Simon Pegg (born
Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
,
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
,
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
,
film producerA film producer or movie producer is someone who creates the scenes and conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors...
and
directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
. He is best known for his starring roles in
Shaun of the DeadShaun of the Dead is a 2004 British romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright....
,
Hot FuzzHot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park...
,
Run Fatboy RunRun Fatboy Run is a 2007 British romantic comedy film directed by David Schwimmer, written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg, and starring Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort and Hank Azaria...
, the comedy series
SpacedSpaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop-culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism...
and his recent portrayal of
ScottyMontgomery Scott is a character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by James Doohan in the original Star Trek series, Scotty also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", and in numerous books, comics, and...
in
Star Trek. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of
Nick FrostNicholas John Frost is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the role of Mike Watt in the comedy Spaced, Ed in Shaun of the Dead, as well as PC Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz.-Early life:Frost was born in Dagenham in London...
, Jessica Hynes,
Dylan MoranDylan Moran is a BAFTA and Perrier Award-winning Irish comedian, actor and writer. He is most famous for his observational comedy, the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...
and
Edgar WrightEdgar Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and TV series Spaced.-Biography:...
. Pegg has a close friendship with
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
David SchwimmerDavid Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of television and film. Born in New York, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of two. Several years later, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern...
. The two have worked together in
Band of Brothers,
Big NothingBig Nothing is a black comedy/neo-noir film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. It was released in December 2006, and had its premiere at Cardiff Film Festival in November 2006....
and
Run Fatboy RunRun Fatboy Run is a 2007 British romantic comedy film directed by David Schwimmer, written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg, and starring Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort and Hank Azaria...
. His likeness was also used for the character of Wee Hughie in the comic book series
The BoysThe Boys is an American creator-owned comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson. It was originally published by Wildstorm before moving to Dynamite Entertainment...
; while this was done without Pegg's permission, he quickly became a fan of the title, and even wrote the introduction to the first bound volume.
Early life
Pegg was born in Brockworth,
GloucesterGloucester is a city, district and county town of Gloucestershire in the South West region of England. Gloucester lies close to the Welsh border, and on the River Severn, approximately north-east of Bristol, and south-southwest of Birmingham....
, England, the son of Gillian Rosemary (
néeA married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. His parents divorced when he was seven and he took on the surname "Pegg" after his mother re-married. He attended many schools including Castle Hill Primary School and
Brockworth Comprehensive Secondary SchoolBrockworth Enterprise School is a co-educational, fully comprehensive Community School and the first Business and Enterprise College in Gloucestershire. It is an 11-18 school for 900 students with a Sixth Form of 100 students. There are over 50 teaching staff...
and later Stratford-upon-Avon College to study English Literature and Performance Studies. Pegg studied drama at the
University of BristolThe University of Bristol is a university in Bristol, England. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876...
and wrote his undergraduate thesis on "A
MarxistMarxism is the political philosophy and economic worldview based upon a materialist interpretation of history, a Marxist analysis of capitalism, a theory of social change, and an atheist view of human liberation derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; three primary aspects of...
overview of popular Seventies cinema and
hegemonicCultural hegemony is the philosophic and sociological concept, originated by the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, denoting that a culturally-diverse society can be ruled , by one of its social classes. It is the dominance of one social group over another, i.e. the ruling class over all other...
discourses". At Bristol he appeared in a Drama Society production of
Howard BarkerHoward Barker is a British playwright.-The Theatre of Catastrophe :Barker has coined the term "Theatre of Catastrophe" to describe his work...
's
Victory alongside
Sarah KaneSarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
and
David GreigDavid Greig is a Scottish playwright and theatre director.Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and was brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol University. He has been commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company amongst others.His...
.
Career
In 1993 he moved to
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
and performed on the
stand-up comedyStand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand...
circuit. In 1995 he took his acclaimed one-man show to the Edinburgh Festival, which led to his being invited to perform at festivals in
AdelaideAdelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million. It is a coastal city situated on the eastern shores of Gulf St. Vincent, on the Adelaide Plains, north of the Fleurieu...
and
MelbourneMelbourne is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne city centre is the anchor of the larger geographical area and statistical division known as the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area – of which Melbourne is...
in
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
and
AucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population approaching 1.4 million residents, percent of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest...
