Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, writer and actor. He was known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s.
Known For
Movies
- An American Werewolf in...
1981
- Oh Marbella!
2003
- Drop Dead Fred
1991
- Guest House Paradiso
1999
- Whoops Apocalypse
1986
- Couples and Robbers
1981
- Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
- Kevin Turvey Investigat...
1989
- Bottom Live 3: Hooligan...
1997
- Bottom Live 2003: Weapo...
2003
- Me & My Goldfish
2008
- Shock Treatment
1981
- Bottom Live 2001: An Ar...
2001
- Valiant
2005
- Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
- The Princess and the Go...
1991
- Bottom Live 2: The Big ...
1995
- Jesus Christ Superstar
2000
- Bottom Live: The Stage ...
1993
- Carry On Columbus
1992
- The Dangerous Brothers ...
2008
- Merlin: The Return
2000
- The Willows in Winter
1996
- The Wind in the Willows
1995
- Dangerous Brothers Pres...
1986
- Errors of the Human Body
2012
- Little Noises
1992
- ABBA - The Last Video
2004
- Out Of My Head
1995
- Roald Dahl's Most Marve...
2016
- The Itch of the Golden ...
2011
- Remember Me?
1997
- Don't Fear Death
2013
- Chaos and Cadavers
2003
- Summer School
1983
- Four Men in a Car
1998
- War
1983
- Four Men in a Plane
2000
- The Beat Generation
1983
- Dirty Movie
1984
- Gino: Full Story and Pi...
1984
- Consuela (or, The New M...
1986
- Private Enterprise
1986
- Red Nose of Courage
1992
- Five Go to Rehab
2012
- Jellikins: Christmas Sp...
2000
- 30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
- The Canterville Ghost
1997
- Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999
- De ontsnapping
2015
- One by One
2015
- Sex Actually
2005
- Eat the Rich
1987
- Churchill: The Hollywoo...
2004
- Rik Mayall Presents: Da...
1993
- Bottom: Exposed
2024
- The Thief and the Cobbl...
1993
- Jake's Journey
1988
- Kevin Turvey: The Man B...
1982
- The Hunt for Tony Blair
2011
- The Comic Strip
1981
- Day of the Sirens
2002
- Sindy The Fairy Princess
2006
- Rik Mayall Presents: Mi...
1993
- Rik Mayall Presents: Br...
1993
- Eldorado
2012
- The Strike
1988
- The Orchard End Murder
1981
- Blanche Neige, la suite
2007
- The Making of 'Guest Ho...
1999
- More Bad News
1988
- Bad News
1983
- Rik Mayall: Lord of Mis...
2014
- GLC: The Carnage Contin...
1990
- Completely Bad News
2019
- Horse Opera
1993
- Rik Mayall Presents: Th...
1995
- Rik Mayall Presents: Cl...
1995
- Rik Mayall Presents: Di...
1995
- Bring Me the Head of Ma...
1997
- Big Bottom Live - The B...
1999
- Bottom Fluff
1996
- How The Young Ones Chan...
2018
- The Snow Queen
1995
- Blackadder Rides Again
2008
- The Best of Cannon & Ba...
1985
- Just for the Record
2010
- Blackadder's Most Cunni...
2008
- Kevin of the North
2001
- Eye of the Needle
1981
- A Fistful of Travellers...
1984
- Jellikins: Christmas Sp...
2000
- Employees From Hell
1989
- The Rocky Horror Treatm...
1981
- The Making of 'The Youn...
2007
- Northern Lights
1982
- Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
TV Shows
- Believe Nothing
2002
- Shoebox Zoo
2004
- King Arthur's Disasters
2005
- The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
- Bottom
1991
- The Young Ones
1982
- Wolcott
1981
- The Knock
1994
- The New Statesman
1987
- Omnibus Presents Comic ...
1986
- Wood and Walters
1982
- How to be a Little Sod
1995
- Grim Tales
1989
- Rik Mayall Presents
1993
- A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
- All About George
2005
- Look at the State We're...
1995
- The Cannon & Ball Show
1979
- Man Down
2013
- In the Red
1998
- Blackadder
1983
- Blackadder
1983
- Murder Rooms: Mysteries...
2001
- Happy Families
1985
- Hardwicke House
1987
- Wogan
1982
- Boom Boom... Out Go the...
1980
- Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
- Midsomer Murders
1997
- Saturday Live
1986
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- The Dangerous Brothers
1986
- Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
- French & Saunders
1987
- The Comic Strip Present...
1982
- Watership Down
1999