---
name: "Steve Bendelack"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steve-bendelack"
fi1m_id: "steve-bendelack"
imdb_id: "nm0070436"
tmdb_id: 16356
wikidata_id: "Q2346846"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "director"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-07T13:40:07.994992+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."
---

# Steve Bendelack

## Identity

Steve Bendelack

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/steve-bendelack
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** steve-bendelack
- **IMDb ID:** nm0070436
- **TMDB ID:** 16356
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2346846
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bendelack, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2346846, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070436/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16356

Director. Born 1 January 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 2000
- **Active:** 1998–2011
- **Frequently works with:** [Henry Normal](https://film.one/person/henry-normal.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as director, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (2), 2000s 67 (3), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 6, Family 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $232m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bendelack, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2346846, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070436/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16356

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Royle Family*](https://film.one/tv/the-royle-family.md) (85), [*Friday Night Dinner*](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-dinner.md) (74)
- **Disney+:** [*The Mighty Boosh*](https://film.one/tv/the-mighty-boosh.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Steve Bendelack is an English television and film director who has worked primarily on comedy programmes.

He began as an assistant to Peter Fluck and Roger Law on *Spitting Image* and later directed episodes of the show. His other television credits include *The Mary Whitehouse Experience*, series 2 of *The Royle Family* (1999), *The League of Gentlemen*, the first series of *Little Britain*, the pilot of *The Mighty Boosh* (2003), and the first series of *Friday Night Dinner* (2011). Bendelack has directed the feature films *The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse* (2005), *Mr. Bean's Holiday* (2007) and *The Harry Hill Movie* (2013). He won a BAFTA for directing *The League of Gentlemen*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, pbjmanagement.co.uk, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Friday Night Dinner* (2011), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-dinner.md)
- *Mr. Bean's Holiday* (2007), Fi1m 63, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-beans-holiday.md)
- *The Mighty Boosh* (2004), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mighty-boosh.md)
- *Little Britain* (2003), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-britain.md)
- *The League of Gentlemen* (1999), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-league-of-gentlemen.md)
- *The Royle Family* (1998), Fi1m 85, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-royle-family.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *False Indigo* (2020), Executive Producer
- *The Cockfields* (2019), series, Director
- *Ill Behaviour* (2017), series, Director
- *We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story* (2015), Director
- *The Harry Hill Movie* (2013), Director
- *Way to Go* (2013), series, Director
- *Friday Night Dinner* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-dinner.md)
- *Cowards* (2009), series, Director
- *Comedy Showcase* (2007), series, Director
- *Mr. Bean's Holiday* (2007), Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-beans-holiday.md)
- *Jam and Jerusalem* (2006), series, Director
- *The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You* (2006), Director
- *The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse* (2005), Director
- *The Mighty Boosh* (2004), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mighty-boosh.md)
- *Little Britain* (2003), series, Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-britain.md)
- *Ted and Alice* (2002), series, Director
- *The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane* (2001), Director
- *Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)* (2000), series, Director
- *Dark Ages* (1999), series, Director
- *The League of Gentlemen* (1999), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-league-of-gentlemen.md)
- *Comedy Lab* (1998), series, Director
- *The Royle Family* (1998), series, Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-royle-family.md)
- *Cluub Zarathustra* (1996), Director
- *Never Mind the Buzzcocks* (1996), series, Director
- *Lee and Herring Live* (1996), Director
- *The Saturday Night Armistice* (1995), series, Director
- *Fist of Fun* (1995), series, Director
- *Robert Newman: The Dependence Day Video* (1994), Director
- *Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy* (1993), Director
- *Newman and Baddiel: Live and in Pieces* (1993), Director
- *Newman and Baddiel: History Today* (1992), Director
- *Frank Skinner - Live* (1992), Director
- *Spitting Image: Election Special '92* (1992), Director
- *Heavenly Waters*, Director

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