,
WellingtonWellington is the capital of New Zealand, at the southwestern tip of the North Island between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. The Wellington urban area is the major population centre of the southern North Island and is New Zealand's third most populous urban area with residents. There are ...
and
ChristchurchChristchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area. It is one third the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of Christchurch.The city was named by...
in
New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
, which he did in 1996 and 1997. His work as a stand up attracted the attention of several TV producers, leading to appearances in
Asylum,
Six Pairs of Pants,
Faith in the FutureFaith in the Future was a British comedy television show running from 1995-1998. It was a sequel to the show Second Thoughts. It aired on ITV for 22 episodes....
,
Big TrainBig Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted...
and
Hippies. From 1998 to 2004, Pegg regularly featured on
BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.-Outline:...
's
The 99p ChallengeThe 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The show is presented by Sue Perkins and features a selection of regular panelists such as Armando Iannucci and regular writers Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Jon Holmes and Tony Roche...
. In 1999, he created and co-wrote the
Channel 4Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station owned now and operated by the Channel Four Television...
sitcom
SpacedSpaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop-culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism...
with Jessica Stevenson. For this project Pegg brought in
Nick FrostNicholas John Frost is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the role of Mike Watt in the comedy Spaced, Ed in Shaun of the Dead, as well as PC Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz.-Early life:Frost was born in Dagenham in London...
, his best friend. For his performance in this series, Pegg was nominated for a
British Comedy AwardThe British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.-History:...
as Best Male Comedy Newcomer. Pegg co-wrote (with
Spaced director
Edgar WrightEdgar Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and TV series Spaced.-Biography:...
) and starred in the "romantic
zombieA zombie is a creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful sorcerer...
comedy" film (or "RomZomCom", also "Zomedy" and "Romantic Zomedy")
Shaun of the DeadShaun of the Dead is a 2004 British romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright....
, released in April 2004. At
George A. RomeroGeorge Andrew Romero is an American film director, screenwriter, editor and occasional actor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed Grandfather of the Zombie....
's invitation, Pegg and Wright made cameo appearances in Romero's film,
Land of the DeadLand of the Dead is a horror film by director George A. Romero, the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead...
. In 2004 Pegg also starred in a spin-off of the television show
Danger! 50,000 Volts!Danger! 50,000 Volts! is a 2002 British television programme written and presented by Nick Frost, which presented viewers with various life-threatening scenarios and suggested ways out of these situations. The show was a spoof of the outdoors survival genre in which survival experts demonstrated...
called
Danger! 50,000 Zombies!, in which he played a zombie hunter named Dr. Russel Fell.
Pegg's other credits include the
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
miniseriesA miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
Band of Brothers, guest appearances on
Black BooksBlack Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. It was written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and produced by Nira Park...
,
Brass Eye Special,
I'm Alan PartridgeI'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan of which two series of six episodes were produced, the first in 1997 and the second in 2002....
,
The Parole OfficerThe Parole Officer is a 2001 film, directed by John Duigan and starring Steve Coogan.-Plot:Simon Garden is a well-meaning but ineffectual probation officer. At the beginning of the film, he is facing a tribunal after his entire department in Blackpool submit complaints against him, Garden having...
and in the
Factory RecordsFactory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and James and Orchestral...
story
24 Hour Party People24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom....
. He also played the
mutantA mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the wild type. The natural...
bounty hunterA bounty hunter captures fugitives for a monetary reward . Other names, mainly used in the United States, include, bail enforcement agent, fugitive recovery agent, and bail fugitive investigator...
Johnny Alpha, the
Strontium DogStrontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons....
, in a series of
Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based on British cult science fiction properties...
audio playRadio Drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story....
s based on the character from British comic
2000 AD2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated February 26...
and featured in
Guest House ParadisoGuest House Paradiso is a 1999 comedy slapstick film, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and directed by Edmondson. It is based on their comedy television series Bottom...
, a film based on the sitcom
BottomBottom is an award-winning British sitcom of the early 1990s , written by and starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, as the crude, deranged Richie and Eddie, two desperate flatmates on the dole...
.
Pegg appeared in the
Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based on British cult science fiction properties...
Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...
audio story
Invaders From MarsInvaders from Mars is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
as Don Chaney, and portrayed the Editor in the 2005
Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...
episode "
The Long Game"The Long Game" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on May 7, 2005. This episode is the final appearance of Bruno Langley as Adam Mitchell.-Synopsis:...
