Daniel Rigby
Birthday: Born in 1982-12-06 in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Daniel Rigby (born December 6, 1982) is an English actor and comedian. He received a BAFTA TV Award for his leading role as Eric Morecambe in the 2011 BBC television film Eric and Ernie.
TV Credits
Tom Jones
Character: Benjamin Partridge
A reimagining of Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling," the tale of an illegitimate young man's love for an heiress and his attempts to find a place in the world....
Undercover
Character: Chris
Family. It can be the most important thing in the world. And it can also be a massive pain in the arse. Undercover is a high stakes action comedy about Chris, a lonely, over analysing neurotic traffic police officer who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth when he infiltrates an Armenian crime family....
Landscapers
Character: DCI Tony Collier
A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham....
Flowers
Character: Donald Flowers
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children....
Watership Down
Character: Dandelion (voice)
Fleeing their doomed warren, a group of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home....
The Witchfinder
Character: Hebble
A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever....
Lilies
Character: Billy
Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the brink of change." Due to lower than expected ratings, the BBC did not commission a second series....
Black Mirror
Character: Jamie Salter
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence....
From There to Here
Character: Charlie
From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have....
Ideal
Character: Hugh
Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances....
Sick Note
Character: Officer Hayward
When Daniel Glass is misdiagnosed with a fatal disease he begins to notice how everyone around him treats him better. But then he finds out he was misdiagnosed by the most incompetent oncologist on Earth and now he has a big decision to make: come clean and go back to his old rubbish life, or keep pretending to be ill....
Teletubbies
Character: Narrator (voice)
Welcome to Teletubbyland! Join in the fun with Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laalaa and Po as they learn lots of new, exciting things about the real world. Perfect for curious little minds!...
The Big Hospital Experiment
Character: Himself - Narrator
Fourteen young people are put to work on the wards at the Royal Derby Hospital....
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Canon Prescott
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over....
Big School
Character: Mr Martin
A comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive whiteboards set in an urban secondary school. Chemistry teacher Mr. Church is hopelessly in love with the school's new French teacher, who in turn is being chased by a lothario gym teacher....
Movie Credits
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Character: Bendigo
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever....
Eric & Ernie
Character: Eric Morecambe
Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series R...
Stand Up
Character: John J Jones
A button-pushing comedian performs before an increasingly agitated crowd—until his body rebels against him and reveals the dark truth behind his one-liners....
That Day We Sang
Character: Mr Kirkby
TV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When middle aged loners Tubby and Enid attend a reunion of the choir in which they sang as children, the music evokes powerful memories, leading them to realise they still have a chance to find happiness....
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
Character: Jester
Hansel and Gretel have fled the gingerbread house, but what if the wicked witch survived after all?...
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
Character: Alan Dangle
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-u...
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
Character: Sir Andrew Aguecheek
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible....
Careful How You Go
Character:
A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty....
Sump
Character: PC Clarke
When Sally's husband is trapped in an underground cave during a diving accident she finds herself trapped in the company of a talkative constable and an unwelcome guest....
Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After
Character: Baker
David Walliams has co-created a brand new retelling of a classic fairytale, starring as the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk: Ever After. In Walliams’ version, the Giant didn’t die after falling off the beanstalk, but escaped with a concussion and no way back to his home. Stuck in a human village, he’s forced to seek help from the unlikeliest of sources – all the while attempting to outsmart the villagers....