Keith Chegwin

Keith Chegwin (born 17 January 1957) is an English television presenter and actor.

Early life

Born in Bootle, Chegwin's early career started by entering an end of pier talent competition in Rhyl, North Wales. He joined 'The Happy Wanderers' a concert party that toured the pubs, clubs of the north west. He was then spotted by June Collins (Phil Collins's mother) of the Barbara Speake Stage School on Junior Showtime, a Yorkshire Television programme for young talent. She invited him to London to audition for the stage show Mame with Ginger Rogers. He attended stage school with his twin brother, Jeff. As part of a play he performed in at the school, Chegwin claims to have sung the first song that Phil Collins ever wrote.

While at school, Chegwin auditioned and got roles on TV, film and stage. He was in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970). Chegwin's most prestigious acting role was that of Fleance in Roman Polanski's film Macbeth (1971), and he also played a small role in the 1973 film The Optimists of Nine Elms starring Peter Sellers. In 1973, he also appeared in the pilot episode of Open All Hours and then had smaller parts in The Liver Birds, The Adventures of Black Beauty, My Old Man, Village Hall, Z-Cars (both 1974), ITV's The Wackers and The Tomorrow People serial Worlds Away (both in 1975). His last major acting role was the title role in the film Robin Hood Junior (1975), although he had two small roles with Tom Courtenay in the Chester Mystery Cycle (1976) and some years later in the film Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999). He appeared in TV ads for products such as Pepsi, Barley Water, Tizer and Cadbury Creme Eggs and even modelled underpants in the 'Freemans' catalogue

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (/dʒərˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer and former pop singer and manager.

Gervais worked initially in the music industry, attempting a career as a pop star in the 1980s as the singer of the new wave act Seona Dancing and working as the manager of the then-unknown band Suede before turning to comedy. Gervais appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 between 1998 and 2000. In 2000, he was given a Channel 4 talk show, Meet Ricky Gervais, and then achieved greater mainstream fame a year later with his BBC television series The Office. It was followed by Extras in 2005. He co-wrote and co-directed both series with Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, he played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. He will reprise his role as Brent in the upcoming comedy film Life on the Road.

He has also starred in the Hollywood films Ghost Town, and Muppets Most Wanted, and wrote, directed and starred in The Invention of Lying and the upcoming Special Correspondents. He has performed on four stand-up comedy tours and written the Flanimals book series. Gervais also starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the podcast The Ricky Gervais Show, which has spawned various spin-offs starring Pilkington and produced by Gervais and Merchant. He hosted the Golden Globe Awards in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016.

Steve Coogan

Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, writer, and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early 1990s, he began creating original comic characters, leading him to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions.

While working with Armando Iannucci on On the Hour and The Day Today, Coogan created his most developed and popular character: Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality. He featured in several television series, which earned him three BAFTA nominations and two wins for Best Comedy Performance. A feature-length film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, was released in 2013, and opened at number one at the British box office.

Coogan grew in prominence within the film industry in 2002, after starring in The Parole Officer and 24 Hour Party People. He portrayed Phileas Fogg in the 2004 remake Around the World in 80 Days and co-starred in The Other Guys, Tropic Thunder, In the Loop, Hamlet 2, Our Idiot Brother, Ruby Sparks and the Night at the Museum films, as well as collaborating with Rob Brydon in The Trip and A Cock and Bull Story. He was also a voice actor in the animated comedy films Despicable Me 2 and its prequel Minions, and played Hades in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

Too Short

Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966), better known by the stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known for his hit songs like "The Ghetto" and "Blow the Whistle". Too Short is one of the very few musicians to have been able to collaborate with both 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. during the height of their careers.

Too Short is credited as being one of the pioneer rappers of West Coast hip hop. Many of his rap lyrics are about pimping, drug use & sexual antics.

Career

Shaw was born and grew up in South Central Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, Shaw and his family moved to Oakland, California. He was a drummer in the band at Fremont High School in Oakland. In the mid 1980s, Shaw produced custom songs (called "special requests") for people with his high school friend, Freddy B. In 1985, Too Short had his first release, Don't Stop Rappin' which, along with the following three releases, featured raw, simple drum beats from a LinnDrum drum machine. This was also one of the first hip hop records to use the word "bitch" - a word which became one of the rapper's trademarks and was the focus of subsequent raps such as Ain't nothing but a word to me.

