Danny Baker (Acting)

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong's legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States.

Release Date:2022-10-27

Character:Self- Voice

Vote Count:23

Meet the Richardsons

Stand-up comedians Richardson and Beaumont play exaggerated versions of themselves as viewers get a glimpse into their home and work lives, surrounded by their celebrity friends and their Hebden Bridge neighbours.

Release Date:2020-02-27

Character:Danny Baker

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

The London Studios: Home of the Stars

The end of an era as the studios where ITV filmed its many shows for 45 years closes its doors for the last time.

Release Date:2018-12-28

Character:Self

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen follow in the footsteps of their favourite British artists.

Release Date:2017-05-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Insert Name Here

Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins.

Release Date:2016-01-04

Character:Self - Panelist

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny

Documentary looking at the career to date of Peter Kay, from Bolton schoolboy to award-winning, record-breaking comic, actor, writer and director.

Release Date:2015-12-24

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Cradle to Grave

It's 1974 and 15 year-old Danny is our guide through the ups and downs of life with the Baker family. With eldest daughter Sharon's wedding looming and the docks facing closure, times are challenging. So too are Danny's attempts to get closer to the opposite sex. A TV show showing the ups and downs of the well known Danny baker and his friends during childhood.

Release Date:2015-09-03

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:10

World Cup Brush Up

Danny Baker mulls over all the attendant hoopla, rigmarole, folderol and palaver that comes with this most mammoth of modern circuses. Mascots! Managers! Fans! Tickets! Endless hours of TV padding! Creepy Kevin Keegan dolls! The tragic death of Pickles the Dog! That sort of thing.

Release Date:2014-06-02

Character:presenter

Duck Quacks Don't Echo

Lee Mack wrangles a team of scientists and celebrity guests to find the truth behind the trivia on this bizarrely educational panel show.

Release Date:2014-02-07

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:9

Inside No. 9

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Release Date:2014-02-05

Character:DJ (voice)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:226

Brushing Up On...

Danny Baker uses archive material to look at aspects of British manufacturing.

Release Date:2013-04-18

Episode Count:1

Danny Baker's Great Album Showdown

Danny Baker is joined by music aficionados to discuss the best albums in rock, pop and R&B

Release Date:2013-02-05

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Peter Kay - In Conversation

One-off chat show programme in which Danny Baker interviews Peter Kay about his phenomenally successful career

Release Date:2012-12-07

Character:Host / Presenter

Making Qi

Behind the scenes documentary on British panel show Qi.

Release Date:2011-09-10

Character:Self

The Jonathan Ross Show

The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2011 and currently airs on Saturday evenings following the conclusion of Ross' BBC One chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in July 2010.

Release Date:2011-09-03

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:21

Would I Lie to You?

A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.

Release Date:2007-06-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:107

Comic Relief Does The Apprentice

Ten celebrities face Alan Sugar in the boardroom as he sets them a tough task in this special edition of The Apprentice to raise money for Comic Relief.

Release Date:2007-03-15

Episode Count:1

Jake on the Box

Documentary film about the musician Jake Thackray

Release Date:2006-10-06

Character:Himself

Danny Baker's Sitcom Showdown

The Sitcom Showdown is a British television quiz show hosted by Danny Baker.

Release Date:2006-04-22

Character:Self

Episode Count:5

Squidbillies

Squidbillies is an animated television series about the Cuylers, an impoverished family of anthropomorphic hillbilly mud squids living in the Appalachian region of Georgia's mountains. The show is produced by Williams Street Studios for the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network and premiered on October 16, 2005. It is written by Dave Willis, co-creator of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Jim Fortier, previously of The Brak Show, both of whom worked on the Adult Swim series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The animation is done by Awesome Incorporated, with background design by Ben Prisk.

Release Date:2005-10-16

Episode Count:85

Vote Count:71

Wimbledon

British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.

Release Date:2004-09-13

Character:Radio London DJ

Vote Count:1008

QI

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

Release Date:2003-09-11

Character:Self

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:250

The Terry and Gaby Show

The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin. The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building through said back door. The show was not well known for the guests who appeared on it, but rather for its many bloopers or double entendres

Release Date:2003-06-02

Episode Count:29

Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive

Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.

Release Date:2002-12-25

Character:Self

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Twelve celebrities are abandoned in the Australian jungle. In order to earn food, they must perform Bushtucker Trials which challenge them physically and mentally.

Release Date:2002-08-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:48

Not Another Eurovision Song Contest

Angus Deayton trawls the archives to re-live the unusual outfits, never-to-be-repeated dance moves and strange songs that make the Eurovision Song Contest an annual peach in the television schedule.

Release Date:2002-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Danny Baker Show

Weekly talk show hosted by Danny Baker featuring guests from the worlds of television, film and sport.

Release Date:1994-09-17

Character:Self

Episode Count:18

Room 101

Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.

Release Date:1994-07-04

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:23

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.

Release Date:1993-12-27

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:21

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and talented performers. In reality, his ambitions tend to outstrip his capabilities.

Release Date:1993-07-12

Character:Chat Show Host

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Danny Bakers Right Hammerings

Comedian Danny Baker takes a look at some of football's worst defeats and most embarrassing moments.

Release Date:1993-07-01

Character:presenter

Own Goals And Gaffs

Danny Baker looks at all the own goals and funny fails of football

Release Date:1992-07-01

Character:Self - Presenter

Gibberish

Gibberish was a celebrity panel game show hosted by Kenny Everett. Two teams of celebrities had to answer questions.

Release Date:1992-03-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:18

Have I Got News for You

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.

Release Date:1990-09-28

Character:Himself

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:65

The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line was the title of an ITV programme broadcast on Thursday evenings at 7.00 pm from November 1988. In the TV Times the show was listed as, "a fast-moving and entertaining consumer show with a difference." The presenters were Emma Freud, Danny Baker, Michael Wilson and Janice Long.

Release Date:1988-11-17

Character:Self

Episode Count:6

An Audience with...

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.

Release Date:1978-01-08

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.

Character:Self - Panellist

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:16