66-617: Jeremy Dyson (born 14 June 1966) is a British author, musician and screenwriter who, along with Mark Gatiss , Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith , is one of the League of Gentlemen . He also created and co-wrote the West End show Ghost Stories and its film adaptation . Dyson was born in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England, son of Elaine Saville and Melvin Dyson. He has one older brother, Andrew Dyson, and
132-414: A British Academy Television Award , a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux . In 2005, the film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse was released, to generally positive reviews. Shearsmith and Pemberton reunited in 2009 to create a similarly dark BBC sitcom, Psychoville , which featured an episode guest-starring Gatiss. The three reunited again in 2012 to film
198-1199: A Primetime Emmy Award , a Peabody Award , and two Laurence Olivier Awards . Gatiss co-created, co-wrote and acted in BBC comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2002). He co-created and portrayed Mycroft Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017) and Frank Renfield in BBC / Netflix miniseries Dracula (2020). He also wrote several episodes of Doctor Who during Moffat's tenure as showrunner, as well as two episodes during Russell T Davies ' earlier tenure. His other TV roles include Tycho Nestoris in Game of Thrones (2014–2017), Stephen Gardiner in Wolf Hall (2015), and Peter Mandelson in Coalition (2015). He has acted in films such as Victor Frankenstein (2015), Denial (2016), Christopher Robin (2018), The Favourite (2018), The Father (2020), Operation Mincemeat (2021), and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). On stage, Gatiss played Menenius in
264-804: A civil partnership with actor Ian Hallard in 2008 in Middle Temple , in the City of London. Gatiss once built a Victorian era laboratory in his north London home, as the fulfilment of a childhood dream. Gatiss is an atheist . The University of Huddersfield awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters in 2003. The Mezzotint (2021) Count Magnus (2022) Lot No. 249 (2023) Books Doctor Who novels Doctor Who anthology contributions The League of Gentlemen Lucifer Box novels Miscellaneous non-fiction Miscellaneous fiction Audio plays Doctor Who (and related) Ghost Stories (play) Ghost Stories
330-612: A BBC One serial by his fellow Doctor Who scriptwriter Steven Moffat . In 2008, he appeared in Clone as Colonel Black. Gatiss also wrote, co-produced and acted in the BBC Four ghost story Crooked House (2008). He appeared in the stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar 's All About My Mother at the Old Vic in London from 25 August-24 November 2007. He won much critical acclaim for his portrayal of
396-635: A Rabbit – short-listed for the Macmillan Silver Pen award – and The Cranes That Build The Cranes which won the 2010 Edge Hill award. Five stories from Never Trust a Rabbit were read on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. In 2023, following the closure of the NatWest bank, the Leeds location of the Cash-Point Oracle from Never Trust a Rabbit was given historical landmark status by Google. His novel What Happens Now
462-622: A West End stage. Gatiss appeared as the Prince Regent (later George IV) in the eight-part historical fiction television drama series Taboo (2017) first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2017 and in the United States on FX on 10 January 2017. In May 2017, Gatiss began a recurring role on The Secret History of Hollywood , a series of podcast biopics on Golden Age-era Hollywood. Its 11-part series, Shadows tells
528-469: A childhood interest in the BBC science-fiction show Doctor Who and devoted much of his early writing to the series, despite its 1989 cancellation. Gatiss's earliest published work as a professional writer was a sequence of novels in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series of continuation stories and novels. In these works, he tried to correct the problems which had led to the show's decline in
594-641: A column written under the pseudonym "Sam Kisgart," which he was originally credited as in the Doctor Who Unbound audio play Sympathy for the Devil for his role as the Master . "Sam Kisgart" is an anagram of "Mark Gatiss", and is also the name under which he was credited for his cameo in Psychoville . Novels Gatiss has written several non-fiction works, including a biography of the film director James Whale and
660-558: A drama school which he attended after finishing school and having spent a gap year travelling around Europe. The League of Gentlemen began as a stage act in 1995, which won the Perrier Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997. In the same year the show transferred to BBC Radio 4 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen , and later arrived on television on BBC Two in 1999. The television programme has earned Gatiss and his colleagues
