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Alistair McGowan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alistair McGowan (born 24 November 1964) is a British impressionist, stand-up comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression (formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression), which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes - winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003. He has also worked extensively in theatre and appeared in the West End in Art, Cabaret, The Mikado and Little Shop of Horrors (for which he received an Laurence Olivier Award nomination.).) As an actor on television he played the lead role in BBC1's Mayo. He wrote the play Timing (nominated as Best New Comedy at the whatsonstage.com awards) and the book A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona. He also provided voices for Spitting Image. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alistair McGowan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Nov 24, 1964 In Evesham, Worcestershire, England
Movie/TV Credits:
29
First Appeared:
In the series The Comedy Annual
Latest Project:
Movie Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs 2023-10-21
Known For
Filmography
Series The Comedy Annual 2025
Movie Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs Self 2023-10-21
Movie Creation Stories Jimmy Savile 2021-04-15
Series 24 Hours in the Past Participant 2015-04-28
Movie Arthur Christmas Additional Voices (voice) 2011-11-10
Series Leonardo 2011-04-11
Series Sports Mash: Taking the Mic 2010-09-29
Movie The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa Self 2010-11-10
Movie My Life in Ruins Nico 2009-06-05
Movie Ealing Comedy Vijay Imran Cecil Kuttuputtu Yogesh 2008-03-21
Movie We Are Most Amused Self 2008-11-15
Series Mayo DI Gil Mayo 2006-03-12
Movie Best Ever Spitting Image Self 2006-07-25
Series 29 Minutes of Fame Self - Team Captain 2005-01-21
Movie Comic Aid 2005-03-02
Series Monkey Trousers 2005-05-20
Movie Churchill: The Hollywood Years Football Commentators (voice) 2004-12-03
Movie Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire Des Yeti / Alan Snowman / Trash Bag (voice) 2002-12-13
Series 2DTV 2001-10-14
Movie Cor, Blimey! Racing Commentator 2000-04-24
Series The Big Impression 2000-04-26
Series Dark Ages 1999-12-20
Series In the Red Murderer's Voice (Voice Only) 1998-05-26
Series Crapston Villas 1995-10-27
Movie An Evening With Gary Lineker John Motson 1994-06-14
Series (All Quiet on the) Preston Front Spock 1994-01-04
Series Only an Excuse? 1993-12-31
Series The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos 1989-11-16
Series Spitting Image 1984-02-26