Rowan
Atkinson was born on
6th January 1955 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in England. He is best known
as comic character Mr. Bean.
He became famous in the British
television series Blackadder,
and a big star in the series
Mr. Bean. In 1997 a
film version of Mr. Bean was
an international hit.
He started his comedy career
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
in 1977. At Oxford he also acted
and performed sketches for the
Oxford University Dramatic Society
(OUDS) and the Experimental
Theatre Club (ETC). There he
met writer Richard Curtis
and composer Howard
Goodall, with whom
he would continue to collaborate
during his career.
Atkinson's talent for visual
comedy has seen him described
as "the man with
the rubber face"
(1).
In 1978 he acted in Not
the Nine O'Clock News,
which also starred Pamela
Stephenson, Griff
Rhys Jones and Mel
Smith.
In 1983 he co-wrote the medieval
sitcom The Black Adder
(2) with
Richard Curtis. It bacame one
of the most successful BBC situation
comedies of the 1980s.
At the cinema Rowan Atkinson
acted in Johnny English
: it was the 7th hit in the
British cinema industry.
He performed Scooby-Doo
by Raja Gosnell, Never
Say Never Again (1983)
by Irvin Kershner, The
Witches (1990) by Nicolas
Roeg and The Appointments
Of Dennis Jennings
that won the 1989 Oscar for
best short film (1).
He also acted in Hot
Shots II by Jim Abrahams,
and in 1994 Four Weddings
and a Funeral (2)
as Father Gerald by Mike Newell.
In The Lion King
he was Zazu and acted in Rat
Race by Jerry Zucker.
In 1997He performed and co-produced
Bean by Mel
Smith.
In
2002 he created and produced
the animated series Mr.
Bean a Tiger
Aspect production
broadcast in Great Britain.
In 2003 he was Rufus in Love
Actually by Richard
Curtis.
Get prepared for French
Bean in cinemas in
2007!
Here' the plot
(3) :
"Mr. Bean travels to the
South of France, and unexpectedly
(4) gets
his video diary entered into
the Cannes Film Festival."
Complete filmography
2007 French Bean Mr. Bean (filming)
2005 Keeping Mum (as Reverend
Walter Goodfellow)
2003 Love Actually (as Rufus)
- Johnny English
2002 Scooby-Doo (as Emile Mondavarious)
2001 Rat Race (as Enrico Pollini)
2000 Maybe Baby (as Mr. James)
1998 The Matthew Barnard Show
Movie (as Hugh G. Rection)
1997 Bean
1994 The Lion King (as Zazu
- voice only)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
(as Father Gerald)
1993 Hot Shots! Part Two (as
Dexter Hayman)
1990 The Witches (as Mr. Stringer)
1989 The Tall Guy (as Ron Anderson)
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
(as Dr. Schooner)
1983 Never Say Never Again (as
Nigel Small-Fawcett)
NOTES
(1) short film
: court-métrage
(2) Four Weddings and a Funeral
: Quatre mariages et un enterrement
(3) plot : histoire,
intrigue
(4) unexpectedly
: alors qu'il ne s'y attendait
pas