". He also narrated the first series of the documentary series
Doctor Who ConfidentialDoctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode is broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly...
.
Upon completion of
Shaun of the Dead, Pegg was questioned on whether he would be abandoning the British film industry for bigger and better things, to which he replied "It's not like I'm going to run off and do
Mission: Impossible IIIMission: Impossible III a 2006 action film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt....
!" He then promptly went on to do just that, playing Benji Dunn, an
I.M.F.The Impossible Missions Force is a fictional independent espionage agency commonly employed by the United States government. It was introduced in the 1966-73 television series Mission: Impossible, and later in the revival series that ran from 1988 to 1990...
technician who assists
Tom CruiseThomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards...
's character,
Ethan HuntEthan Matthew Hunt is the central fictional character from the Mission: Impossible film series.In the first movie, it was mentioned that his parents owned a farm in the state of Wisconsin, and that his father died of illness, after which time an uncle named Donald moved in to help with the farm...
. In 2006 he played an American character, Gus, in
Big NothingBig Nothing is a black comedy/neo-noir film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. It was released in December 2006, and had its premiere at Cardiff Film Festival in November 2006....
alongside
David SchwimmerDavid Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of television and film. Born in New York, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of two. Several years later, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern...
.
In 2006, Pegg and Wright completed their second film,
Hot FuzzHot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park...
, released in February 2007. The film is a police-action movie homage and also stars Nick Frost. Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, a London policeman who is transferred to rural Sandford, where grisly events take place.
In 2007, Pegg starred in
The Good NightThe Good Night, a romantic comedy, is the first movie written and directed by Jake Paltrow. The film stars his sister Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg and others...
(directed by
Jake Paltrow-Personal life:Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, to the late film director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner. He is the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow, nephew of Harry Danner, cousin of Hillary Danner and Katherine Moennig, brother-in-law of Chris Martin, and uncle of 'Apple...
) and
Run Fatboy RunRun Fatboy Run is a 2007 British romantic comedy film directed by David Schwimmer, written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg, and starring Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort and Hank Azaria...
directed by
David SchwimmerDavid Lawrence Schwimmer is an American actor and director of television and film. Born in New York, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of two. Several years later, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Beverly Hills High School. In 1988, he graduated from Northwestern...
and co-starring
Thandie NewtonThandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton is an English actress. She has appeared in a number of successful British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness; Run, Fat Boy, Run; Mission: Impossible II; Crash and W....
and
Hank AzariaHank Albert Azaria is an American film, television and stage actor, director, comedian and voice artist. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons...
.
In 2008, Pegg wrote the dialogue for an
English languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
re-release of the cult 2006 animated Norwegian film,
Free JimmyFree Jimmy is a Norwegian/British computer animated feature film first released in Norwegian language in 2006, and later in English language in 2008. The film was written and directed by acclaimed Norwegian subculture comic book artist Christopher Nielsen...
. Pegg received screenwriting credit for this, and Pegg also voiced one of the main characters in the English language version, which has an international range of actors including
Woody HarrelsonWoodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor.Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd...
.
Pegg is co-writing and starring with Nick Frost in an upcoming film entitled
PaulPaul is an upcoming 2010 comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.-Plot Summary:Two British comic book geeks go on a road trip through America...
, with production expected to begin in June 2009. The plot revolves around characters played by Pegg and Frost road tripping across America. Pegg also announced that he and Wright had the idea for "the concluding part in what we are calling our 'Blood and Ice Cream' trilogy" (the first two being
Shaun of the DeadShaun of the Dead is a 2004 British romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright....
and
Hot FuzzHot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park...
). It is provisionally called
The World Ends.
In those films and in
Spaced, Pegg typically plays the leading hero while Frost plays the sidekick. However, he has revealed that
Paul will reverse this dynamic. Pegg has also stated that Wright will not direct,
Paul not being part of their 'Blood and Ice Cream' trilogy. The completed script appeared on the 2008 Black List, a film-industry-compiled list of the best unproduced screenplays.
Paul received two votes.
