Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner

Acting
1961-04-06
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Biography

Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner, FKC is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures.

Known For & Full Filmography42 Titles

#1Wogan

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Self

5.3 / 10
Talk

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Top Gear

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes as Self

7.6 / 10
RealityTalk

This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3Have I Got News for You

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as Self

7.2 / 10
ComedyNews

Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4QI

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes as Self

7.9 / 10
ComedyTalk

Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5The One Show

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes as Self - Guest

4.4 / 10
Talk

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6Parkinson

Drama Series - 1998, 16 episodes as Self

8.8 / 10
Talk

Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Who Do You Think You Are?

Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes as Self

7.0 / 10
DocumentaryFamily

A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8Great British Menu

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes as Self - Guest Judge

6.5 / 10
Reality

Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Soccer AM

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Self

6.3 / 10
ComedyTalk

Soccer AM is a British Saturday-morning football-based comedy/talk show, predominantly based around the Premier League. Originally presented by Jane Hoffen, Gary Stevens and Russ Williams, they lasted just a year before Helen Chamberlain and Tim Lovejoy replaced them, where Lovejoy served for over a decade. He has since been replaced by Andy Goldstein and, more recently, Max Rushden. The show has been aired on Sky Sports 2 each Saturday morning of the football season since 1995 from 7:00am or 9:00am to noon originally and currently between 10:00am and 12:00pm. In early 2009, the 500th episode was broadcast. Although the show is filmed live from 2010 it has been broadcast on a momentary delay due to bad language and/or inappropriate content from certain guests. The show's current sponsor is Procter & Gamble through their Head & Shoulders brand. The show was previously sponsored by Frijj, a brand of milkshake, after Dairy Crest signed a £2 million sponsorship deal. Parts of the show have remained since the beginning, whilst new items have been introduced each season. In that respect, it is almost the same every week, the difference being new football footage and comedy skits. Every week sees a new group of celebrity guests, generally featuring at least one footballer who is free on the Saturday, and a mix of musicians, TV personalities, and other sportsmen.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10Going Live!

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Self

8.0 / 10

Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher. The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking. In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11Mock the Week

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes as Self

7.1 / 10
Comedy

Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12Richard Osman's House of Games

Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes as Self - Contestant

6.1 / 10
ComedyTalk

Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13An Audience with...

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Self

5.3 / 10
Talk

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14The BAFTA Awards

Drama Series - 1949, 16 episodes as Host

10.0 / 10
Reality

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15This Week

Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes as Self

7.0 / 10
TalkNews

Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and friends with late night political chat.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Self

7.7 / 10
Comedy

An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#17The Weakest Link

Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes as Self - Contestant

6.0 / 10
Reality

Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#18Kingdom

Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes as Vicar

7.1 / 10
DramaComedy

Looks can be deceiving. Peter Kingdom seems to have everything — a man of some standing in the seaside town of Market Shipborough, he dresses well and has all the trappings of success. Why, then, does he wander along the beach and stare out to sea for hours at a time? Despite Peter's thriving legal practice, he must deal with his dysfunctional family (which includes his unstable sister) and his grief over his missing half-brother and law partner, Simon.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#19The Frank Skinner Show

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Self

7.5 / 10
TalkComedy

The Frank Skinner Show was a television chat show hosted by comedian Frank Skinner, which lasted nine series on British television between 1995 and 2005. As well as celebrity interviews, the shows included an initial stand-up routine, various sketches throughout the episode and usually concluded with a comedic song featuring Frank and the guest stars. The Frank Skinner Show became notorious over the years for the unconventional nature of the interviews, including some shocking revelations from the guests. The programme ended in 2005 after nine series. It was screened on BBC One from its first episode on 10 September 1995 until 3 June 1999. In 2000, the show moved to ITV. The programme was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award in 2001.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#20Bremner, Bird and Fortune

Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the longstanding satirical team of John Bird and John Fortune with the satirical impressionist Rory Bremner, and to date has 16 series.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#21Bottom

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes as Mr Brough (voice)

7.9 / 10
Comedy

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#22The Kenny Everett Television Show

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Bob Geldof

7.3 / 10
Comedy

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#23The Kenny Everett Television Show

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Self

7.3 / 10
Comedy

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#24Believe Nothing

Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes as President George W. Shrub

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Believe Nothing is a British ITV sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. He is paid huge amounts of money for his views consulted by the government but he's bored and wants adventure so he joins the shadowy organization The Council which controls everything going on in the world. Starring alongside Mayall is Michael Maloney as Brian Albumen, Cnut's faithful servant, and Emily Bruni as Dr. Hannah Awkward who becomes professor of pedantics. The series was written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, who give a twist to many of today's global issues. Although much hyped by ITV, who were hoping to repeat the success of Gran and Marks' previous project with Mayall, the successful The New Statesman, the series failed to catch on, and was dropped after one series.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#25The F Word

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
DocumentaryReality

The F Word is a British food magazine and cookery programme featuring chef Gordon Ramsay. The programme covers a wide range of topics, from recipes to food preparation and celebrity food fads. The programme is made by Optomen Television and aired weekly on Channel 4. The theme tune for the series is "The F-Word" from the Babybird album Bugged.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#26Six Nations Sin Bin

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes as Self - Panellist

8.8 / 10
Talk

Getting everyone ready for a Six Nations weekend. Gabby Logan and Gareth Thomas are joined by stars and famous fans to look ahead with previews, predictions and a packed crowd.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#27Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping

Drama Series - 2025, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
Comedy

David Mitchell and Robert Webb combine forces with a host of exciting and innovative future stars. Will it result in a lot of funny, inventive, and very sweary sketch comedy? That is entirely a matter of opinion!

