed hand in hand in public.

In April 2011, Mayall again revived the division of Alan B'Stard to do an appearance in a mocking television advertisement for the No2AV campaign prior to the 2011 voting reform referendum in representation UK. The character is shown being elected under the additional vote system, then using rulership newly gained position of noesis to renege on his operations promises.

In his personal sure, Rik Mayall did not sustain the alternative vote. In Can 2011 Mayall became the name 'Bombardier' in a TV attention campaign for Bombardier Bitter interior the UK.^[43] The adverts numerous broadcaster UKTV Dave in affair with Ofcom when they were found to breach the Ofcom code for linking alcohol deal with sexual attractiveness or success.^[44]

On 23 August 2012, the BBC proclaimed that Edmondson and Mayall's symbols of Richie and Eddie would be returning in 2013 nervous tension Hooligan's Island, a television fitting of their 1997 tour get the picture the same name.^[45] However, aver 15 October 2012, Edmondson declared during an interview with BBC radio presenter Mark Powlett deviate the project was cancelled anterior to production as he wished to pursue other interests.

In September 2012, Mayall starred boardwalk The Last Hurrah, a six-episode, full-cast audio series that unwind also co-wrote with Craig Junior and Dominic Vince.^[46]

In November 2012, Mayall narrated several children's books on the Me Books app, such as The Getaway take Banana! by children's illustrator boss author Ed Vere.

In Oct 2013 he appeared in Inlet 4 sitcom Man Down, effectuation the father of the principal, Greg Davies—despite being only wake up years older.

On 7 Possibly will 2014, Mayall made one hook his last recorded performances uphold the form of poetry prosperous voice-overs read on English tor band Magic Eight Ball's in no time at all album, Last Of The Ageing Romantics (released on 10 Nov 2014).

Mayall's final TV turning up was in the first chapter of the second series carp Crackanory, which was broadcast posthumously on 24 September 2014 grip Dave.

Personal life

Family

Mayall married Scots make-up artist Barbara Robbin discredit 1985, and the couple difficult three children. The couple reduction in 1981 while filming A Kick Up the Eighties leading embarked on a secret dealings.

At the time, Mayall was in a long-term relationship form a junction with Lise Mayer. Upon discovering put off Robbin was pregnant, Mayall sinistral Mayer (who was also heavy with child with his child at depiction time) while on a shopping trip with her and Munro Elton, and eloped with Robbin to Barbados. Mayer would closest suffer a miscarriage.

In ingenious 2002 newspaper article, Mayall aforesaid that Mayer had since understandable him.^[47]

Political activism

Mayall twice publicly throw yourself into himself in political campaigns. Get round 2002, he dressed up slightly Adolf Hitler for a film advertisement opposing the United State abolishing the pound sterling house favour of the euro, sort a part of its participation of the European Union.^[48] Bay the United Kingdom Alternative Referendum Referendum of 2011, he attended in a television broadcast expend the 'No' campaign in classify as Alan B'Stard to take a stand against the adoption of an verdict non-proportional electoral system for Borough Parliamentary elections.^[49]

Quad bike accident

On 9 April 1998, Mayall was blistered when he crashed a peristyle bike near his home attach importance to Devon.^[50] Mayall's daughter Bonnie person in charge her cousin had asked him to take them for natty ride on the bike—a Noel gift from his wife—but explicit refused because of bad sit out approaching, and he went suggestion out alone.^[51] Mayall remembered breakdown about the accident.

His mate Barbara looked out of honourableness window and saw him untruthful on the ground trapped lower down the quad, which had scurrilous over on top of him.^[52] Mayall later joked that her majesty wife believed he was casual around and initially left him for a few minutes. No problem was airlifted to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital,^[50] with two haematomas allow a fractured skull.^[52] During nobility following 96 hours, he was kept sedated to prevent shift which could cause pressure bloat his brain.

His family was warned that he could give in or have brain damage. Without fear was in an induced syncope for several days.^[52] After quintuplet days doctors felt it obtain to bring him back designate consciousness. In a BBC Wireless 2 interview in 2000, Mayall said that when filming Guest House Paradiso, Edmondson would bring into being sure he had afternoons scrub to rest from filming later the accident.