Pegg played engineer
Montgomery "Scotty" ScottMontgomery Scott is a character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by James Doohan in the original Star Trek series, Scotty also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", and in numerous books, comics, and...
in the newest
Star Trek film, released 8 May 2009. He wore a kilt to the film's United Kingdom premiere, at the Empire Leicester Square theatre. He told Jo Russell's show on Absolute Radio that he is waiting for a Scotty action figure to add to his collection of Simon Pegg action figures from
Dr Who,
Hot Fuzz, and
Shaun of the Dead. He is currently completing a film, directed by
John LandisJohn David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson; Landis has also done many horror projects.-Early life and family:...
, about Burke and Hare, the
UlsterUlster is one of the four Provinces of Ireland, located in the north of the island.Ulster is composed of nine counties: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone are part of Northern Ireland; while Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan are part of the Republic of Ireland.-Terminology:The...
men who were notorious murderers and bodysnatchers in early nineteenth-century
EdinburghEdinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the second largest Scottish city, after Glasgow, and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas....
.
Personal life
Pegg married Maureen McCann on 23 July 2005, in
GlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
.
Nick FrostNicholas John Frost is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the role of Mike Watt in the comedy Spaced, Ed in Shaun of the Dead, as well as PC Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz.-Early life:Frost was born in Dagenham in London...
was the best man at his wedding. The couple currently reside in
Finsbury ParkFinsbury Park is an area in north London, England which grew up around an important railway interchange at the junction of the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney...
, London - where
Shaun of the DeadShaun of the Dead is a 2004 British romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright....
was also filmed. On 21 February 2009, Pegg announced his wife was five months pregnant with the couple's first child. The baby was delivered successfully in July 2009, a healthy baby daughter.
Along with
Jonny BucklandJonathan Mark Buckland , known as Jonny Buckland, is an English guitarist and musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the band Coldplay.-Early life:...
, Pegg is godfather to close friends
Chris MartinChristopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin is an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the band Coldplay. He is the husband of Hollywood actress Gwenyth Paltrow, with whom he has fathered two children.-Early life:Chris Martin was born...
and
Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress.The daughter of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, Paltrow dropped out of her university to follow an acting career. She began her career in theatre in 1990, and made her film debut the following year...
's daughter, Apple. Pegg's parents and sister briefly appeared in
SpacedSpaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop-culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism...
while his mother alone appeared in both
Shaun of the DeadShaun of the Dead is a 2004 British romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright....
and
Hot FuzzHot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park...
.
He has sectoral
heterochromiaIn anatomy, heterochromia refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin. Heterochromia is a result of the relative excess or lack of melanin...
, where his eyes are blue-grey yet a portion of his right eye is brown. His favorite film is
Raising ArizonaRaising Arizona is a 1987 Coen Brothers comedy film starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand and Randall "Tex" Cobb. Not a blockbuster at the time of its release, it has since achieved the status of a cult film...
. He has stated that his favourite shows are
The X-FilesThe X-Files is an American cult science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. It first aired in September 1993 and ended in May 2002...
and
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Pegg was awarded an honorary
fellowA fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes...
ship by the
University of GloucestershireThe University of Gloucestershire is a university primarily based in Gloucestershire, England, spread over five campuses, three in Cheltenham, one in Gloucester and one campus in London...
on 4 December 2008.
On 18 September 2009 Pegg joined
ColdplayColdplay are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1998. The group comprises Chris Martin , Jonny Buckland , Guy Berryman , and Will Champion .Coldplay's early material was compared to acts such as Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, U2, and Travis...
on stage during their gig at
Wembley StadiumThe original Wembley Stadium was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007.-History:...
, playing
harmonicaThe harmonica is a free reed wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes a reed or multiple reeds to vibrate up and down creating sound...
to the song "
Trouble"Trouble" is a song by English alternative rock band Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson for Coldplay's debut album, Parachutes. The song repeats the word trouble throughout the lyrics, and its musicscape is minimalist.The song was released...
", then shouting "Hello, Wembley!" to the enjoyment of the 80,000+ person crowd.
Television
| Year |
Programme |
Character |
Notes |
| 1995 The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg....
|
Six Pairs of Pants |
Various Characters |
|
| 1996 The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.-Events:...
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AsylumAsylum was a British comedy series shown on Paramount Comedy Channel in 1996. Set in a mental asylum, it ran for one series of six episodes. Unlike traditional sitcoms or comedy television shows, it was to some extent an opportunity for stand-up routines by various comedians, mixed with an overall...
