Patrick Marber

The Critic

Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.

Release Date: 2024-09-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 62

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.

Release Date: 2022-11-21

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.

Release Date: 2022-01-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

A Very English Scandal

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

Release Date: 2018-05-20

Character: Peter Taylor QC

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 156

Trust

The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.

Release Date: 2018-03-25

Character: Lord Jefferies

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 78

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?

Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.

Release Date: 2017-12-27

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 5

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.

Release Date: 2017-03-09

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 4

Only Connect

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.

Release Date: 2008-09-15

Character: Self - Contestant

Vote Count: 12

Love You More

Two teenagers are drawn together by the Buzzcocks' single 'Love You More' during the summer of 1978.

Release Date: 2008-02-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 14

Notes on a Scandal

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Release Date: 2006-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 916

Asylum

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Release Date: 2005-09-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 111

Closer

A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

Release Date: 2004-12-03

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 3527

Kulturplatz

Release Date: 2004-09-01

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Old Street

A man named Ken enters an almost empty underground car park at night. He gets into his van and drives up to the barrier, inserting his ticket into the pay and display machine. Having no response, he kicks it, making the lights go off. He pushes the help button, and a strange voice starts tormenting him for what a bad person he actually is.

Release Date: 2004-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Mission: Impossible II

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

Release Date: 2000-05-24

Character: Train Driver (uncredited)

Vote Count: 6954

Coogan's Run

Coogan's Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. It was written by various people including Coogan, Patrick Marber, David Tyler, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Geoffrey Perkins and Henry Normal. The series consists of six self-contained stories, although Coogan's characters from the other episodes in the series make occasional cameo appearances.

Release Date: 1995-11-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: 

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 5

After Miss Julie

An updated version of Strindberg’s play examining class and social differences. Julie, the daughter of an MP, seduces her father's chauffeur, despite his being engaged to the maid.

Release Date: 1995-11-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Kulturzeit

Release Date: 1995-10-02

Character: self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Pauline Calf's Wedding Video

Spoof video diary. Steve Coogan takes on the roles of downtrodden Paul and the vivacious blonde Pauline Calf, who finally gets herself up the aisle with the man of her dreams. Even a punch-up in the toilet can't spoil her special day.

Release Date: 1994-12-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Roland/Spiros

Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge

Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge is a BBC Television series of six episodes, and a Christmas special in 1995. It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA, which was used as the show's title music. Steve Coogan played the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based host, Alan Partridge. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On the Hour. Knowing Me Knowing You was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber, with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front and David Schneider, who played Alan's weekly guests. Steve Brown provided the show's music and arrangements, and also appeared as Glen Ponder, the man in charge of the house band. The show was a parody of a chat show. It featured a live audience whose laughter meant that viewers could not mistake the show for a real chat show. Alan went on to appear in two series of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, following his life after both his marriage and TV career come to an end.

Release Date: 1994-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Keith Hunt

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 63

The Day Today

A spoof of the British news - including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On The Hour'.

Release Date: 1994-01-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 59

Steve Coogan: Live 'n' Lewd

Recorded at Liverpool's Neptune theatre. Coogan appears as Paul and Pauline Calf, Duncan Thickett and Ernest Moss, alongside support from John Thomson's Bernard Right On

Release Date: 1994-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Paul Calf's Video Diary

Lager lout and philosopher Paul Calf records his video diary over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Accompanied by his friends Fat Bob and Roland and his sister Pauline, he staggers through two days of drinking, fighting and failed sex, in desperate pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, Julie.

Release Date: 1993-12-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Roland

Vote Count: 1

What Happens At Night

A dream-like story of a married American couple who travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby.

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Friday Night Live

Release Date: 1988-02-19

Episode Count: 1

The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

Release Date: 1978-01-14

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 7