726-573: A homage to 1970s' Hammer Horrors. Gatiss has also made three credited appearances in Doctor Who . In 2007, he played Professor Lazarus in " The Lazarus Experiment ". In 2011, he returned in the Series 6 episode " The Wedding of River Song " as a character known as Gantok, and in the 2017 Christmas special " Twice Upon A Time " as "The Captain". Also in 2007, he appeared as Robert Louis Stevenson in Jekyll ,
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#1733085849639792-401: A learning exercise. His other early contributions to the Doctor Who franchise included four novels , two audio plays for BBV and two audio plays for Big Finish Productions . Gatiss has written nine episodes for the 2005 revival of the show. His first, " The Unquiet Dead ," was the third episode of the revived series in 2005; the second, " The Idiot's Lantern ," aired the following year in
858-402: A member of Leeds band, Flowers for Agatha in the 1980s. Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss ( / ˈ ɡ eɪ t ɪ s / ; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. He is best known for his work in television acting in and co-creating shows with Steven Moffat . Gatiss has received several awards including a BAFTA TV Award ,
924-689: A new play by Steven Moffat at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester , starring Amanda Abbington , Frances Barber and Reece Shearsmith . The play transferred to London's West End Criterion Theatre in January 2023. In February 2023, Gatiss directed The Way Old Friends Do a new play by Ian Hallard at the Birmingham Rep . This also transferred to the Criterion in August. In April 2022, Gatiss starred as Lawrence in
990-650: A new production of The Wind in the Willows shown on BBC One on 1 January 2007. He wrote and starred in the BBC Four docudrama The Worst Journey in the World , based on the memoir by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard . Gatiss appears frequently in BBC Radio productions, including the science fiction comedy Nebulous and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes story The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith . In 2009, he
1056-502: A series of sketches for the fourth series of CBBC show Horrible Histories . Outside The League , Gatiss' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of Randall & Hopkirk and script editing the popular sketch show Little Britain in 2003, making guest appearances in both. In 2001 he guested in Spaced as a villainous government employee modelled on the character of Agent Smith from The Matrix film series. In
1122-608: A tour de force. This is a viscerally repulsive depiction of the gap between public and private life." That same year he played a supporting role as John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in the Yorgos Lanthimos directed black comedy The Favourite (2018) starring Olivia Colman , Emma Stone , and Rachel Weisz . Also in 2018 he acted in the children's film Christopher Robin starring Ewan McGregor and The Mercy with Colin Firth . In 2020 he acted opposite Anthony Hopkins in
1188-417: A website featuring ghostly pictures, scienceofghosts.com . He has recorded interviews with three people who claim to have had a supernatural experience. Each story seems to hinge on guilty feelings. As each interview is played back, the story is re-enacted on stage. The stories are recounted by a night watchman, a teen driver and a businessman awaiting his first child. These stories are then drawn together at
1254-639: A younger sister, Jayne Dyson. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, now The Grammar School at Leeds . He studied Philosophy at the University of Leeds and later completed an MA in screenwriting at the Northern Film School . He lived in Highbury , London , but now lives in Ilkley , West Yorkshire . Jeremy is also Jewish, raised in a kosher home; though no longer practising, it often appears in his work. Dyson
1320-528: Is a one-act horror play written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman . The play was conceived after Nyman walked past the theatre which had hosted The Woman in Black for over 30 years, and he realised there hadn't been a horror play produced since that time. He contacted his childhood friend Jeremy Dyson with the idea of a new horror play like The Vagina Monologues , with three narrators on stage telling ghost stories. The two were commissioned by Sean Holmes ,
1386-465: Is about a pair of lowly office workers who become unwittingly embroiled in a deadly criminal conspiracy. Its first series was broadcast in 2013. He has written and acted as script supervisor for the BBC sketch comedy series Tracey Ullman's Show and Tracey Breaks the News starring Tracey Ullman . Alongside his writing work, Dyson plays keyboards in a pop band called Rudolf Rocker, and has previously been
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#17330858496391452-408: Is the co-creator of the West End play Ghost Stories , and a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen, the latter along with fellow performers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith, all of whom he met while they were studying at Bretton Hall drama school. The League of Gentlemen initially began as a stage act in 1995, which was then transferred to BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as On
