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Reece Shearsmith
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Reeson Wayne Shearsmith (born 27 August 1969) is a British actor, comedian, writer and magician. He was a member of The League of Gentlemen, with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Jointly with Pemberton, he created, wrote and starred in the sitcom Psychoville and the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. He had notable roles in Spaced and The World's End.
Shearsmith was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Andrew Marvell High School and then Bretton Hall College of Education, where he met Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton, fellow actors and comedians
The League of Gentlemen began as a stage act in 1995, transferred to Radio 4 as On the Town with…
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Reeson Wayne Shearsmith (born 27 August 1969) is a British actor, comedian, writer and magician. He was a member of The League of Gentlemen, with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Jointly with Pemberton, he created, wrote and starred in the sitcom Psychoville and the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. He had notable roles in Spaced and The World's End. Shearsmith was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Andrew Marvell High School and then Bretton Hall College of Education, where he met Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton, fellow actors and comedians The League of Gentlemen began as a stage act in 1995, transferred to Radio 4 as On the Town with The League of Gentlemen in 1997, and arrived on television on BBC Two in 1999. The last saw Shearsmith and his colleagues awarded a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux. Following The League of Gentlemen, Shearsmith appeared in comedy programmes including Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere as well as playing villain Tony in the Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer comedy Catterick. He appeared in two episodes of the award-winning pop-culture comedy Spaced as Robot Wars-obsessed TA soldier Dexter, and played neurotic Doctor Flynn in hospital sitcom TLC alongside Alexander Armstrong. In 2014, Shearsmith and Pemberton returned to BBC2 with a new dark comedy series called Inside No. 9. Each episode of the anthology series takes place in a different 'No. 9' location. Shearsmith and Pemberton play various characters in the series and have also directed two of the episodes.[16] Also in 2014, he starred as Malcolm Webster in ITV drama series, based on a true story, The Widower.
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BODY OF WORK
Reece Shearsmith's Filmography
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Rogue Trooper
as Bagman (voice)
Razor Blade Smile: Vampires Forever
as Self
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
as Self
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
as Norbot (voice)
Saltburn
as Professor Ware
A Brush with Comedy
as Self
See How They Run
as John Woolf
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
as Priest
In the Earth
as Zach Whitehead
Investigating The Ladykillers
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
as Multiple Characters
Zanzibar
as Henry
Borley Rectory
as V.C Wall
The Man You're Not
as Reece Shearsmith
The Riddle of the Sphinx
as Tyler
The Devil of Christmas
Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
No Poster
Peter Kay: 20 Years of Funny
as Self
High-Rise
as Nathan Steele
House of Cards
as Self
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
as Mr Warren
The 12 Days of Christine
as Stranger
La Couchette
as Maxwell
No Poster
The Case of the High Foot
as The Doctor
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
as Self
The Harrowing
as Hector
The Understudy
as Jim
No Poster
Remembering 'Dead of Night'
Tom & Gerri
as Tom
A Quiet Night In
as Ray
Sardines
as Stu
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Patrick Troughton
The World's End
as Collaborator
A Field in England
as Whitehead
Bad Sugar
as Greg
Him Indoors
as Gregory Brewster
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
as Self
Eric & Ernie
as Harry Wiseman
Psychoville Halloween Special
as Various
Burke & Hare
as Sergeant Mackenzie
The First Men in the Moon
as Moon
Peacock Season
as Stoaty
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
The Cottage
as Peter
Christmas at the Riviera
as Ashley
No Poster
Ladies and Gentlemen
as Freddie
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
as Benjamin Denton / Papa Lazarou / Pamela Doove / Ross Gaines / Cathy Carter-Smith / Ollie Plimsoles / Vinnie Whytenshawe / Mr Lisgoe / Bernice Woodall / Dean Tavalouris / Edward Tattsyrup / Geoff Tipps / Judee Levinson
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self - The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as Various Characters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Additional Vogon Voices
Spaced: Skip to the End
as Self
Shaun of the Dead
as Mark
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
as Viking (voice)
No Poster
Tales from Behind the Crypt
as Self
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
as various
Birthday Girl
as Porter
This Year's Love
as Tourist
Auton
as Dr. Daniel Matthews
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
as Andrew Powell
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
as Andrew Powell
Highgate House of Horror
as Mr Dandridge