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#28Victoria Wood

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Radio Actor (voice)

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV. Wood appeared as "Victoria", a fictionalised version of herself, in all six episodes - in The Library it was said that she "worked in TV" and in Over To Pam characters appeared to recognise her celebrity and in the final episode, Staying In, she was taken to a party to perform as a comedienne and was expected to go through her stand-up 'routine'. Her character often broke the 'fourth wall' of TV and spoke directly to the camera, but not in every episode. Bored with the sketch format and with a yearning to recapture previous success as a playwright, Wood came up with six individual sitcoms as a compromise. She admitted to finding the writing difficult. Though Wood was written as the central character, other lead parts were written with specific actresses in mind, like Julie Walters and Una Stubbs. "I want people to like me and the people who play my friends, and not everybody else" she said. Screenonline says of the shows "Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity, the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters.".

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#29Victoria Derbyshire

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes as Self

1.0 / 10
NewsTalk

With original stories, exclusive interviews, audience debate and breaking news, Victoria Derbyshire presents the BBC's daily news and current affairs programme.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#30This Morning

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Self

5.2 / 10
TalkNews

This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#31Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes as Self

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Comedy series in which Rob Brydon plays himself as the host of a low-rent panel show

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#32Headcases

Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
AnimationComedy

Headcases was an ITV satirical animation show based on current affairs. It employed the same satirical style as Spitting Image, 2DTV and Bo' Selecta! but using 3D animation created by UK Visual Effects and animation house Red Vision. Red Vision evolved a series of unique production techniques and a sophisticated animation pipeline to deliver the weekly topical elements of the series to hitherto impossible deadlines. The programme's first series began on 6 April 2008, with weekly episodes until 11 May 2008, airing on Sundays at 10 pm. A seventh episode was televised on Friday, 30 May at 10:30 pm, and an eighth at 10 pm on Sunday, 15 June. The show included celebrities, politicians and members of the British Royal Family in their animated form, taking a role in sketches including scenarios from their own topical issues. The show's name comes from the fact that all the subjects' caricatured faces are out of scale with the rest of their bodies.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#33Being Stanley Baxter

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

A portrait of Stanley Baxter, Scotland’s most dazzling TV star of the 1970s and ’80s, whose groundbreaking sketches and lavish specials made him a household name. Behind the fame, Baxter lived a hidden double life as a gay man in a hostile era, balancing public brilliance with private secrecy. Made shortly before his death, the film draws on personal archives and recordings to reveal the man behind the legend.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#34Stanley Baxter: Now and Then

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
DocumentaryComedy

Comedy legend Stanley Baxter returns from retirement and returns to the Christmas schedules with a trawl through the very best of his classic sketches and routines, his memories of making the shows, plus some brand new material, including his contemporary take on the Queen's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#35The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Self

7.7 / 10
ComedyMusic

After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend concert in 1988, Amnesty returned to the original formula that had been so successful in the 1976-1981 era with a primary focus on comedy. Pat Duffy was dropped from organising any further benefit events for Amnesty and for the 1989 show, Amnesty hired producer Judith Holder.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#36A Very Open Prison

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Voice Over

8.5 / 10
ComedyTV Movie

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#37In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Sketch Performer (Archive Footage)

7.0 / 10
DocumentaryComedy

A tribute to Kenny Everett broadcast after his death from AIDS in 1995. Comprising of many of his classic sketches from his 1980s BBC TV series, this tribute also features recollections from those who knew him.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#38Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

Documentary in which the late impressionist's daughters get to the truth about their father's rise to fame and record-breaking success, and his sudden exit from public life. Features Mike Yarwood, Claire Yarwood, Charlotte Yarwood, Michael Crawford, Rory Bremner and more.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#39Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Bob Geldof

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Kenny gives us his rendition of Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, "with apologies to C. Dickens, Esquire"

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#40Between Iraq and a Hard Place

Movie - 2003, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Comedy

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes. They begin with the formation of Iraq by the British in the early 20th Century, through the bombing of villages to control the tribes, the establishment of a king in the area through to the modern day trade meetings with Saddam Hussein.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#41Channel 4 at 25

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

A documentary showcasing the shows of Channel 4 on it's 25th Anniversary.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#42Mike Yarwood at the BBC

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m as Self - Presenter

8.8 / 10

Rory Bremner looks back at the life and career of Mike Yarwood, master of the imitation game and one of the BBC's most successful stars of the 1970s and 80s.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details