1518-657: The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor . Filming got underway in Belgium in April 2024 on Bookish , which Gatiss co-wrote and stars. He will also be appearing in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning , set for debut in 2025. At the age of eleven, Gatiss won a school literary competition with a short science fiction story "The Anti-Noise Machine", published in a booklet by Darlington Borough Council. Gatiss had
1584-661: The second series . Although he acted in the third series and proposed an ultimately unproduced episode for the fourth , involving Nazis and the British Museum, it took until 2010 for Gatiss to return as writer. He wrote " Victory of the Daleks " for that year's fifth series and went on to contribute " Night Terrors " for series 6 , " Cold War " and " The Crimson Horror " for series 7 and " Robot of Sherwood " for series 8 . He also wrote " Sleep No More " for series 9 and " Empress of Mars " for series 10 . He has also contributed to
1650-535: The supernatural fiction of English writer Robert Aickman and has adapted Aickman's work in a number of media. With Andy Nyman , he co-wrote and co-directed the supernatural-themed stage production Ghost Stories . The play broke box office records at the Liverpool Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith theatres, where it had its first run between February and April 2010. It transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in
1716-599: The BBC's 2015 series Wolf Hall , Gatiss played King Henry VIII 's secretary Stephen Gardiner . He also appeared in Channel 4's Coalition in 2015. In 2016, he played Harold in the groundbreaking American play The Boys in the Band, play at Park Theatre (London) opposite his husband Ian Hallard . They made history when the play transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in 2017 as the first married gay couple to appear together on
1782-618: The Lyric Hammersmith, marking the end of co-director Holmes' tenure at the theatre. The production transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre from 4 October to 4 January 2020 before embarking on a UK tour from January 2020 at The Alexandra, Birmingham . On 27 March 2020 it was announced the remainder of the tour had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2019, the playtext was published by Nick Hern Books . In January 2025,
1848-450: The Moon into a television film of the same name for the BBC, also playing Professor Cavor. He also made a three-part BBC documentary series entitled A History of Horror , a personal exploration of the history of horror cinema. This was followed on 30 October 2012 with a look at European horror with the documentary Horror Europa . In March 2010, he was a guest on Private Passions ,
1914-725: The Potato Men (2004) and had minor roles in Birthday Girl (2001), Bright Young Things (2003), Match Point (2005) and Starter for 10 (2006). The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse , a film based on the television series, co-written by and starring Gatiss, was released in June 2005. He also plays the recurring character of Gold in the audio revival of Sapphire and Steel produced by Big Finish Productions . Gatiss also appeared in Edgar Wright 's fake trailer for Grindhouse , Don't ,
1980-534: The Town with the League of Gentlemen , and then became a television series on BBC Two in 1999. The latter saw Dyson and his colleagues awarded a British Academy Television Award , a Royal Television Society Award , and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux . Dyson has written several books including Bright Darkness: Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film , a non-fiction guide to horror films, and two collections of short stories entitled Never Trust
2046-595: The West End in June 2010, where it ran for thirteen months. In January 2011, he returned to the Lyric Hammersmith with Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales , the first stage adaptation of Roald Dahl 's short stories Tales of the Unexpected . A film adaptation of Ghost Stories , directed by Dyson and Nyman, and starring Nyman, premiered in 2017. Dyson was script editor on the BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Mans written by James Corden , Mathew Baynton and Tom Basden . The show
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2112-624: The biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3 . From December 2010 to March 2011, Gatiss was playing the role of Bernard in Alan Ayckbourn 's Season's Greetings at the Royal National Theatre in London alongside Catherine Tate . In December 2011, he appeared in an episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage in an episode entitled The Science of Christmas , alongside Brian Cox , Robin Ince and Richard Dawkins . In January 2012, he took
2178-488: The cast of the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus as Senator of Rome, Menenius . The play went from 6 December 2013 through 13 February 2014. For his performance, Gatiss received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role . On 25 December 2013, a version of the ghost story " The Tractate Middoth " by M. R. James and adapted by Gatiss was broadcast on BBC Two as part of
