- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- June 28, 1963
- Place of Birth
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
Peter Baynham
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 …
Filmography
movieRon's Gone Wrong
2021 · Executive Producer, Writer
movieBorat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision
2021 · Writer, Executive Producer
movieBorat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2020 · Screenplay, Executive Producer
movieAlan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
2017 · Himself
movieBob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
2016
movieGrimsby
2016 · Traffic Warden, Screenplay, Producer
movieAlan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013 · Writer, Executive Producer
movieBright Day
2012 · Daddy
movieHotel Transylvania
2012 · Screenplay
movieThe Dictator
2012 · Executive Producer
movieArthur Christmas
2011 · Elf (voice), Screenplay, Co-Executive Producer
movieArthur
2011 · Screenplay
movieBrüno
2009 · Story, Associate Producer
movieBorat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2006 · Screenplay, Story
tvI Am Not an Animal
2004 · Director, Writer, Creator
movieShaun of the Dead
2004 · Man in Street (uncredited)
movieAnglian Lives: Alan Partridge
2003 · Ray Woollard, Writer, Associate Producer
movieCruise of the Gods
2002 · Writer
movieCombat Sheep
2001 · Writer
movieThe Junkies
2001 · Jackie
tvJam
2000 · Writer
tvBig Train
1998 · Writer
movieStill Crazy
1998 · Kevin
tvBob and Margaret
1998
tvI'm Alan Partridge
1997 · Hugh Morris, Writer, Producer, Creator
movieIntroducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest
1997 · Ross Woollard
tvBrass Eye
1997 · Sven Yabbsley, Welsh Naval Officer, Additional Writing
movieLee and Herring Live
1996 · Peter
The Saturday Night Armistice
tvThe Saturday Night Armistice
1995 · , Writer
tvFist of Fun
1995 · , Writer
tvThe Day Today
1994 · Writer
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
tvTerry Wogan's Friday Night
1992 · Script
tvThe Bill
1984 · Mickey Tulliver