Kevin McNally
Kevin McNally, July 2006
Born	(1956-04-27) 27 April 1956 (age 56) Bristol, UK
Other names	Kevin R. McNally
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Spouse	Phyllis Logan (?–present)

Kevin McNally (born 27 April 1956)^[1] is an English actor who has worked in theatre and radio extensively as well as in film and television.

Life and career[link]

Born in Bristol, McNally spent his early years in Birmingham, attending Redhill Junior School on Redhill Road in Hay Mills and Mapledene Junior School (now Mapledene Primary School) on Mapledene Road in Sheldon. He went to Central Grammar School for Boys on Gressel Lane in Tile Cross. His first professional job, at the age of 16, was at the Birmingham Rep. In 1973 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where, in 1975, he won the Best Actor Bancroft Gold Medal.^[1]

His most famous role is Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. He is also one of the three actors who starred in all four films.

McNally lives in Chiswick and is married to the actress Phyllis Logan. They have a son born June 1996.

Filmography[link]

Notably, along with fellow British actors Ian McNeice and Kenneth Branagh, McNally appeared in two World War II films, Valkyrie and Conspiracy that depict behind-the-scenes activities of high ranking officials in Nazi Germany.

Television credits[link]

Other TV credits include: Z-Cars, The Bill, Casualty, The New Statesman and Murder Most Horrid. McNally also co-wrote several episodes of the television series Minder and Boon in the eighties.

Selected stage roles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kevin McNally

• Kevin McNally at the Internet Movie Database

Fry and Laurie were a successful English comedy double act, mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo consisted of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, who met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst all attended the University of Cambridge. Fry and Laurie have since collaborated on numerous projects together, including Jeeves and Wooster, in which Laurie portrayed Bertie Wooster and Fry portrayed Wooster's valet Jeeves. They also gained prominence through their own sketch show, A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

Since the conclusion of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, both have gone on to have successful solo careers in television, acting and writing, amongst other things though they still remain friends. More recently, Fry and Laurie have expressed interest in a continued partnership and reunited for a retrospective show in 2010 entitled Fry and Laurie Reunited.

On May 14, 2012, Stephen Fry announced on Twitter that he and Hugh Laurie are working on a new project together^[1].

Collaborations[link]

Television programmes[link]

• Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982) (BBC2)
• There's Nothing to Worry About (1982)
• Alfresco (1983) (ITV)
• The Crystal Cube (1983) (BBC2)
• The Young Ones (1984) (BBC2) (appearing in the episode "Bambi")
• Weekend In Wallop (1984) (ITV)
• Saturday Live (1986) (C4)
• Blackadder II (1986) (BBC1) (two episodes together)
• Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) (BBC2) (appearing in the second episode)
• First Aids (1987) (ITV)
• Blackadder the Third (1987) (BBC1) (one episode together)
• The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987) (ITV)
• A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) (BBC2, BBC1)
• Hysteria! Hysteria! Hysteria! (1988)
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) (BBC1)
• The New Statesman (appearing in the episode "The Haltemprice Bunker") (1989)
• A Night Of Comic Relief 2 (1989) (BBC1)
• Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) (BBC1)
• The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989) (ITV)
• Hysteria 2 (1989) (C4)
• Jeeves and Wooster (1990–93) (ITV)
• Comic Relief - 1991 (1991) (BBC1)
• Hysteria III (1991) (C4)
• Fry and Laurie Host A Christmas Night with the Stars (1994) (BBC2)
• Live from the Lighthouse (1998)
• The Nearly Complete And Utter History Of Everything (2000) (BBC1)
• Blackadder: Back & Forth (2000) (Sky One)
• Fortysomething (2003) (one show together)
• QI (2003) (BBC2) (one episode together)
• Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010) (GOLD)
• Fry and Laurie worked with magician and sceptic James Randi on an episode of Randi's British television show.^[2]

Films[link]

• Peter's Friends (1992)
• Spiceworld (1997) (cameos)

Radio shows[link]

• Saturday Night Fry on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 (five shows together)
• Whose Line is it Anyway? on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 (one show together)

Published materials[link]

Published television scripts

• A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1990)
• A Bit More Fry & Laurie (1991)
• 3 Bits of Fry & Laurie (1992)
• Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995)

Miscellaneous[link]

Fry and Laurie have also appeared together in various television advertisements, interviews, audio books and other projects.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stephen Fry at the Internet Movie Database
• Hugh Laurie at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of 1982 Cambridge Footlights show
• Stephen Fry's Official Website
• The BBC's pages:
  • A Bit of Fry and Laurie
  • Blackadder Goes Forth
  • Blackadder the Third
  • Blackadder II
  • QI
  • The Young Ones
• "0.567359" gag

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Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress.

Education[link]

Logan was educated at Johnstone High School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland.^[1] After school, she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with the James Bridie Gold Medal in 1977.

Career[link]

After graduation, she joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre.^[2] She left in 1979 to work on stage in Edinburgh. She also worked regularly on Scottish television. On the BBC Scotland production, The White Bird Passes, she first met writer-director Michael Radford. In his first feature film, Another Time, Another Place in 1982, he cast her in the leading role of Janie,^{[citation needed]} for which she won a Gold Award for Best Actress at the Taormina Film Festival and the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress in 1983 and the BAFTA Award for the Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

She has also had parts in the 1996 Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies and a regular role as Lady Jane Felsham in the television series Lovejoy. Logan provided the broadcast voice of Ingsoc in the film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Loch Ness Monster in the cartoon Freddie as F.R.O.7. She was in the radio series Coming Alive and Baggage. She played Inspector Frost's love interest in If Dogs Run Free, the last story in the A Touch of Frost series, and marries him. She played Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, in both first and second series of the period drama Downton Abbey (2010-11).

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Phyllis Logan at the Internet Movie Database