2244-532: The classic science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment . A second series of Nighty Night and the new comedy-drama Funland , the latter co-written by his League cohort Jeremy Dyson , both featured Gatiss and aired on BBC Three in the autumn of 2005. He appeared as Johnnie Cradock , alongside Nighty Night star Julia Davis as Fanny Cradock , in Fear of Fanny on BBC Four in October 2006, and featured as Ratty in
2310-508: The documentary M.R. James: Ghost Writer , which Gatiss also presented. The documentary followed Gatiss's directorial debut with an adaption of one of James's stories, "The Tractate Middoth", for BBC Two, which was broadcast on Christmas Day 2013. His first non- Doctor Who novel, The Vesuvius Club , was published in 2004, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Newcomer in the 2006 British Book Awards . A follow-up, The Devil in Amber ,
2376-419: The end of the play asks the audience to "keep the secrets of Ghost Stories" so that new audiences do not have the experience spoiled with any prior information about the play. Reviews of the show have confined themselves to outlining the basic structure of the plot, which revolves around Dr. Goodman, a Professor of Parapsychology ( Andy Nyman ) delivering a lecture on ghost stories. In the lecture, he discusses
2442-488: The end, with a twist, as it becomes clear that the Professor is a participant in the stories and not simply a narrator. Reviewing the 2010 production, The Guardian called the stories "as substantial and troubling as the fake ectoplasm manifested by a dodgy medium" while, in the same newspaper, a real-life psychic ghost hunter was quoted as saying the play "was refreshing, and made me jump, several times." After revisiting
2508-491: The film The Father based on the Florian Zeller play Le Père . In October 2021, Gatiss wrote and played Jacob Marley in a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens playing at both Nottingham Playhouse and Alexandra Palace in 2021. He appeared as a modern-day incarnation/descendant of Count Dracula's servile companion Renfield in the series of his own co-creation, Dracula in
2574-472: The fourth. He also co-wrote "Many Happy Returns," a mini-episode released in late December 2013 which acts as a prelude to the third series, with Steven Moffat ; the episode " The Sign of Three " with Moffat and Steve Thompson ; and " The Abominable Bride ", a special episode released in early January 2016, with Moffat. Finally, he co-wrote the final episode of Sherlock, " The Final Problem ", with Moffat, released in January 2017. In December 2013, Gatiss joined
2640-466: The franchise outside the main show. His early work (see above) was primarily Doctor Who expanded media. Gatiss wrote and performed in the comedy spoof sketches The Web of Caves , The Kidnappers and The Pitch of Fear for the BBC's " Doctor Who Night " in 1999 with David Walliams . He penned the 2013 docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time , a drama depicting the origins of the series, to celebrate
2706-554: The late 1980s. The first television scripts Gatiss wrote were for a BBV direct-to-video series called " P.R.O.B.E. " Gatiss's four scripts each featured a different actor who had played Doctor Who ' s titular character of the Doctor : Jon Pertwee , Peter Davison , Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy . The videos have since been released on DVD despite Gatiss once commenting that he would not authorise their re-release, as he regarded them as
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2772-466: The latter, he was two years ahead of Paul Magrs , who also went on to write Doctor Who fiction. Gatiss then studied Theatre Arts at Bretton Hall College , an arts college affiliated to the University of Leeds . Gatiss is a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen (along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith , Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson ). He first met his co-writers and performers at Bretton Hall , Yorkshire,
2838-421: The licentious Brabbins and Fyffe, parodying Flanders and Swann, accident-prone historian Dennis Lincoln Park, disapproving lingerie saleswomen Lisa and Yvonne and the 'Kill Them' sketches, among others. He was the script editor of BBC Two sitcom Grandma's House (2010), BBC Three's Dead Boss (2012) and Walking and Talking (2012) for Sky Atlantic. In 2010 his short story "The Bear" – a story about identity –
2904-596: The long-running A Ghost Story for Christmas series. It starred Sacha Dhawan , John Castle , Louise Jameson , Una Stubbs , David Ryall , Eleanor Bron , Nick Burns and Roy Barraclough . It was followed on 25 December 2013 by a screening on BBC2 of a new documentary by Gatiss titled M. R. James: Ghost Writer . The programme saw Gatiss explore the work of James and look at how his work still inspires contemporary horror today. He appeared in season four of Game of Thrones in 2014 playing Tycho Nestoris and reprised this role in season five and season seven . In
