Alan Davies

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Biography

Alan is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He played the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek (1997-2016), and has been the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since its premiere in 2003.

Davies began performing comedy in 1988 at the Whitstable Labour Club. In 1991, he was named Time Out’s Best Young Comic. He continued touring and performing in the UK and Australia, winning the Edinburgh Festival Critics Award for Comedy in 1994. That show was released on video and audio cassette in 1995 as Alan Davies Live at the Lyric recorded at the Lyric Theatre as part of the Perrier Pick of the Fringe season in 1994.

A version of his show Urban Trauma, which ran in the West End at the Duchess Theatre and toured the UK and Australia, was shown on BBC One in 1998.In 1994 and 1995, Davies hosted Alan’s Big One for three series on Radio 1 before appearing in Channel 4’s spoof travel show One for the Road.

Davies co-wrote and starred in his own radio sitcom, The Alan Davies Show, in 1998. He played Russell Boyd in the BBC comedy A Many Splintered Thing, also in 1998 and 2000.

In 2001 Davies played Robert Gossage in Bob and Rose, a comedy drama about a gay man falling for a woman. He won the Best Actor award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for his performance. He also played Jack the dog in the radio sitcom About a Dog.

Davies took on a less comedic role in 2004, starring as Henry Farmer, a maverick barrister, in ITV Sunday night drama The Brief, for two series. Subsequent drama roles include Superintendent Mallard in Agatha Christie’s Marple (ITV, 2008), as well as appearances in The Good Housekeeping Guide (BBC One, 2006), Roman Road (ITV 2004) and Hotel Babylon (BBC One, 2008).

In 2010 he appeared in ‘Your Sudden Death Question’, an episode of the ITV detective series Lewis, as Marcus Richard, a scamming quizmaster at a competition held in an Oxford college, at which some of the contestants are murdered. The same year, he appeared in a three-part documentary series, Alan Davies’ Teenage Revolution (Channel 4), partly based on his autobiographical book My Favourite People and Me, 1978–88.

In 2011 Davies was one of the judges on the ITV programme Show Me The Funny, a talent contest for new and aspiring stand-up comedy performers.

In 2012 he made his first appearance on Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz series, winning The Big Fat Quiz of the ‘90s alongside Phill Jupitus.

In 2014 he presented a chat show Alan Davies Après-Ski on BBC Two, which looked at some of the highlights of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. He also co-hosted the Brazilian Banter podcast for ITV, which was a satirical look at the 2014 FIFA World Cup hosted by Brazil.

Since 2014, he has hosted The Dog Rescuers for Channel 5 and the chat show Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled for Dave.

[Source: Wikipedia, 29/06/2021.]