Richard Ayoade
Also Known As: Richard Ellef Ayoade, Ayoade, ריצ'ארד איואדי
Biography: Richard Ellef Ayoade was born in London in 1977. He is a a multi-award winning British comedian, actor, broadcaster, filmmaker, author, narrator & film buff. The success of Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place (which he co-wrote, directed and starred in) was followed by his BAFTA award winning role in The IT Crowd, and numerous other TV credits. In 2010, Ayoade made his debut directorial feature, Submarine, a BAFTA nominated, coming-of-age comedy-drama he adapted from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel of the same name. His second feature film in 2013, the black comedy thriller The Double, was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella The Double; it was written by Ayoade & Avi Korine. His first book, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey, was published in October 2014. Richard is married to actress / producer Lydia Fox & they reside in England.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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Birthday: May 23, 1977
Age: 47 years old
Gender: Male
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The Semplica Girl Diaries
Overview: Family man Lloyd Turner (Ayoade) is facing up to his 40th birthday with the prospect of a new decade mouldering in debt and mediocrity. After attending yet another party hosted by the rich parents of his daughter’s friend, and in a bid to give his daughters the happiness he thinks they deserve, Lloyd and his wife Sarah (Fox) makes the financially crippling decision to invest in what has become the elite’s new favourite status symbol: a set of ‘Semplica Girls’ to decorate their front lawn. Yet when Lloyd’s youngest daughter, Ida, discovers what’s happening in her name, on her very own doorstep, she threatens to plunge her family into a chaos deeper than they’ve ever known…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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AD/BC: A Rock Opera
Overview: An all-singing, all-dancing, star-spangled musical leap around the biblical story of the Nativity, set in 1972. With a comic twist, this familiar story is brought to life through the eyes of the innkeeper. Despairing after a bad year, he contemplates suicide but his attempt is stalled by a voice from above who points out that King Herod is coming to town.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-21
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Overview: The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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The Bad Guys
Overview: When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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The Watch
Overview: Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-26
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Overview: A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-20
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Hello, Friend
Overview: A satirical look at modern technology.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-02
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The Boxtrolls
Overview: An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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The Rat Catcher
Overview: In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights
Overview: Documentary of the 1997 Footlights, the theatrical club of Cambridge University.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me
Overview: Eric and Ernie devotee Miranda Hart celebrates the incomparable comedy duo as she takes a look back at their top twenty greatest TV moments, ranked by comedy actors and comedians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Overview: Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-14
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The Bad Guys 2
Overview: The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-30
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Bunny and the Bull
Overview: A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Overview: This documentary showcases a number of new clips which have recently come to light from sketches which were thought to have been lost forever, some not seen for over 50 years, plus rare footage of routines performed in Australia when Cook and Moore made two episodes of their show, Not Only... But Also..., for the country back in 1971. Rob Brydon narrates this very special programme as Pete and Dud fans, friends and colleagues watch these newly discovered clips in the studio for the very first time. The programme includes contributions from Not Only... But Also... producer Dick Clement, Pete and Dud collaborator Barry Humphries, and long-time fans Richard Ayoade, Josie Lawrence, Will Sharpe and Ronnie Wood as they enjoy the sketches and reflect on the career of one of Britain's best-loved comedy partnerships.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Early Man
Overview: Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
Genres: Family Comedy Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-26
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The IT Crowd Manual
Overview: This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-04
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The Souvenir
Overview: A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-17
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Festival
Overview: 'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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Paddington 2
Overview: Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Overview: It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-06
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The Souvenir: Part II
Overview: In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-11
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Overview: The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Soul
Overview: Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Wynde: Behind the Man
Overview: Documentary on Tim Wynde made by a British television company shortly after the first broadcast of 'AD/BC.' However, owing to a lengthy legal dispute between Wynde and his lyricist Soloman Homerton, it was never shown on UK TV. This cut down version was aired in Spain in the mid-80s.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-19
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Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas
Overview: The holidays take a hit as Kaz juggles the Secret Santa competition, his Aunt Angelique's visit and his nemesis Arcangelo's Christmas plotting.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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22 vs. Earth
Overview: Set before the events of ‘Soul’, 22 refuses to go to Earth, enlisting a gang of 5 new souls in attempt of rebellion. However, 22’s subversive plot leads to a surprising revelation about the meaning of life.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-30
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Danger Island
Overview: 16 year-old climate activist Hanna works tirelessly to raise climate awareness and fight against global warming, but the last person listening to her warnings is her own consumerist father, Tim. Yearning to be understood, Hanna runs away from home to the far-flung island home of her idol, eccentric weather scientist Dr Kaos. But the meeting of these two like-minded thinkers takes a deadly turn when Hanna realises Kaos’ dark plan for ending the world crisis once and for all.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Overview: A spellbinding performance film by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, bringing to life the remarkable story the extraordinary Geraldine Flower, and the discovery of a suitcase of letters sent to her in the 1960s and 70s that inspired acclaimed Icelandic singer/songwriter Emilíana Torrini to return to the studio.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-09
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The Phoenician Scheme
Overview: The story of a family and a family business.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-23
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The Mighty Boosh: Inside the Zooniverse
Overview: Documentary of the creation of Series 1 of The Mighty Boosh.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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