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'Keith Chegwin' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Kill Keith (2011)

Actors: Simon Phillips (actor), Tony Blackburn (actor), Vanessa Feltz (actress), Gino Picciano (actor), Lee Asquith-Coe (actor), Lee Asquith-Coe (actor), Joe Pasquale (actor), Keith Chegwin (actor), Frank Scantori (actor), Mick Slaney (actor), Dominic Burns (actor), Paul Atherton (producer), Richard Colton (editor), Andy Thompson (writer), Andy Thompson (writer),

Plot: Kill Keith: Volume 1. Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin is a household name and has been at the top of his game for nearly 40 years. He's an all round entertainer and has lived with us via our TV screens on Swap Shop as kids through to GMTV as parents. He is undoubtedly a national treasure, and for nearly four decades has been much loved by viewers young and old. The year is 2010 and hidden away in a damp dark and blood stain cellar is a stranger, a man, a figure in the dark, someone we'd rather not know. He sits through the small hours torturing himself watching Swap Shop on fast forward over and over again. Cheggers Plays Pop posters decorate the cellar walls. The stranger moves slowly around his memorabilia filled shrine; terrifying equipment of torture fill the cellar together with several slabs of dead meat hanging from meat hooks. In the corner a man is bound and gagged in a cage while being subjected to archive TV clips of Keith Chegwin. The stranger is on an evil crusade. What is this unhealthy obsession with Keith Chegwin? Is the stranger plotting to kill our much loved Keith? Innocent victims from around the country slowly start to disappear. The damp cellar accrues more bodies. The news headlines build of reports of a serial killer. Cheggers continues his daily TV show while the nation lives in fear of evil roaming the country. Body parts begin to surface hundreds of miles from where they disappeared. How safe is Keith? How long before the stranger fulfills his obsessive desires?

Genres: Comedy, Horror,
Taglines: SAW meets RICHARD & JUDY

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Actors: David Walliams (actor), Peter Serafinowicz (actor), Matt Lucas (actor), Simon Pegg (actor), Martin Freeman (actor), Reece Shearsmith (actor), Mark Gatiss (actor), Paul Kaye (actor), Rob Brydon (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Rob Brydon (actor), Nick Frost (actor), Mark Gatiss (actor), Edgar Wright (actor), Edgar Wright (actor),

Plot: Life isn't too good for Shaun (Pegg). He lives with his best friend Ed (Frost), neglects his girlfriend Liz (Ashfield) and despises his step-dad (Nighy). When Liz dumps Shaun, he vows to get his life back on track. Unfortunatly, this is the day that the dead has decided to come back to life. With a cricket bat and Ed by his side, Shaun sets out to rescue those he loves and those he doesn't love, and heads to the safest place he knows...the Winchester.

Keywords: 2000s, accountant, actress, air-raid-siren, answering-machine, anti-hero, arab-grocer, arson, beaten-to-death, beheading
Genres: Comedy, Horror,
Taglines: It's just one of those days when you're feeling a little...dead. Buy Milk. Ring Mum. Dodge Zombies Shuffling into theaters September 24th. A romantic comedy. With zombies. Ever felt like you were surrounded by zombies? In a time of crisis a hero must rise...from his sofa. Bought coffee. Called Mom. Dodged zombies. This September, aim for the head.

Quotes:

[describing the zombies]::Dianne: Just look at the face: it's vacant, with a hint of sadness. Like a drunk who's lost a bet.

Liz: Shaun?::Shaun: Yeah?::Liz: You see what I'm saying?::Shaun: Yep, totally.::Liz: I know he's your best friend, but you do live with him.::Shaun: I know.::Liz: It's not that I don't like Ed. [Liz looks over at Ed who is playing an arcade game] Ed, it's not that I don't like you.::Ed: It's all right.::Liz: It would just be nice if we could...::Ed: [talking to the arcade machine] Fuck!::Liz: ...spend a bit more time together...::Ed: [talking to the arcade machine] Bollocks!::Liz: ...just the two of us.::Ed: [talking to the arcade machine] Cock it!::Liz: It's just with Ed here, it's no wonder I always bring my flat-mates out and then that only exacerbates things.::Shaun: What do you mean?::Liz: Well you guys hardly get on, do you?::Shaun: No, what does "exacerbate" mean?::Liz: It means um, to make things worse.::Shaun: Right. Well I mean, it's not that I don't like David and Di. [Shaun looks over at David and Di at the table next to them] Guys, it's not that I don't like you.::David, Dianne: [together] It's all right.::Shaun: And it's not that I don't want to spend time with you cause I do. It's just... Ed doesn't have too many friends.::Ed: Can I get... any of you cunts... a drink?

[repeated line]::Ed: I've got nothing.

[the jukebox starts playing a love song after Liz has broken up with Shaun]::Ed: Who the hell put this on?::Shaun: [tearfully] It's on random.

[repeated line]::Ed: Cock it!

Dianne: SHAUN!::[Dianne throws a dart and misses]::Shaun: NO!::[Dianne throws another dart and hits the zombie]::Shaun: YES, yes, in the head!::[Dianne throws a third dart and hits Shaun in the head on accident]::Shaun: AHHHHHHHHH!

[Shaun leads the zombies away from the pub to create a diversion]::Shaun: Come and get it! It's a running buffet! [shouts] All you can eat!

[Philip is crouched beside the car, after being bitten by a zombie]::Philip: You're not driving that car.