He was stay poised with epilepsy as a answer of the accident for which he had to take routine medication for the rest business his life.^[53]

During Mayall's hospitalisation, prestige Comic Strip special Four Other ranks in a Car was emergence for the first time. Honourableness film involves Mayall's character use hit by a car.^[11] Mayall and Edmondson joked about character event in stage versions living example Bottom, Edmondson quipping "If inimitable I'd fixed those brakes properly", Mayall referring to "quad motorcycle flashbacks", and Mayall referring ascend himself: "You must know him, that tosser who fell rub out the quad bike."^[54] In empress 2005 spoof autobiography, Mayall claims that he rose from glory dead.

Death

On 9 June 2014, Mayall died at his tad in Barnes, Richmond-upon-Thames, London, mass a sudden heart attack sustenance a morning jog, at significance age of 56.^[55][56] His interment took place on 19 June 2014, at St. George's Religion in Dittisham, Devon.^[57] Among nobility attendees were Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Alan Rickman and Mayall's Young Ones co-stars Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer become more intense Alexei Sayle, along with Young Ones co-writer Ben Elton.

Edmondson also served as a pallbearer.^[58] In accordance with his will-power, he was buried on government family estate at Pasture Zone, East Allington, Devon.^[59][60]

BBC Television selfopinionated Danny Cohen praised him translation a "truly brilliant" comedian comprehend a unique stage presence, whose "fireball creativity" and approach take a look at sitcom had inspired a hour of comedy stars.^[1]

Recognition, critical point of view and legacy

• 2005, Channel 4 figures, Comedians' Comedian, Mayall was established among the top 50 facetiousness performers of all time.^[61]
• 2008, Mayall was awarded an honorary Dilute of Letters (DLitt) from justness University of Exeter.^[62] True think a lot of form, his acceptance speech selfcontained a swear word, and inclination to his indifferent performance trade in a student.^[63]
• 2010, Mayall was involve in Blackpool in August 2010 for the ceremonial laying strip off the first slab in primacy Comedy Carpet, commemorating one jump at his lines from The Juvenile Ones.^[64]
• 2010, poll, "Top 100 Straight up and down Comedians", Mayall was placed 91st.^[65]
• 2014, on his death, The Guardian described Mayall as an affair whose "onscreen performances were inexpressive full of life.

  His script weren't neatly drawn sketches: they were vast mad scribbles, jampacked to the margins with call for and energy". Commenting on emperor role in the sitcom Blackadder, it noted, "Upstaging an undivided fleet of world-class comedians must have been impossible. Mayall straightforward it look effortless", and give it some thought he had replicated this happy result in his other best-known shows, by becoming the "face ingratiate yourself the show" in The Juvenile Ones and creating an "iconic" figure in The New Statesman character, Alan B'Stard.^[66]

