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Ian Hislop

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Acting credits

37

Established

Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

0.4

Low visibility

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Movies: 24Series: 24Crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 119805

IMDb ID: nm0386810

Known for: Acting

Born: July 13, 1960

Age: 65

Place of birth: Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1967 - 2025

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 6.45

Wikidata: Q1655550

Other jobs

Writer (9)Additional Writing (1)Creator (1)

Biography

Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, and has been a team captain on the BBC quiz show Have I Got News for You since the programme's inception in 1990.

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Movies

Movies

Movie credits linked with Ian Hislop.

A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary poster

A Very British Sex Scandal: The Love Child & the Secretary

as Self

2024 Movie
Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History poster

Ian Hislop's Fake News: A True History

as Presenter

2019 Movie
Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row poster

Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row

as Himself - Presenter

2017 Movie
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4) poster
7.0

The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)

as Self

2016 Movie
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy poster
8.0

50 Years of BBC Two Comedy

as Self

2014 Movie
The Wipers Times poster
6.3

The Wipers Times

Writer

2013 Movie
Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good poster

Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

as Self - Presenter

2011 Movie
Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard poster

Ian Hislop's Changing of the Bard

as Presenter

2009 Movie
A Bunch of Amateurs poster
5.7

A Bunch of Amateurs

Writer

2008 Movie
Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails poster

Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails

as Self - Presenter

2008 Movie
Scouting for Boys poster

Scouting for Boys

as Himself (Presenter)

2007 Movie
Best Ever Spitting Image poster

Best Ever Spitting Image

as Self

2006 Movie
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2 poster

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2

as Self (archive footage)

2005 Movie
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters poster

Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters

2003 Movie
The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' poster

The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You'

as Self - Team Captain

2002 Movie
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe poster

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe

as Self

2002 Movie
Gobble poster

Gobble

Writer

1997 Movie
Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video poster

Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video

as Self

1997 Movie
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook poster

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

as Self

1995 Movie
Amnesty International's Big 30 poster
4.0

Amnesty International's Big 30

as Self

1991 Movie
Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show poster

Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show

Writer

1988 Movie
Spitting Image: A Non-Denominational Holiday Special poster

Spitting Image: A Non-Denominational Holiday Special

Writer

1987 Movie
Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards poster

Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards

Writer

1987 Movie
Spitting Image: Down And Out In The White House poster

Spitting Image: Down And Out In The White House

Writer

1986 Movie
Series

Series

Series credits linked with Ian Hislop.

What's the Monarchy For? poster

What's the Monarchy For?

as Self • 2 eps

2025 Series
Have I Got News for You poster
6.0

Have I Got News for You

Writer • 10 eps

2024 Series
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story poster
6.8

Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story

as Self • 1 eps

2022 Series
Ian Hislop's Trains That Changed the World poster
6.0

Ian Hislop's Trains That Changed the World

as Self - Presenter • 4 eps

2021 Series
Years and Years poster
7.6

Years and Years

as Ian Hislop • 1 eps

2019 Series
Peston poster

Peston

as Themselves - Guest • 1 eps

2018 Series
A House Through Time poster
5.0

A House Through Time

as Self • 1 eps

2018 Series
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks poster

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

as Self • 1 eps

2017 Series
Ian Hislop's Olden Days poster
6.0

Ian Hislop's Olden Days

as Self - Presenter • 3 eps

2014 Series
Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip poster

Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip

as Self - Presenter • 3 eps

2012 Series
The Island poster
8.7

The Island

as Marcus Fielding • 26 eps

2010 Series
The One Show poster
4.4

The One Show

as Self - Guest • 1 eps

2006 Series
Who Do You Think You Are? poster
6.7

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self • 1 eps

2004 Series
My Dad's the Prime Minister poster
5.5

My Dad's the Prime Minister

Creator

2003 Series
Parkinson poster

Parkinson

as Self • 1 eps

1998 Series
Harry Enfield and Chums poster
7.1

Harry Enfield and Chums

Additional Writing • 11 eps

1994 Series
Room 101 poster
6.4

Room 101

as Self • 2 eps

1994 Series
Murder Most Horrid poster
6.8

Murder Most Horrid

Writer • 4 eps

1991 Series
Have I Got News for You poster
7.1

Have I Got News for You

as Self - Team Captain • 636 eps

1990 Series
Great Railway Journeys poster
7.0

Great Railway Journeys

as Self - Presenter • 1 eps

1980 Series
Question Time poster
5.5

Question Time

as Self - Panellist • 14 eps

1979 Series
The South Bank Show poster
5.6

The South Bank Show

as Self • 1 eps

1978 Series
Have I Got a Bit More News for You poster
7.1

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Self - Team Captain • 346 eps

Series
Omnibus poster
7.2

Omnibus

as Self • 1 eps

1967 Series
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