---
name: "Ed Gaughan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ed-gaughan"
fi1m_id: "ed-gaughan"
imdb_id: "nm2755953"
tmdb_id: 147797
wikidata_id: "Q23881926"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T21:17:29.960671+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."
---

# Ed Gaughan

## Identity

Ed Gaughan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ed-gaughan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ed-gaughan
- **IMDb ID:** nm2755953
- **TMDB ID:** 147797
- **Wikidata ID:** Q23881926
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gaughan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23881926, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2755953/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147797

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2010–2018
- **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gaughan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23881926, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2755953/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147797

## Biography

Ed Gaughan is an English actor, comedian, director, voice actor and jazz musician. He grew up in Barnstaple and attended Pilton Community College. From 2000 to 2010 he formed a stand-up comedy double act with Andrew Buckley.

Gaughan co-created, co-wrote and starred as Davis in the 2010 film *Skeletons*, which received a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Director and won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He was nominated for the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy in 2011. He holds a BA in Jazz from Middlesex University and has worked as a voice actor since 2007, notably as Baron von Greenback in the BBC series *Danger Mouse* (2015–2019) and as Q Pootle 5.

His other screen credits include *Black Mirror* (2011) as Shaun, *Hummingbird* (2013) as Stan, *Brassic* (2019–) as Gideon, *Closer to the Moon* (2014) as the Defence Attorney, and *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018) as a French Policeman.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, shakespearesglobe.com, unitedagents.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018), Fi1m 46, as French Policeman — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald.md)
- *Skeletons* (2010), Fi1m 70, as Davis — [page](https://film.one/film/skeletons.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Smoggie Queens* (2024), series, as Care Home Manager
- *Steve Parker* (2024), as Steve Parker (Voice)
- *Incredible Ant* (2022), series, as Gatekeeper (voice)
- *Brassic* (2019), series, as Gideon
- *Spymonkey's A Christmas Carol* (2018), Director
- *Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald* (2018), as French Policeman — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald.md)
- *Quacks* (2017), series, as Peters
- *Danger Mouse* (2015), series, as Baron Greenback / Quark / Pandaminion (voice)
- *Nipplejesus* (2015), as Priest
- *Closer to the Moon* (2014), as Defence Attorney
- *Hummingbird* (2013), as Stan
- *Playhouse Presents* (2012), series, as Derek
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Shaun — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *The North London Book of the Dead* (2011), as W
- *Skeletons* (2010), as Davis — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/skeletons.md)
- *Everything* (2004), Actor

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