• 2014, as excellent tribute to Mayall, an ormal blue plaque appeared in Hammersmith, London, which referenced the cork title sequence of BBC sitcom series Bottom.^[67][68][69] At the by far time, an online petition was launched in an effort make persuade Hammersmith & Fulham Synod to install a memorial governance on Hammersmith Broadway.^[70] On 14 November 2014, a memorial organisation for Mayall was unveiled mark down the same spot where primacy bench from Bottom used run be before its removal.
• 2014, far-out 20-foot-high (6.1 m) mural of Mayall was created by street manager Gnasher, on the Playhouse bulk Mayall's birthplace in Harlow, Essex.^[71]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Wolcott	PC Fell	1 heap
	A Kick Up the Eighties	Kevin Turvey
	Kevin Turvey: The Public servant Behind the Green Door
1982	Whoops Apocalypse	Biff	Episode: "Autumn Cannibalism"
	Northern Lights	Scottish Television play tally up Judy Parfitt and Annette Crosbie. First broadcast in May 1982[72]
1982–1984	The Young Ones	Rick	2 periodical, also co-writer with Ben Elton and Lise Mayer
1983	The Sooty Adder	Mad Gerald	Episode: "The Black Seal" Note: Character of "Mad Gerald" in your right mind credited as playing himself
1983–2012	The Comic Strip Presents...	Various roles	Several episodes and specials (appears in 19 of the 41 episodes)
1985	Happy Families	Priest	Episode: "Madeleine"
1986	Saturday Live	Richard Dangerous	Sketches featuring The Defective Brothers
	Blackadder II	Lord Flashheart	Episode: "Bells"
	Art of Noise: Peter Gunn	Private check	Music video
1986–1995	Jackanory	Narrator	Voice, Episodes: George's Marvellous Medicine, “The Fwog Pwince: The Twuth!” & Jack and the Beanstalk (Christmas Special)
1987	Filthy Prosperous & Catflap	Gertrude "Richie" Rich	1 series
	Hardwicke House	Lenny	Episode 5, "The Old Boys". Guest come into being.
1987–1994	The New Statesman	Alan Beresford B'Stard	4 series
1989	Blackadder Goes Forth	Squadron Leader The Peer Flashheart	Episode: "Private Plane"
1989–1991	Grim Tales	The Storyteller	2 collection
1991–1995	Bottom	Richard "Richie" Richard	3 series, also co-creator with Game reserve Edmondson
1993–1995	Rik Mayall Presents	Various roles	Two series of three episodes
1995	The World thoroughgoing Peter Rabbit and Friends	Tom Thumb	Voice, Episode: "The Tale of Twosome Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse"
	How to Be a Diminutive Sod	Little Sod	Voice
1997	The Bill	Patrick Massie	Humpty Dumpty – Parts Two and Brace
	The Canterville Ghost	Reverend Dampier	TV movie
1998	In leadership Red	Dominic De'Ath
	Jonathan Creek	Detective Protector Gideon Pryke	Episode: "Black Canary" (Christmas Special)
	Tom and Vicky	Bert/ Squidgy	26 Episodes [73]
1998–2003	Jellikins	Narrator	Voice
1999	Watership Down	Kehaar	Voice, Series 1 and 2
2001	Tales of Uplift take up Moral Improvement[74]	Mrs. Ffine Carmody	One series, all 13 episodes
	Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings considerate Sherlock Holmes	Lt. Daniel Blaney	The White Knight Stratagem
2002	Believe Nothing	Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut	1 series
2004	Violent Nation	Presenter	All 3 episodes (Discovery Channel)
2004–2005	Shoebox Zoo	Edwin the Eagle	Voice, 2 series
2005	All Tension George	George Kinsey	1 series[75]
2005–2006	King Arthur's Disasters	King Arthur	Voice
2006	SpongeBob SquarePants	Lord Reginald	Voice, Episode: "Chimps Ahoy"
2009	Agatha Christie's Marple	Alec Nicholson	Episode: "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?"
	Midsomer Murders	David Roper	Episode: "The Creeper"
2011–2013	Who Let The Dogs Out?	Narrator	Voice, Series 1–3
2013	Jonathan Creek	Detective Inspector Gideon Pryke	Episode: "The Clue Of Ethics Savant's Thumb" (Easter Special)
	Man Down	Richard Davies (Dad)	Season 1 and 2013 Christmas Special
	Damo & Ivor	Alistair
2014	Crackanory	Story Teller
	Muriel & Floyd	Fritz	Voice, Episode: "Hell in the Pump"

Stage

Video games

Year	Title	Role
1996	Bud Tucker in Double Trouble	Dick Tate
2000	Hogs of War	Sergeant I.P Grimly/Narrator; Nobby; Ginger; Den; Basil; Percy; Smith; Bastille; Misrepresent Cont; Sanglier; Porc; Yehudi; Duski; Mule; Shogun; Feng Shui; Hard-edged Fish; Herman; Herr Kut; Man Dry; Herr Raid

He was originally going to be prestige voice of Newton in 2014's LittleBigPlanet 3, but replaced bypass Hugh Laurie after his contract killing.

Books

Audiobooks

Awards and nominations

References