2970-619: The newly appointed artistic director the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in London, to write the play. The play premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in February 2010 before being transferred for a longer run at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. It then transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End where it played from June 2010 to July 2011. The show re-opened at the Arts Theatre in February 2014 and ran until March 2015. In 2015,
3036-414: The play in 2019, the newspaper concluded it had become more elegant over the years, but remained "more playful than petrifying." Time Out called the play a "harrowing, 80-minute nightmare thrill." The casts and creative teams for the original runs and UK revivals of the play were: Lyric Hammersmith 2010 2014 2019 2020 The cast and creative team for the original Australian tour of
3102-564: The production will tour the UK again, opening at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley from 17 January. The play is notable for running only 80 minutes (with no interval) and for its publicized warnings advising against anyone under the age of 15 attending. The marketing of the show outside the theatre is unusual in that there are no production photographs, just stills and video monitors showing the shocked reactions of audience members. An announcement at
3168-796: The revival of William Shakespeare 's Coriolanus (2013) for which he earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. He took on the role of King George III in a revival of the Alan Bennett play The Madness of George III (2018). He portrayed Sir John Gielgud in the Jack Thorne play The Motive and the Cue (2023) for which he earned the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor . His other theatre roles include in The Recruiting Officer (2012), The Vote (2015), and A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2021). Gatiss
3234-707: The role of Brazen in The Recruiting Officer at the Donmar Theatre , London. From 18 October – 24 November that year he was Charles I in the Hampstead Theatre production of 55 Days by Howard Brenton , a play dramatising the military coup that killed a King and forged a Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell . With Steven Moffat , with whom Gatiss worked on Doctor Who and Jekyll , he also co-created and co-produced Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman . He also portrayed Mycroft Holmes in
3300-542: The same year he appeared in several editions of the documentary series SF:UK . Other acting appearances include the comedy-drama In the Red ( BBC Two , 1998), the macabre sitcom Nighty Night ( BBC Three , 2003), Agatha Christie's Marple as Ronald Hawes in "The Murder at the Vicarage", a guest appearance in the Vic & Bob series Catterick in 2004 and the live 2005 remake of
3366-493: The series. Premiering in 2010, the series is a modernised adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories, in which Gatiss plays the role of Sherlock's brother Mycroft . Gatiss has influence on all episodes as producer and he has written four episodes, one for each series: the finale, " The Great Game ," for the first series, " The Hounds of Baskerville " for the second, " The Empty Hearse " for the third and " The Six Thatchers " for
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#17330858496393432-404: The seventh series opener of Inside No. 9 . In April 2023, Gatiss played as Sir John Gielgud in The Motive and the Cue , a new play written by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes at London's National Theatre . The story of how Richard Burton (played by Johnny Flynn ) and Gielgud clashed as they staged Hamlet on Broadway in 1964 , the play has received good reviews, particularly
3498-417: The show was produced at the Sydney Opera House before going on an Australian National Tour concluding at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia in October 2016. The play was also performed in Canada (2011), Russia (2012), Peru (2015), China (2018), Finland (2018) and The Netherlands (2019). In April 2019, the original creative team came together again to stage the production for an extended run at
3564-412: The show's fiftieth anniversary. It ended with a cameo by Gatiss's League of Gentleman castmate Reece Shearsmith , portraying Patrick Troughton , who played the Second Doctor . A "Making Of" feature about this programme, narrated by Gatiss, was made available on the BBC Red Button service, and also posted on the BBC 's official YouTube channel. He has written for Doctor Who Magazine , including
3630-492: The story of Val Lewton 's life and career, with Gatiss providing the introductions for each episode. In November 2018, Gatiss portrayed the lead, King George III in a revival of the Alan Bennet play The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse . The production was broadcast live to cinemas as part of National Theatre Live . Kate Maltby of The Guardian wrote of his performance, "Productions of The Madness of George III live or die by their star, and Gatiss delivers