Ed: Any zombies out there?::Shaun: Don't say that!::Ed: What?::Shaun: That!::Ed: What?::Shaun: The zed-word. Don't say it!::Ed: Why not?::Shaun: Because it's ridiculous!::Ed: All right... are there any out there, though?::[looking out of the letter-box, he sees an empty street]::Shaun: I can't see any. Maybe it's not as bad as all that.::[he turns his head and sees a pack of zombies]::Shaun: Oh, no, there they are.

Ed: Hey, Shaun, look who it is!::Shaun: FUCK-A-DOODLE-DO!

Tabloid (2004)

Actors: Derek Lyons (actor), David Soul (actor), Art Malik (actor), John Hurt (actor), Danny Dyer (actor), Sarah Lucraft (miscellaneous crew), Stefano Accorsi (actor), Anne Dudley (composer), Stephen Tompkinson (actor), Keith Chegwin (actor), Matthew Rhys (actor), Keith Hayley (producer), Sarah Hayward (miscellaneous crew), Gail Porter (actress), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller,

House! (2000)

Actors: Bruce Forsyth (actor), Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Mark Thomas (composer), Freddie Jones (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Sally Jones (miscellaneous crew), Kelly Macdonald (actress), David Ball (producer), Keith Chegwin (actor), Christopher Figg (producer), Emma Davie (miscellaneous crew), William Thomas (actor), Paul Hart-Wilden (miscellaneous crew), Jason Hughes (actor), Jonathan Rudd (editor),

Plot: The staff of La Scala, a small bingo hall in Wales, fear for their livelihoods when the UK's largest bingo centre opens nearby. When staff member Linda discovers she has the ability to predict bingo numbers, she hopes to use her powers to save La Scala, buy her greedy aunt's share of her mother's house, and find love with La Scala's star bingo caller, Gavin.

Keywords: bingo, independent-film, magic, rivalry, wales
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: Life's not about winning or losing, it's about crossing the line.

Mr. White Goes to Westminster (1997)

Actors: Celia Imrie (actress), Bill Paterson (actor), Samantha Bond (actress), Steve Eveleigh (editor), Terence Harvey (actor), Robert Hoyland (actor), Keith Chegwin (actor), Jo Thompson (costume designer), Guy Jenkin (writer), Guy Jenkin (director), Nicholas Hoult (actor), Dervla Kirwan (actress), Andy Hamilton (actor), Jasper Jacob (actor), Moray Hunter (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

The Perfect Match (1995)

Actors: John Thomson (actor), Andy Harries (producer), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Christine Langan (producer), Susan Lynch (actress), Peter Howitt (actor), Saskia Reeves (actress), Keith Chegwin (actor), Laurence Richardson (actor), Mark Redhead (producer), Con O'Neill (actor), Oral Norrie Ottey (editor), Sheila Gish (actress), Mike Bullen (writer), Nick Hurran (director),

Plot: Guy proposes to his girlfriend by putting a notice on the half time scoreboard at the FA cup final. The entire crowd at wembley stadium cheer them on as he holds up the ring. The TV cameras pick it up. it becomes wedding of the year, but she doesn't want to marry him.

Genres: Drama,

High Rise Donkey (1980)

Actors: Alfie Bass (actor), Roy Kinnear (actor), Harry Fowler (actor), Wilfrid Brambell (actor), Hugh Stewart (producer), Keith Chegwin (actor), Ed Welch (composer), Declan Mulholland (actor), James Ellis (actor), Pat Coombs (actress), Michael Forlong (director), T.E.B. Clarke (writer), Beryl Cooke (actress), Rhonda Small (editor), Aaron Sweeney (actor),

Genres: Family,

Chegwin, Keith Filmography

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2011, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2006, role: actor , character name: Robin Hood
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Andy's Group
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2004, role: miscellaneous crew
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2004, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin - Commentator
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2004, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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2004, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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2003, role: actor , character name: Guest Coach
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
Play in Full Screen It's Your New Year's Eve Party

2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2000, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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1999, role: actor , character name: Hugh Pimm
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1999, role: actor , character name: Host
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1998, role: actor , character name: Presenter
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1997, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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1995, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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1993, role: actor , character name: Nurse
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1993, role: actor , character name: Outdoor Presenter
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1992, role: actor , character name: On the Road Presenter
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1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - The Greatest Show on Legs
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1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1980, role: actor , character name: Keith Chegwin
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1975, role: actor , character name: Robin
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1973, role: actor , character name: Georgie
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1971, role: actor , character name: Fleance
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1971, role: actor , character name: John
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1971, role: actor , character name: Host
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1970, role: actor , character name: Paul 'Egghead' Wentworth
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1967, role: actor , character name: Egghead Wentworth

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published: 15 Dec 2011

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published: 22 Sep 2007

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published: 31 Oct 2011

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published: 14 Jul 2014

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published: 21 May 2015

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published: 10 Nov 2015

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