--- name: "Alex Horne" canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-horne" fi1m_id: "alex-horne" imdb_id: "nm2640385" tmdb_id: 1784796 wikidata_id: "Q4717202" roles: ["Producer"] born: "10 September 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-07T17:42:17.868474+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Alex Horne ## Identity Alex Horne - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alex-horne - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** alex-horne - **IMDb ID:** nm2640385 - **TMDB ID:** 1784796 - **Wikidata ID:** Q4717202 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Horne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4717202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2640385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1784796 Producer. Born 10 September 1978 in West Sussex, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Producer - **Born:** 10 September 1978, West Sussex, UK - **Also known as:** Alexander James Jeffrey Horne - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 other - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (1), 2010s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Horne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4717202, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2640385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1784796 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Taskmaster*](https://film.one/tv/taskmaster.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Alex Horne is an English comedian, writer and musician. He created the comedy panel show *Taskmaster* (2015–), in which he appears as the assistant to Greg Davies, and is credited as writer and original concept originator. Horne was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and was a member of the Footlights. He is also the creator and frontman of the comedic band The Horne Section, which has performed on BBC Radio 4 and later had its own Channel 4 television series. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, alexhorne.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Wrote (1) - *Taskmaster* (2015), Fi1m 82, as Self - Taskmaster's Assistant — [page](https://film.one/tv/taskmaster.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Have I Got News for You* (1990), Fi1m 80, as Self - Host — [page](https://film.one/tv/have-i-got-news-for-you.md) ## Complete filmography (30) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Taskmaster: GOSH Charity Special* (2026), Director, Writer - *Taskmaster Iceland* (2026), series, Creator - *Taskmaster - kuninga käsul* (2026), series, Creator - *Chess Ham* (2025), as Finance - *Time Travel Is Dangerous!* (2025), as The Unreason Band (as the Horne Section) - *Jazz Emu: Ego Death* (2025), as Qwæsian - *Junior Taskmaster Finland* (2024), series, Creator - *Taskmasterclass* (2024), series, Creator - *Door(s)* (2022), Executive Producer, Writers' Assistant - *The Horne Section TV Show* (2022), series, as Alex Horne · Creator - *Oo my baby* (2022), Writers' Assistant, Executive Producer - *Taskmaster Portugal* (2022), series, Original Concept, Creator - *Taskmaster Croatia* (2021), series, Original Concept - *Blankety Blank* (2021), series, Actor - *Taskmaster’s New Year Treat* (2021), series, Creator - *Taskmaster NZ* (2020), series, Original Concept, Executive Producer, Creator - *No More Jockeys* (2020), series, as Creator - *Taskmaster Finland* (2020), series, Creator - *The Horne Section Television Programme* (2018), Original Music Composer, Writer - *The Horne Section Television Programme* (2018), series, Actor - *Taskmaster* (2018), series, Original Concept, Creator - *The Button* (2018), series, as Narrator - *Taskmaster: Champion of Champions* (2017), series, Original Concept, Creator - *Taskmaster Sweden* (2017), series, Original Concept, Creator - *Taskmaster* (2015), series, Original Concept, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/taskmaster.md) - *The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports* (2010), Writer - *We Need Answers* (2009), series, Creator - *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Actor - *Burger Van Man*, as Police Dispatcher (Voice) - *Sky Comedy Christmas Shorts*, series, Writer ## Gallery - ![Alex Horne at the Taskmaster S17 World Premiere in NYC, 2024](https://film.one/media/person/6795432/gallery-5eb73df46e8e.jpg) Alex Horne at the Taskmaster S17 World Premiere in NYC, 2024 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/AlexHorne-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-AlexHorne-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Alex Horne at the Taskmaster S17 World Premiere in NYC, 2024](https://film.one/media/person/6795432/gallery-dcb823f12462.jpg) Alex Horne at the Taskmaster S17 World Premiere in NYC, 2024 — PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/AlexHorne-byPhilipRomano_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-AlexHorne-byPhilipRomano_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Alex Horne, Waterstones, Piccadilly, London, 6 December 2018](https://film.one/media/person/6795432/gallery-8e7b65716d96.jpg) Alex Horne, Waterstones, Piccadilly, London, 6 December 2018 — Edwardx, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Alex_Horne_20181206.jpg/1280px-Alex_Horne_20181206.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Alex Horne](https://film.one/media/person/6795432/gallery-af990dd9fbd0.jpg) Alex Horne — Image via TMDB - ![Alex Horne](https://film.one/media/person/6795432/gallery-863231369b61.jpg) Alex Horne — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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