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| Faith in the Future Faith in the Future was a British comedy television show running from 1995-1998. It was a sequel to the show Second Thoughts. It aired on ITV for 22 episodes....
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| 1997 The year 1997 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Star Wars original trilogy's 20th Anniversary Special Editions are released.*Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace....
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I'm Alan Partridge I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan of which two series of six episodes were produced, the first in 1997 and the second in 2002....
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Steve Bennett |
Episode: "Watership Alan" |
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| 1998 The year 1998 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
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Is It Bill Bailey?Is It Bill Bailey? was a stand up / sketch comedy series written by and starring Bill Bailey. One series of six episodes was produced and aired on BBC Two in 1998, and it has never been recommissioned or released on DVD but until then it can availble on many BitTorrent Sites and also Google Video...
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| Big Train Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted...
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| 1999 The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...
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SpacedSpaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop-culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism...
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Tim Bisley |
(1999-2001) Co-written with Jessica Stevenson Jessica Hynes is an English actress and writer. She was known professionally as Jessica Stevenson until 2007....
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| Tube Tales Tube Tales is a collection of nine short films based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers as submitted to Time Out magazine. The stories were scripted and filmed independently of each other...
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| Hippies Hippies was a six-part British television comedy series broadcast from 12 November to 17 December 1999. It was created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, the writing partnership most famous for Father Ted, but the scripts were written by Mathews alone.It starred Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips,...
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| 2000 The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.-Top-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2000...
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)Randall & Hopkirk is a British television series, produced by Working Title Films for BBC One. It is a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk and stars Vic Reeves as Hopkirk and Bob Mortimer as Randall, Emilia Fox as Jeannie, and Tom Baker as Wyvern.- Background :Two series...
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Justin Pope |
Episode: "Paranoia" |
| 2001 The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. -Top-grossing films:...
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Brass Eye Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries. A single series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, with a further special episode in 2001....
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Gerard Chote |
Episode: "Paedophilia Special" |
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First Sergeant William Evans |
Episodes: "Currahee" and "Day of Days" |
| Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible is a British television series, created by Graham Duff, co-written by and starring Steve Coogan. Originally aired on BBC2 in 2001, the programme was designed as an anthology show, in the style of Tales from the Crypt, and lampooned many aspects of the horror genre,...
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Angus |
Episode: "Curse of the Blood of the Lizard of Doom" |
| 2002 The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost...
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Look Around YouLook Around You is a British television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert...
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| Linda Green Linda Green is a British television comedy-drama series that lasted for two seasons, screened in 2001 and 2002. The twenty half-hour episodes were broadcast on BBC One and produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company....
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| 2003 The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
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| 2004 The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
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| Black Books Black Books is a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig. It was written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and produced by Nira Park...
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Evan |
Episode: "Manny Come Home" |
| I Am Not an Animal I Am Not an Animal is an animated comedy series telling the tale of highly intelligent animals rescued from a vivisectionist laboratory and forced to live on their own. The series was made and directed by Peter Baynham. It was produced by Triffic Films and ran on BBC2 in the United Kingdom from May...
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| 2005 The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...
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Handsome Man |
Episode: "Health" |
| Spider-Plant Man Spider-Plant Man is a parody of Spider-Man, made for the Comic Relief 2005 appeal and aired on BBC One on March 11, 2005. It featured Rowan Atkinson as Peter Piper/Spider-Plant Man and Rachel Stevens as his love-interest Jane-Mary...
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Frank Matters |
Comic Relief Comic Relief is a British charity organisation which was founded in the United Kingdom in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis in response to famine in Ethiopia. It was launched live on Noel Edmonds's Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC1, on Christmas Day 1985 from a refugee camp in Sudan...
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Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...
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The Editor |
Episode: "The Long Game"The Long Game" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on May 7, 2005. This episode is the final appearance of Bruno Langley as Adam Mitchell.-Synopsis:...
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Doctor Who ConfidentialDoctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode is broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly...
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| 2008 The year 2008 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...
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The Sunday Night Project The Sunday Night Project is a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired on Channel 4 in February 2005 under the title The Friday Night Project...
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Episode: Series 8, Episode 2 |
| 2009 The year 2009 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top-grossing films:...
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Robot ChickenRobot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-Head Writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root...
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Paul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE , is an English singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and film producer, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings, McCartney is the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music...
