Peter Baynham
Born June 28, 1963 · Cardiff, Wales, UK
Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter and performer known for his work in comedy. He has collaborated with notable figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Sarah Smith on various projects including films like Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Shaun of the Dead.
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Biography
Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter and performer. He is best known for appearing in a series of comedic Pot Noodle television adverts in the 1990s. His work largely represents collaborations with comedy figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Sarah Smith. Born in Cardiff, Baynham served in the Merchant Navy after leaving school and later pursued a career in comedy — first in stand-up, and then as a writer and performer for various news and sketch comedies in radio and television while enjoying personal fame starring in Pot Noodle adverts. He then became a writer in feature film.
In television, with Iannucci he is writer for I'm Alan Partridge, developing the character Alan Partridge as performed by Coogan, and as writer and host of the Armistice review shows. With Morris, he is writer for The Day Today, Brass Eye, and Jam. Baynham himself created the animated series I Am Not an Animal. In feature film, with Baron Cohen he is writer for Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Brüno (2009), Grimsby (2016), and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020). With Smith, he is writer for Arthur Christmas (2011) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). With Iannucci and Coogan, he is writer for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013). Other features as writer include Arthur (2011) and Hotel Transylvania (2012).
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Selected Filmography
- The Bill(1984)TV Series · 1 epas Mickey Tulliver
- Hotel Transylvania(2012)Screenplay
- Shaun of the Dead(2004)as Man in Street (uncredited)
- The Dictator(2012)Executive Producer
- Ron's Gone Wrong(2021)Executive Producer
- Arthur Christmas(2011)as Elf (voice)
- Grimsby(2016)as Traffic Warden
- I'm Alan Partridge(1997)TV Series · 1 epas Hugh Morris
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2006)Screenplay
- Bob and Margaret(1998)TV Series · 52 eps
- Brass Eye(1997)TV Series · 1 epas Welsh Naval Officer
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2020)Screenplay
- The Day Today(1994)TV Series · 1 epas Colin Poppshed
- Jam(2000)TV Series · 6 epsWriter
- Brüno(2009)Story
- Big Train(1998)TV Series · 2 epsWriter
- Fist of Fun(1995)TV Series · 12 epsWriter
- I Am Not an Animal(2004)TV Series · 6 epsWriter
- Arthur(2011)Screenplay
- The Saturday Night Armistice(1995)TV Series · 24 epsWriter