Mark Gatiss

Date of Birth: 17 Oct 1966
Country: UK
Biography: Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen alongside Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock, the latter of which he also co-created.
Total Credits at Criticker: 51 (Actor), 3 (Director), 19 (Writer), 4 (Creator)
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A thriller about a mild-mannered banker (Chaplin) who takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride (Kidman) arranged via the internet. (Miramax Films)
The cheese-loving Wallace and his ever faithful dog Gromit, the much-loved duo from Aardman's Oscar-winning clay-animated shorts star in an all new comedy adventure, marking their first full-length feature film. (DreamWorks)
The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave. (imdb)
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant. (imdb)
A romantic comedy set in the mid-eighties about a working-class kid struggling to make his way in the rarefied world of an upper-class British university, Starter for 10 is a bittersweet tale about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom. (Picturehouse)
The Quatermass Experiment (2005) - TV Movie
A contemporary adaptation of Nigel Kneale's seminal 1953 science fiction serial. (imdb)
A comedic look at the lewd, crude and often-nude adventures of a group of potato sellers from the West Midlands.
A portrait of the singer as he recounts his Montreal childhood, his New York breakthrough, and his subsequent successes worldwide. Openly gay, Rufus provides a frank and revealing look at his life, including his going temporarily blind from drug problems. With comments by his sister and his mother, musicians Elton John, Sting, Neil Tennant ("Pet Shop Boys"), Tom ?? ("Keane"), and showcasing his talents on solo piano as well as with his band, this is a fascinating film. (imdb)
Sense & Sensibility (2008) - TV Mini-Series
Sense and Sensibility is a story of two young sisters on a voyage of burgeoning sexual and romantic discovery. The death of rational Elinor and romantic Marianne's (Newcomers Hattie Morahan and Charity Wakefield) father throws their privileged world into chaos. With no entitlement to his estate, they are forced to live in poverty. Although the sisters' chances of marriage seem doomed, attractive men are drawn to the girls. (Wikipedia)
The Web of Caves (1999) - TV Special
In this sketch which aired in September 1999 as part of the "Doctor Who Night", aliens try to persuade Doctor Who to defeat their schemes.
The Kidnappers (1999) - TV Special
In this sketch which aired during the "Doctor Who Night" in 1999, Peter Davison, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in "Doctor Who" from 1982 to 1984, is abducted by a fan to present him to a friend.
The Pitch of Fear (1999) - TV Special
This spoof sketch which aired during the "Doctor Who Night" in 1999 is about the early history of "Doctor Who".
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface. (BBC)
The Worst Journey in the World (2007) - TV Movie
Before his famed second polar expedition, Scott and his men spent over two years conducting scientific experiments in that harsh environment. One such task saw three of his men set forth in the snow, facing the harshest of conditions and risking their lives and their sanity. Three adventurers faced the worst journey in the world to bring back Emperor penguin eggs which they hoped would prove an evolutionary link between reptiles and birds. (BBC)
Worried About The Boy (2010) - TV Movie
In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter,who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk... (imdb)
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010) - TV Mini-Series
Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond. (imdb)
The Wind in the Willows (2006) - TV Movie
Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. (wikipedia.org)
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012) - TV Movie
A 90-minute exploration of European horror. (en.wikipedia.org)
The Guides (2002) - Short Film
A naive tourist visits a cathedral and discovers a portal to a grotesque world where time and space is distorted.
Fear of Fanny (2006) - TV Movie
The bizarre tale of Fanny Cradock, Britain's famous and maligned TV chef from 50s to the 70s. (imdb)
The Real History of Science Fiction (2014) - TV Mini-Series
The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction. The story of one of the liveliest and most stimulating genres in popular culture will be told through its impact on cinema, television and literature. Each
Wolf Hall (2015) - TV Mini-Series
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. (imdb)
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens' hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people. (youtube.com)
Coalition (2015) - TV Movie
Feature-length political drama by acclaimed writer James Graham, charting the emotionally wrought and frenzied days in 2010 that led to Nick Clegg's rise from rank outsider to the man who would decide the fate of the country.
The Vote (2015) - TV Movie
Set in a fictional London polling station, The Vote dramatises the final ninety minutes before the polls close in this year's General Election. On that exact day, May 7, at that precise time 8.30 - 10pm, the play will be broadcast live on More4 from the Donmar stage. (channel4.com)
Nighty Night (2004) - TV Series
While telling her husband he's dying, Jill sets her sights on the next door neighbour, Don. And torments his wife, who suffers from MS. (imdb)
The League of Gentlemen (1999) - TV Series
An interweaving narrative chronicling the antics of such diverse characters as: a transsexual taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women into marriage, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people. (imdb)
Sherlock (2010) - TV Series
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London. (imdb)
P.R.O.B.E.: The Devil of Winterborne (1995) - Direct-to-Video
P.R.O.B.E. are summoned to investigate a series of strange events linked to a private school. Liz Shaw comes under increasing pressure to solve the case as P.R.O.B.E. is threatened with closure just when it may be most needed. (imdb)
London Spy (2015) - TV Mini-Series
Story of a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess.
The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion. (imdb)
Taboo (2016) - TV Series
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney builds his own shipping empire in the early 1800s. (imdb)
A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. (imdb)
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more! (imdb)
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. (imdb)
Crooked House (2008) - TV Series
A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day. (imdb)
Gunpowder (2017) - TV Mini-Series
British activist Guy Fawkes and a group of provincial English Catholics plan to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early 17th century. (imdb)
Yachtsman Donald Crowhurst's disastrous attempt to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous account of traveling the world alone by sea. (imdb)
A bawdy, acerbic tale of royal intrigue, passion, envy and betrayal in the court of Queen Anne in early 18th century England. (imdb)
A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
With the King's mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man. (imdb)
Dracula (2020) - TV Mini-Series
In 1897 Transylvania, the blood-drinking Count draws his plans against Victorian London. (imdb)
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. (imdb)
A quarreling couple make peace in order to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and pull off a jewellery heist at the Harrods department store.
During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore , her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her. (imdb)
Memento Mori (2021) - Short Film
In Victorian Dublin, a post-mortem photographer receives his latest subject, a recently deceased young woman. 'Memento Mori' means 'Remember Death', and this night, and this encounter with the dead young woman will be unforgettable.
One of Marvel's most iconic families makes it back to the big screen, the Fantastic Four. (imdb)
Clone (2008) - TV Series
In 1991, the British Government began a secret project to create the first human clone. Intended to be a prototype super soldier, the experiment went horribly wrong. Now he and his creator are on the run, trying to find the key to unlock the clone's super-human abilities before the Government finds them and kills them. This is their story. (imdb)
Bookish (2025) - TV Series
Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop, relies on his vast collection to unravel baffling cases. He nurtures a group of lovable yet troubled individuals, providing informal protection and guidance. (imdb)