---
name: "David Baddiel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-baddiel"
fi1m_id: "david-baddiel"
imdb_id: "nm0045974"
tmdb_id: 151343
wikidata_id: "Q526242"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 May 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T17:34:15.794389+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."
---

# David Baddiel

## Identity

David Baddiel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-baddiel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-baddiel
- **IMDb ID:** nm0045974
- **TMDB ID:** 151343
- **Wikidata ID:** Q526242
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baddiel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526242, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045974/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151343

Actor. Born 28 May 1964 in Troy, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 May 1964, Troy, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** David Lionel Baddiel
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 58 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baddiel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526242, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0045974/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151343

## Biography

David Lionel Baddiel is an English comedian, screenwriter, author and television presenter. He was born on 28 May 1964 in Troy, New York, to British parents and moved to England with his family when he was four months old. He studied English at King's College, Cambridge.

Baddiel first came to prominence through his work with Rob Newman on *The Mary Whitehouse Experience*. He later formed a long-running comedy partnership with Frank Skinner, including the improvised series *Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned* (2000). He has appeared as himself on *Little Britain* (2003) and other panel shows such as *Taskmaster* and *Would I Lie to You?*, and has acted in series including *Skins* (2007) and *Horrible Histories* (2009). Baddiel has also written films such as *The Infidel* (2010).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Taskmaster* (2015), Fi1m 82, as Self — [page](https://film.one/tv/taskmaster.md)
- *Little Britain* (2003), Fi1m 58, as Self — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-britain.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *David Baddiel: Cat Man* (2026), series, Story
- *Recall Me Maybe* (2025), Writer, Director
- *What They Found* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Matt le Tissier - Unbelievable* (2024), Actor
- *Gorka* (2023), as Morris
- *Elliott from Earth* (2021), series, Actor
- *Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains* (2021), series, as Guest
- *Confronting Holocaust Denial With David Baddiel* (2020), Writer
- *The New Man* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Dharam Sankat Mein* (2015), Writer
- *Reggie & Thunderbirds: No Strings Attached* (2015), Actor
- *Big School* (2013), series, Script Editor
- *The Infidel* (2010), Writer, Producer
- *Horrible Histories* (2009), series, Actor
- *Comedy Map of Britain* (2007), series, Actor
- *Skins* (2007), series, as Steve — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *Baddiel & Skinner's Fantasy Football* (2004), Writer
- *Baddiel's Syndrome* (2001), series, as David · Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Announcement* (2000), as Dougie
- *Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned* (2000), series, Actor
- *Where's Elvis This Week?* (1996), series, Actor
- *TFI Friday* (1996), series, Actor
- *Fantasy Football League* (1994), series, Actor
- *Newman and Baddiel: Live and in Pieces* (1993), Writer
- *Newman and Baddiel in Pieces* (1993), series, as Creator
- *Newman and Baddiel: History Today* (1992), Writer, Creator
- *Spitting Image: Best Of - Is Nothing Sacred?* (1991), Writer
- *The Mary Whitehouse Experience* (1991), series, Actor
- *Filthy Rich & Catflap* (1987), series, as Art Bidder
- *Arena* (1975), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![David Baddiel at the 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival](https://film.one/media/person/286887/gallery-25585110328b.jpg) David Baddiel at the 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/David_Baddiel_at_the_2025_Edinburgh_International_Book_Festival-01.jpg/1280px-David_Baddiel_at_the_2025_Edinburgh_International_Book_Festival-01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Baddiel at the 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival](https://film.one/media/person/286887/gallery-7e74c1e2bbc5.jpg) David Baddiel at the 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/David_Baddiel_at_the_2025_Edinburgh_International_Book_Festival-02_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-David_Baddiel_at_the_2025_Edinburgh_International_Book_Festival-02_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Baddiel at Nightingale House, Nov 2010](https://film.one/media/person/286887/gallery-00951fdd906c.jpg) David Baddiel at Nightingale House, Nov 2010 — Brian Minkoff-London Pixels, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Davidbaddielnightingale.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![David Baddiel at the Secret Comedy Podcast (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/286887/gallery-b7a4551885a0.jpg) David Baddiel at the Secret Comedy Podcast (2013) — Amnesty International UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Secret_Comedy_Podcast_-_3_August_2013_-_11_%289430466386%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![David Baddiel - Soho Theatre - Thursday 9th January 2020](https://film.one/media/person/286887/gallery-d81207143030.jpg) David Baddiel - Soho Theatre - Thursday 9th January 2020 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/BaddielSohoT090120.jpg/1280px-BaddielSohoT090120.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Baddiel - Soho Theatre - Thursday 9th January 2020](https://film.one/media/person/286887/gallery-14ef6858afe7.jpg) David Baddiel - Soho Theatre - Thursday 9th January 2020 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/BaddielSohoT090120-3.jpg/1280px-BaddielSohoT090120-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2019: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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