Rory McGrath

Rory McGrath

Born: March 17, 1956
in Cornwall, England, UK
Patrick Rory McGrath (born 17 March 1956), known as Rory McGrath, is a British comedian, television personality, and writer. He came to prominence in the comedy show Who Dares Wins and was for many years a team captain on the gameshow They Think It's All Over. He acted in the sitcom Chelmsford 123 and appeared in the ITV reality show Sugar Free Farm.

Movies for Rory McGrath...

Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
Title: Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
Character: Self
Released: December 24, 2013
Type: Movie
A tribute to British comedian Mel Smith, who died in July 2013, aged 60, featuring home video footage, rare archive material and many classic sketches. Far more than a comic actor, Smith also wrote and edited a host of celebrated TV comedies in the 1980s and 90s. He was a theatre and film director, and as a TV producer he was responsible for several innovative comedy series. Friends and colleagues, including Griff Rhys Jones, John Lloyd and Richard Curtis, talk about Smith's talents, both in front of- and behind the camera. The programme also traces his time at Oxford and, before that, Latymer Upper School, where Smith's talents were first spotted.
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Title: Rory McGrath's Pub Dig
Released: April 3, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: TV
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
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Title: Monte Carlo or Bust
Released: October 28, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Rory and Paddy's Even Greater British Adventure
Released: September 20, 2010
Type: TV
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Huge
Title: Huge
Character: Himself
Released: June 18, 2010
Type: Movie
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
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Three Men in More Than One Boat
Title: Three Men in More Than One Boat
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
In their third trip, the trio attempt to get from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly using several boats.
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Title: Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones On Anger
Character: Himself
Released: September 23, 2008
Type: TV
Griff Rhys Jones takes a startlingly honest look at anger in himself and others
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Title: Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure
Released: August 13, 2008
Type: TV
Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure was a television documentary series presented by comedians Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness. The series was broadcast on Five between 13 August and 3 September 2008. The series followed McGrath and McGuinness travelling around Great Britain, taking part in, "strange but quintessentially British sporting events". Examples of sports that appeared in the series include cheese rolling, pie eating, bog snorkelling, Eton Fives and Egg Throwing. A second series, Rory and Paddy's Even Greater British Adventure, began on 20 September 2010 and ended on 18 October 2010.
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Title: Commercial Breakdown
Released: June 15, 2008
Type: TV
Commercial breakdown is a BBC/Celador light entertainment television programme which shows humorous television advertisements from around the world.
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Title: What the Dickens?
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 2008
Type: TV
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.
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Three Men In Another Boat
Title: Three Men In Another Boat
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain and Rory McGrath reunite for a follow-up journey, this time on board Griff's classic yacht. The trio endeavor to sail from Tower Bridge to the Isle of Wight, followed by participation in a yacht race, with Griff teaching Dara and Rory how to sail.
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Title: Saving Planet Earth UK
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: July 4, 2007
Type: TV
A look at endangered species in the regions around the UK
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Three Men in a Boat
Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: Himself
Released: January 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath, Dara O'Briain and Loli the dog set out from Kingston to Oxford across the Thames in a wooden skiff, attempting to re-trace the journey of Jerome K. Jerome in his classic 1889 book "Three Men in a Boat" and having some adventures of their own along the way, including entering a race after rowing into the middle of the Wallingford Regatta.
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Title: Three Men in a Boat
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2006
Type: TV
Three Men in a Boat is a television comedy/documentary series produced by Liberty Bell Productions for BBC Two starring Dara Ó Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, first shown on 3 January 2006. In this first rendition, the three participants rowed in a replica wooden skiff from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford. The BBC subsequently commissioned and aired Three Men in Another Boat, Three Men in More Than One Boat, Three Men go to Ireland, Three Men go to Scotland; Three Men go to Venice, and Three Men go to New England, broadcast in 2008, 2009, 2009/2010, 2010 and 2011 respectively. Every series, bar the first, has featured the music from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In late October 2011, a production team was shooting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, America's oldest art colony, at the tip of Cape Cod.
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The Very Best of They Think It's All Over
Title: The Very Best of They Think It's All Over
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 2005
Type: Movie
Celebrating its tenth year on the screen this hilarious compilation of the very best of the show features regulars David Gower, Gary Linekar, Rory McGrath, Lee Hurst, his replacement Jonathan Ross and hapless quiz master Nick Hancock. Of course that doesn’t include a decades worth of top sports and TV stars both on the teams and taking part in the infamous “feel the sportsman” round. More laddish and less staid than A Question Of Sport this really is the very best of They Think It’s All Over.
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Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
Title: Sex, Secrets and Frankie Howerd
Character: Self
Released: April 4, 2004
Type: Movie
A frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.
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Title: Bloody Britain
Character: Presenter
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
Bloody Britain is a British history documentary, presented by TV comedian Rory McGrath and produced by Sophie Theunissen for the Discovery Channel. The series looks into Britain's more gruesome past, such as public executions and bloody battles. The show uses computer animation to create a more realistic and in depth program.
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Title: Grumpy Old Men
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: TV
Series giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.
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Title: QI
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: TV
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
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Title: Industrial Revelations
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: TV
Industrial Revelations is a Documentary show showing the connections between related industrial advances. The show's presenter has changed several times since the first series in 2002 hosted by Mark Williams.
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Title: The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Released: January 2, 2000
Type: TV
Comedic British History
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Title: They Think It's All Over
Released: September 14, 1995
Type: TV
They Think It's All Over is a British comedy panel game with a sporting theme produced by Talkback and shown on BBC One. The show's name is taken from Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous 1966 World Cup commentary quotation, "they think it's all over...it is now!" and the show used the phrase as the last line of every programme. In 2006 the show was axed after 11 years of being on-air.
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Title: The Detectives
Character: Tom Reid
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
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Title: Have I Got News for You
Character: Himself
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Trivial Pursuit
Character: Host
Released: September 4, 1990
Type: TV
Trivial Pursuit was a game show loosely based on the board game of the same name. The show first aired on BBC1 from 4 September to 18 December 1990 hosted by Rory McGrath.
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Title: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Character: Himself
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: TV
An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.
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Title: Chelmsford 123
Released: March 9, 1988
Type: TV
Chelmsford 123 is a British television situation comedy produced for Channel 4 by Hat Trick Productions. It ran for two series, of six and seven episodes, in 1988 and 1990. The series was set in the British town of Chelmsford in the year AD 123, and concerned the power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus and the British chieftain, Badvoc. Britain is a miserable place, cold and wet – just the place to exile Aulus for accidentally insulting the Emperor's horse, but also give him something useful to do. Aulus, probably a play on Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Roman Britain between 122 and 125, was a rather delicate Roman, who was usually outwitted by the scheming Badvoc, who hadn't had a haircut for twenty-five years. Many of the other regular "Hat Trick" actors, previously seen in shows such as Who Dares Wins, also appeared. Both series are now available on 4 on Demand and SeeSaw. Series 1 and 2 was released on DVD by Acorn Media UK on 15 September 2011.
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Title: Countdown
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.