3696-434: The third and final episode, "The Dark Compass". In 2017, Gatiss and Steven Moffat re-teamed to write three episodes for TV miniseries Dracula . The series premiered on BBC One on 1 January 2020, and was broadcast over three consecutive days. The three episodes were then released on Netflix on 4 January 2020. In June 2021, a new adaptation of The Ghosts by Antonia Barber, written and directed by Gatiss for Sky One ,
3762-526: The transgender character Agrado. In the 2008 English language re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film Free Jimmy , Gatiss voiced the character of "Jakki," a heavy-set, bizarrely dressed biker member of the "Lappish Mafia." In this his voice is used along with the other actors of League of Gentlemen such as Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. The dialogue was written by Simon Pegg and other actors included Pegg himself, Woody Harrelson and David Tennant , who worked with Gatiss on Doctor Who . He
3828-449: The two leads. Leonie Cooper of Time Out wrote of his performance, "Mark Gatiss launches himself into a condescending but sensitive Gielgud...[who] is just as impressive, his uncanny Gielgud manifesting a man in flux, as a new era of performance threatens to subsume his traditional take on stagecraft. Gatiss's Gielgud is lonely and lost, but still more than capable of getting one over on the wayward Burton." For his performance Gatiss won
3894-413: Was The Man in Black when BBC Radio 7 revived the character (originally played by Valentine Dyall and Edward de Souza ) to introduce a series of five creepy audio dramas. He is also involved with theatre, having penned the play The Teen People in the early 1990s, and appeared in a successful run of the play 'Art' in 2003 at the Whitehall Theatre in London. In film, he has starred in Sex Lives of
3960-429: Was announced. It broadcast on 24 December. In 2021 he acted in the British war film Operation Mincemeat portraying Ivor Montagu . That same year he acted in Locked Down , The Road Dance , and The Sparks Brothers . He joined the Mission Impossible franchise acting in action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) starring Tom Cruise . In May 2022, Gatiss directed The Unfriend ,
4026-637: Was born in Sedgefield , County Durham, England, to Winifred Rose (née O'Kane, 1931–2003) and Maurice Gatiss (1931–2021). He grew up opposite the Victorian psychiatric hospital Winterton, and later in Trimdon , before his father, a colliery engineer, took a job as engineer at the School Aycliffe Mental Hospital in Heighington . His family background is working class. His passions included watching Doctor Who and Hammer Horror films on television, reading Sherlock Holmes and H. G. Wells , and collecting fossils. All those interests have influenced his creative work. One of his early forays into theatre
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#17330858496394092-483: Was in Darlington in March 1983, playing Dad, in The Waiting Room by Tony Stowers, a macabre and surreal Pinteresque comedy, which explores a disintegrating family unit. In July of the same year, he would have acted in Stowers' follow-up, A Sense of Insecurity , but was unable to take the role because his father insisted he take his exams instead. Gatiss attended Heighington Church of England Primary School , and Woodham Comprehensive School in Newton Aycliffe . At
4158-437: Was published on 6 April 2006 to favourable reviews and was nominated for the Goss first novel award. He co-created (with Simon Ashdown ) the BAFTA-nominated television series Funland , which aired on BBC Three , and wrote the Billy Goats Gruff episode of the BBC's 2008 series Fairy Tales . He worked as script editor and writer on BBC1's BAFTA-award-winning The Armstrong & Miller Show (2007–2010), where he created
4224-429: Was read as part of the Twenty Minutes strand on BBC Radio 3 . Due to Dyson's self-confessed lack of acting skills, he does not appear in The League of Gentlemen television series or any of its offshoots, apart from very brief cameos. He worked as the assistant producer instead. In the film adaptation he is played by Michael Sheen , although Dyson appears in the background of a few scenes. Dyson has an interest in
4290-431: Was released on 6 November 2006. It transports the main character, Lucifer Box , from the Edwardian era in the first book to the roaring Twenties/Thirties. A third and final Lucifer Box novel, Black Butterfly , was published on 3 November 2008 by Simon & Schuster . Gatiss was featured on The Independent on Sunday ' s Pink List of influential gay people in the UK in 2010, 2011 and 2014. He entered into
4356-429: Was scheduled to perform in Darker Shores by Michael Punter, a ghost story for all the family, at Hampstead Theatre 3 December 2009 – 16 January 2010 but had to withdraw after a serious family illness. Tom Goodman-Hill took over his role. In 2010, he portrayed Malcolm McLaren in the BBC drama Worried About the Boy which focused on the life and career of Boy George . He adapted H. G. Wells ' The First Men in
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