Matt King

Matt King

Born: January 31, 1968
in Watford, England, UK
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.

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Movies for Matt King...

Dolittle
Title: Dolittle
Character: Clyde
Released: January 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Juliet, Naked
Title: Juliet, Naked
Character: Mark
Released: August 16, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: CHRIS P.Duck
Character: Roger
Released: March 2, 2018
Type: TV
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Ibiza Undead
Title: Ibiza Undead
Character: Karl
Released: November 2, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The End of the F***ing World
Character: DC Eddie Onslow
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: TV
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.
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The End of the F***ing World
Title: The End of the F***ing World
Character: DC Eddie Onslow
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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 road trip in search of her real father.
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Title: Strike
Character: Jeff Whittaker
Released: August 27, 2017
Type: TV
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.
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Title: In the Dark
Character: Phil Hendricks
Released: July 11, 2017
Type: TV
DI Helen Weeks grapples with pregnancy as she undertakes a very personal abduction case.
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Get Santa
Title: Get Santa
Character: Brian
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Paddington
Title: Paddington
Character: Andre the Thief
Released: November 24, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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The Waldgeist & Me
Title: The Waldgeist & Me
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 24, 2014
Type: Movie
A dark tale of love and dismemberment.
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Title: Rick and Morty
Character: Knight of the Sun (voice)
Released: December 2, 2013
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Strange Hill High
Character: Mr. Creeper (voice)
Released: May 8, 2013
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Starlings
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Terry Minto
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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London Boulevard
Title: London Boulevard
Character: Fletcher
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
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Made in Dagenham
Title: Made in Dagenham
Character: Trevor Innes
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Title: Spirited
Character: Henry Mallet
Released: August 25, 2010
Type: TV
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.
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Malice in Wonderland
Title: Malice in Wonderland
Character: Gonzo
Released: February 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Inkheart
Title: Inkheart
Character: Cockerell
Released: December 11, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Bronson
Title: Bronson
Character: Paul Daniels
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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RocknRolla
Title: RocknRolla
Character: Cookie
Released: September 4, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The IT Crowd
Character: Raymond Peterfellow
Released: February 3, 2006
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Peter Streete
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Peep Show
Character: Super Hans
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Look Around You
Released: October 10, 2002
Type: TV
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?
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The Craic
Title: The Craic
Character: English Guy
Released: April 29, 1999
Type: Movie
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.