, George HarrisonGeorge Harrison MBE was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as...
, Ringo StarrRichard Starkey, MBE , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the rock group The Beatles. When The Beatles formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes....
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| 1999 The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...
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Guest House Paradiso Guest House Paradiso is a 1999 comedy slapstick film, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and directed by Edmondson. It is based on their comedy television series Bottom...
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The Parole Officer The Parole Officer is a 2001 film, directed by John Duigan and starring Steve Coogan.-Plot:Simon Garden is a well-meaning but ineffectual probation officer. At the beginning of the film, he is facing a tribunal after his entire department in Blackpool submit complaints against him, Garden having...
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| 2002 The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost...
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24 Hour Party People24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom....
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Shaun of the Dead Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright....
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Co-written with Edgar WrightEdgar Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and TV series Spaced.-Biography:...
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| 2005 The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse is a film spin-off from the popular British television comedy series The League of Gentlemen. Starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, the film was written by the cast with Jeremy Dyson, and directed by Steve Bendelack...
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| Land of the Dead Land of the Dead is a horror film by director George A. Romero, the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead...
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| 2006 The year 2006 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...
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Mission: Impossible III Mission: Impossible III a 2006 action film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt....
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Big NothingBig Nothing is a black comedy/neo-noir film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. It was released in December 2006, and had its premiere at Cardiff Film Festival in November 2006....
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| Free Jimmy Free Jimmy is a Norwegian/British computer animated feature film first released in Norwegian language in 2006, and later in English language in 2008. The film was written and directed by acclaimed Norwegian subculture comic book artist Christopher Nielsen...
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| 2007 The year 2007 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...
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Cannibal |
Segment: "Don't" |
| The Good Night The Good Night, a romantic comedy, is the first movie written and directed by Jake Paltrow. The film stars his sister Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg and others...
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Hot FuzzHot Fuzz is a 2007 British action comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced. The film was directed by Wright and produced by Nira Park...
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Run Fatboy RunRun Fatboy Run is a 2007 British romantic comedy film directed by David Schwimmer, written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg, and starring Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Harish Patel, India de Beaufort and Hank Azaria...
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Dennis Doyle |
Co-written with Michael Ian BlackMichael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer and director. He has starred in several TV comedy series, including The State, Viva Variety, Stella, and currently Michael & Michael Have Issues.-Early life:Black was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jill, a store owner, and Robert...
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| Diary of the Dead Diary of the Dead, also known as George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, is a 2007 American horror film by George A. Romero. Although independently produced, it was distributed theatrically by Dimension Films and was released in cinemas on February 15, 2008 and on DVD by The Weinstein Company and...
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a 2008 comedy film based upon British writer Toby Young's 2001 memoir of the same name. The film follows a similar storyline, about his five year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Sharps Magazine...
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| 2009 The year 2009 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top-grossing films:...
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Montgomery "Scotty" ScottMontgomery Scott is a character in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by James Doohan in the original Star Trek series, Scotty also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", and in numerous books, comics, and...
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Ice Age: Dawn of the DinosaursIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also known as Ice Age 3, is a 3-D computer animated film. It is the third and final installment of the Ice Age series, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. A sneak preview was shown in selected theaters on Father's Day in the United...
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| Burke and Hare Burke and Hare is a film by John Landis starring Simon Pegg as William Burke . David Tennant will reportedly also star.It will be filmed on location in Edinburgh, London and at Ealing Studios.- Premise :...
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| 2010 The year 2010 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-2010:...
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Paul Paul is an upcoming 2010 comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.-Plot Summary:Two British comic book geeks go on a road trip through America...
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Filming, Co-writing with Nick Frost Nicholas John Frost is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the role of Mike Watt in the comedy Spaced, Ed in Shaun of the Dead, as well as PC Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz.-Early life:Frost was born in Dagenham in London...
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| The World's End The World's End is a pub in Camden High Street in Camden Town, London, England just south of Camden Town tube station. It is a long established business, formerly known as Mother Red Cap or Mother Damnable's....
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The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn |
ThomsonThomson and Thompson are a pair of detectives in Hergé's classic European comic graphic-novel series The Adventures of Tintin. It is unclear whether the two are related: they have different names and are never referred to as twins or brothers in the original language version of the series...
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The Rise and Fall of the Real RocknRolla |
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