---
name: "Steve Punt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steve-punt"
fi1m_id: "steve-punt"
imdb_id: "nm0700607"
tmdb_id: 1225233
wikidata_id: "Q7613676"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 September 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T15:58:15.078423+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 Punt

## Identity

Steve Punt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/steve-punt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** steve-punt
- **IMDb ID:** nm0700607
- **TMDB ID:** 1225233
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7613676
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Punt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7613676, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1225233

Actor. Born 15 September 1962 in Dhekelia Cantonment.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 September 1962, Dhekelia Cantonment
- **Also known as:** Stephen Mark Punt 
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Punt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7613676, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1225233

## Biography

Steve Punt (born 15 September 1962) is a British comedian, writer and actor. He was born in Dhekelia Cantonment, Cyprus, and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he joined Footlights and met his long-term collaborator Hugh Dennis.

Punt and Dennis formed a double act and gained prominence in the early 1990s with *The Mary Whitehouse Experience* and their own sketch series. Punt has presented BBC Radio 4's *The Now Show* and contributed writing to panel shows including *Mock the Week* and *Would I Lie to You?*. He played Eric Idle in the 2011 BBC film *Holy Flying Circus* and has written episodes of *Horrible Histories*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Holy Flying Circus* (2011), Fi1m 56, as Eric Idle — [page](https://film.one/film/holy-flying-circus.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Holy Flying Circus* (2011), as Eric Idle — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/holy-flying-circus.md)
- *Horrible Histories* (2009), series, Writer
- *The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall* (2006), Writer
- *Best Ever Spitting Image* (2006), Writer
- *Fat Slags* (2004), as Immigration Officer 1
- *Britain's Best Sitcom* (2004), series, Writer
- *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Actor
- *The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything* (2000), series, Actor
- *Never Mind the Horrocks* (1996), Writer
- *The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show* (1994), series, as Creator
- *The Easter Stories* (1994), series, as Gardener
- *Me, You and Him* (1992), series, as Mark Prior · Writer, Creator
- *GamesMaster* (1992), series, Actor
- *The Mary Whitehouse Experience* (1991), series, Actor
- *Canned Carrott* (1990), series, Actor
- *Spitting Image: The Sound of Maggie* (1989), Writer
- *Carrott Confidential* (1987), series, Actor

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