Matt King

Matt King (born 31 January 1968) is an English actor, writer of BBC sitcom Whites and comedian. He is known for his role as self-absorbed musician Super Hans in the Bafta-winning British sitcom Peep Show. He has played many characters, including Elton John and Terry Venables, in the Bafta-nominated comedy series Star Stories, and starred in his own self-penned sketch show Dogface, also on Channel 4. He has appeared in cult comedy series Look Around You. King stars in the Australian TV series Spirited, playing the role of Henry Mallet. As a stand-up comedian he has appeared at the Edinburgh festival and at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One of his shows was disrupted by the fact that he had a devastating car crash immediately before the show started, but the show went on. He co-starred in the movie Inkheart, co-stars in the Guy Ritchie film Rocknrolla, the British film Bronson, and has a lead role in fantasy thriller Malice in Wonderland. He has also appeared in the third series of Doctor Who as Peter Streete in The Shakespeare Code and was a regular character in the hit BBC production Jekyll playing computer expert Freeman. He played a ticket tout in the acclaimed independent short film "Brussels" by Misha Manson-Smith. In 2010 he appeared in London Boulevard alongside Colin Farrell, Keira Knightly and Ray Winston. He plays driver and bodyguard to Winston's character, Rob Gant. He appears in the third series of Skins, playing Cook's father. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt King, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Time Bandits

Eleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.

Release Date:2024-07-23

Character:De Plume

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:91

Dolittle

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

Release Date:2020-01-02

Character:Clyde

Vote Count:3668

Juliet, Naked

Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

Release Date:2018-08-16

Character:Mark

Vote Count:488

CHRIS P.Duck

Release Date:2018-03-02

Character:Roger

Episode Count:5

The End of the F***ing World

James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

Release Date:2017-10-24

Character:DC Eddie Onslow

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3237

Strike

A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex crimes that have baffled the police. Based on the bestselling novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Release Date:2017-08-27

Character:Jeff Whittaker

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:198

In the Dark

DI Helen Weeks grapples with pregnancy as she undertakes a very personal abduction case.

Release Date:2017-07-11

Character:Phil Hendricks

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:47

Ibiza Undead

Three best friends - Alex, Az and Jim - head to Ibiza for their first lad's holiday. Unfortunately, tagging along is Alex's unimpressed ex-girlfriend Ellie. Arriving on the island, the lads dump Ellie with Alex's sister Liz, and her friend Zara, and head to San Antonio to start their week of sun, sea and debauchery. Soon they end up in a club, run by local gangster Karl, where the attractions aren't all alive - they're zombies! Due to Jim's drunken antics the zombies escape, and soon all hell breaks loose and no one on the party island is safe.

Release Date:2016-08-26

Character:Karl

Vote Count:27

Get Santa

A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.

Release Date:2014-12-05

Character:Brian

Vote Count:132

Paddington

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.

Release Date:2014-11-24

Character:Andre the Thief

Vote Count:3808

The Waldgeist & Me

A dark tale of love and dismemberment.

Release Date:2014-07-24

Character:Narrator (voice)

Rick and Morty

Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty's already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.

Release Date:2013-12-02

Character:Knight of the Sun (voice)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:9979

Strange Hill High

Mitchell, Becky, and Templeton set out to discover their school's many mysteries and secrets, along the way encountering monsters, paradoxes, and timely winery nonsense as they try to avoid the headmaster and Mitchell's worst enemy, Mr. Abercrombie.

Release Date:2013-05-08

Character:Mr. Creeper (voice)

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:4

Starlings

Starlings is a British comedy-drama written by Steve Edge and Matt King who also play the roles of Fergie and Uncle Loz. It is one of the few new television comedy series that has been commissioned and aired on Sky1.

Release Date:2012-05-13

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:1

Death in Paradise

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.

Release Date:2011-10-25

Character:Terry Minto

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:262

London Boulevard

A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.

Release Date:2010-11-10

Character:Fletcher

Vote Count:751

Made in Dagenham

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Release Date:2010-10-01

Character:Trevor Innes

Vote Count:305

Whites

Comedy series set in the kitchen of a country house hotel, following the trials and tribulations of head chef Roland White and his long suffering sous chef Bib.

Release Date:2010-09-28

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:38

Spirited

Spirited is a romantic look at life and love after death with a rock 'n' roll twist. Uptight dentist Suzy Darling leaves her egotistical husband Steve and moves into a penthouse to start a new life with her children. Seemingly a well orchestrated plan, she quickly discovers that she has to share her penthouse with Henry, who is no ordinary man. Henry is apparently a ghost. Henry awakens form 20 years of deathly slumber when Suzy and her kids move into the apartment. He's a British Rock Star and struggles to understand what is happening to him... or even who he is.

Release Date:2010-08-25

Character:Henry Mallet

Episode Count:18

Vote Count:12

Malice in Wonderland

A modern take on the classic fairytale, Alice in Wonderland, set in South East England.An American law student in London. Knocked down by a black cab, she wakes with amnesia in a world that's a million miles from home - Wonderland. We follow her adventures as she's dragged through an underworld filled with twisted individuals and the lowest low-lifers, by the enigmatic cab driver, Whitey. She needs to find out who she is, where she's from and use what wits she has left to get back home in one piece. As her journey progresses she discovers nothing is what it seems, realizes that fate and life are terminally entwined, and finds true love lurking in the unlikeliest place.

Release Date:2010-02-05

Character:Gonzo

Vote Count:65

Chickenfoot - Get Your Buzz On

Shot in HD with 16 cameras over 3 Sold-Out shows, "Chickenfoot Get Your Buzz On" offers the viewer a Once-In-A-Lifetime chance to see 4 Rock and Roll Legends share the stage and blow the fans away with their combined inordinate talents to one collective whole. The band, formed in 2008 consists of Sammy Hagar (Van Halen and Montrose), Michael Anthony (Van Halen), Chad Smith (The Red Hot Chilli Peppers) and Guitar Hero Joe Satriani. Shot the Summer of 2009, the shows are captured in crystal clear High Definition.

Release Date:2010-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

Star Runners

Two space smugglers are caught by the government and told if they deliver a crate to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the crate is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.

Release Date:2009-06-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:29

Bronson

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

Release Date:2009-03-13

Character:Paul Daniels

Vote Count:2489

Inkheart

The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.

Release Date:2008-12-11

Character:Cockerell

Vote Count:2118

RocknRolla

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

Release Date:2008-09-04

Character:Cookie

Vote Count:3001

Tripping Over

Tripping Over is a British/Australian six-part drama series. Its first episode aired on Network Ten in Australia on 25 October 2006, and in the United Kingdom on Five on 30 October 2006. In the UK Tripping Over is repeated on Five Life. The show is about three friends in London and two friends in Sydney, neither group knows each other but their parents do. They both take flights to each other's countries, and the two groups meet at the stop-over in Bangkok, where a tragic event changes their lives. The series then follows the two groups of friends as they continue on their trips to each other's countries and back home. The programme focuses on the major life changes that occur during the mid-twenties, and how choices made here can affect a person's life for many years to come.

Release Date:2006-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

The IT Crowd

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.

Release Date:2006-02-03

Character:Raymond Peterfellow

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1395

Doctor Who

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Release Date:2005-03-26

Character:Peter Streete

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3070

Peep Show

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

Release Date:2003-09-19

Character:Super Hans

Episode Count:54

Vote Count:379

Look Around You

LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?

Release Date:2002-10-10

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:30

The Craic

When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.

Release Date:1999-04-29

Character:English Guy

Vote Count:8