Ricky Gervais
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Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Born in Reading, England, Ricky Gervais worked in the music industry as a radio DJ, band manager, and music supervisor before getting into comedy. As a writer, he provided scripts for the U.K. television series Bruiser and The Sketch Show. As an actor, he was seen quite a bit on The 11 O'Clock Show and provided the voice of the Penguin in the animated show Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe. In 2000, he had his own show called Meet Ricky Gervais. On the big screen, Gervais appeared as the bouncer in the U.K. comedy Dog Eat Dog. He's most known, however, as the writer/director/star of the hit BBC comedy series The Office. He plays David Brent, regional manager of the Wernham Hogg paper company in the London industrial suburb of Slough. A brilliant observation of the contemporary workplace, the show has won a variety of awards over in Britain. Gervais received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2003. Projects for 2004 include voice work on the animated film Valiant and producing an Americanized version of The Office with director Greg Daniels. He created and starred in Extras, another bitingly funny TV series, this one about a struggling actor. In 2008 he had a leading role for the first time in an American film, the supernatural comedy Ghost Town. The next year he wrote, directed, and starred in the acerbic comedy The Invention of Lying. He earned a ton of buzz in 2010 for his prickly hosting of the Golden Globes, a job he would repeat the next two years as well. In 2011 he debuted a new show he created with actor Warwick Davis, Life's Too Short.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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91% | The Willoughbys |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Sesame Street: Awesome Alphabet Collection |
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— | 2019 |
47% | Ricky Gervais: Humanity |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Blazing Samurai |
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— | 2018 |
58% | David Brent: Life on the Road |
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$2.4M | 2017 |
67% | George Michael: Freedom |
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— | 2017 |
93% | The Little Prince |
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— | 2016 |
17% | Special Correspondents |
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— | 2016 |
47% | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb |
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$81.6M | 2014 |
80% | Muppets Most Wanted |
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$46.5M | 2014 |
44% | The Unbelievers |
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— | 2013 |
35% | Escape From Planet Earth |
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$54.8M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Talking Funny |
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— | 2011 |
55% | Cemetery Junction |
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— | 2010 |
56% | The Invention of Lying |
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$18.5M | 2009 |
44% | Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian |
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$177.2M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Ricky Gervais: Out of England - The Stand-Up Special |
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— | 2008 |
85% | Ghost Town |
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$13.3M | 2008 |
76% | Stardust |
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$38.3M | 2007 |
43% | Night at the Museum |
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$249.3M | 2006 |
52% | For Your Consideration |
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$5.5M | 2006 |
67% | Mrs. Henderson Presents |
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$11M | 2006 |
32% | Valiant |
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$19.4M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Ricky Gervais Live: Animals |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire and the Legend of the Lost Tribe |
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— | 2002 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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75% |
After Life
2019-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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50% |
Golden Globes
1998
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
2012-2019
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No Score Yet |
Child Support
2018
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0% |
The Alec Baldwin Show
2018-2019
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Harry
2016-2018
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38% |
Maya & Marty
2016
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No Score Yet |
Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter
2015
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89% |
Galavant
2015-2016
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60% |
Derek
2013-2015
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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53% |
Life's Too Short
2011
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No Score Yet |
Sunday Morning
2011-2018
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77% |
An Idiot Abroad
2010-2012
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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81% |
The Office
2005-2013
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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75% |
Trust Us With Your Life
2012
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No Score Yet |
The Ricky Gervais Show
2010-2012
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92% |
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000-2020
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No Score Yet |
Lass es, Larry!
2000-2017
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33% |
The Marriage Ref
2010-2011
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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94% |
Louie
2010-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
60 Minutes
1992
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No Score Yet |
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
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88% |
Extras
2005-2007
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85% |
Alias
2001-2006
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96% |
The Office (UK)
2001-2003
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No Score Yet |
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
2016
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Quotes from Ricky Gervais' Characters
Dr. McPhee: | It really glows! |
Dominic aka Number Two: | The world capital of comedy...Berlin, Germany. |
WWII nurse: | Come back soon. |
Bertram Pincus: | What a terrible thing to say in a hospital. |
Bertram Pincus: | Did anything usual happen during my operation? |
surgeon: | You... uh... died for seven minutes. |
Bertram Pincus: | I died! For seven minutes! |
surgeon: | We brought you right back. People die all the time. |
Bertram Pincus: | Yeah, but it's usually just once... at the end. |
Bertram Pincus: | Dr. Prashar - you're from a... scary country, right? |
Dr. Prashar: | ...I'm from India... |
Bertram Pincus: | But, you're not... Christian, like us? |
Dr. Prashar: | ...I'm a Hindu... |
Bertram Pincus: | Yeah. So, um, how would you extract information from a hostile? |
Dr. Prashar: | Well... as a... Hindu person... I would just... ask him... politely... |
Bertram Pincus: | Listen, our time together, as we both know, has been rather unpleasant. But I will say this: even though you're a vulgar man - boorish, distasteful, uncouth, uneducated, *stupid* - at least... [long pause] |
Frank Herlihy: | You gonna finish? |
Bertram Pincus: | Done. [shrugs] |
Bertram Pincus: | [pointing at the dog] When did you get your horse? |
Gwen: | A couple of months ago. I found him at this shelter in Long Island. They were gonna put him down. |
Bertram Pincus: | Then they lost their nerve, did they? |
Bertram Pincus: | You lied. Why would you do that? |
Frank Herlihy: | Because you're a heartless son-of-a-bitch who doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone but himself. She's already had one of those. |
Mark Bellison: | The world is going to end unless we have sex right now. |
Argonaut: | Activated! |
Argonaut: | This is not a prank |
Argonaut: | This is not a prank. |
Bertram Pincus: | I love you! |
Gwen: | Don't call me! |
Bertram Pincus: | All work and no play makes Jack- a vital member of society. |