Hugh Laurie Filmography

Street Kings

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD Vice Detective who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced that he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective in his work. LAPD veteran Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves Read More

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '06/'07

Actors: Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Darrell Hammond, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live: The Best of '06/'07 collects some of the most well-known moments from that season of the sketch comedy program. Highlights include the award-winning music video "D*** in a Box," Amy Poehler and Mya Rudolph as Bronx housewives who host a local TV talk show, and the Read More

House: Season 04

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard

House: Season 03

Synopsis: Although he has recovered from the gunshot wound administered by the husband of a former patient at the end of House's second season, Season Three finds the unabashedly misanthropic Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) still suffering from a plethora of emotional wounds, wracked with self-doubt about Read More

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Synopsis: The little mouse with a big heart is back in this animated, straight-to-video sequel that finds Stuart enlisting the help of a few new friends in rescuing Snowbell from the steely clawed clenches of a fearsome forest creature known only as "The Beast." As the Littles packs their bags for a Read More

Saturday Night Live: Hugh Laurie

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Beck

Synopsis: This 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Hugh Laurie and features musical guest Beck. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Valiant

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Inspired by the true-life story of carrier pigeons who were trained to carry vital information for the Allied forces across the English Channel during World War II, this computer-animated adventure comedy focuses on Valiant (voice of Ewan McGregor), a wood pigeon who has volunteered to do his part Read More

House: Season 02

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer

Synopsis: Season Two of House begins as the gloriously obnoxious and abrasive Dr. Gregory House, head nephrologist at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, stubbornly (and somewhat perversely) trying to save the life of a seriously ill death-row inmate over the objections of his colleagues. Perhaps House Read More

Flight of the Phoenix

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon James Stewart. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could Read More

House: Season 01

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison

Synopsis: The misanthropic title character of the Fox hospital series House growls, grunts, glowers, winces and limps his way through a variety of curious and bizarre medical cases during the series' first season on the air. For starters, Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) must determine if a schoolteacher is Read More

Stuart Little [Animated TV Series]

Actors: David Kaufman, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Hale, Myles Jeffrey, Matthew Kaminsky, Kevin Schon

Synopsis: Having already inspired two feature films combining live action with computer animation, E.B. White's whimsical 1945 children's book Stuart Little was transformed into a 13-episode, cel-animated TV series, which debuted in America over the HBO Family cable channel on March 8, 2003. As before, the Read More

The Young Visiters

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Lyndsey Marshal, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Palmer

Synopsis: This made-for-TV British comedy begins at the turn of the century, as bumbling ironmonger Alfred Salteena (Jim Broadbent) meets a pretty girl named Ethel Monticue (Lyndsey Marshal) on a train and invites her to his London flat. Hoping to impress the girl, Alfred brags about all the "important" Read More

Fortysomething [TV Series]

Actors: Hugh Laurie

Stuart Little 2

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Nathan Lane

Synopsis: This sequel to a family hit based on the popular children's book by E.B. White again mixes live action actors with computer-animated cartoon characters. Michael J. Fox returns as the voice of Stuart Little, a three-inch tall talking mouse adopted by a human family in New York City. When his older Read More

Maybe Baby

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Dawn French, Tom Hollander, Hugh Laurie, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: In this light comedy directed by British writer-comedian Ben Elton, Sam and Lucy Bell (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) are an upwardly mobile London couple who are trying desperately to conceive a baby. Along for the ride, which is laden with sperm-count and hormone-injection jokes, is a cast Read More

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: From her gradual ascent to stardom in the 1930s to her death from a drug overdose at age 47 in 1969, former vaudeville baby Frances Ethel Gumm, aka Judy Garland, endured a string of personal and career ups and downs that continues to color her reputation as an icon whose tragedies outweighed her Read More

Girl From Rio

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunes, Santiago Segura, Lia Williams, Patrick Barlow

Synopsis: A mild-mannered banker finds himself living out his wildest dreams, only to wake up to a major dilemma in a continent-hopping comedy. Raymond (Hugh Laurie) is a British bank clerk who doesn't much care for his job, and whose marriage to Cathy (Lia Williams) has hit a rut. It would appear Cathy Read More

Little Grey Rabbit [Animated Series]

Synopsis: Allison Uttley's children's books The Squirrel, The Hare, and (of course) The Little Grey Rabbit served as source material for this animated British series. The Rabbit was the best friend of the Hare, who in turn was the best friend of the Squirrel, who in turn was another best friend of the Read More

Stuart Little

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

Black Adder Back and Forth

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of royal scoundrel Edmund Blackadder in this hilariously skewered romp through British history. On the eve of the New Millennium, the latest incarnations of Blackadder and his eternal flunkey Baldrick step into a time machine, purportedly based on a design by Read More

Carnivale

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Laurie, Steve Brody, David Antrobus, Amanda Ebbington

Synopsis: In this animated family story, a group of children are playing at the beach when they pass through a mysterious window in time. They find themselves transported back to an amusement park from the early part of the 20th century, and they have a grand time playing with the puppets and fooling each Read More

Cousin Bette

Actors: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of Read More

Spice World

Actors: Spice Girls, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, Richard E. Grant, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Bob Spiers (director of TV's Absolutely Fabulous) directed this feature-film debut of the five Spice Girls -- Posh Spice, Sporty Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice, and Baby Spice -- as the quintet challenges the London pop scene during five days before their first live performance at the Royal Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated Randall Wallace (Braveheart) made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the 1848 classic by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), Athos (John Malkovich), and Porthos (Gerard Depardieu Read More

The Borrowers

Actors: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Hewitt (Tom and Huck) directed this $30-million family film, an adaptation of Mary Norton's classic children's novels about a miniature family of wee folk, four inches high, living beneath the floorboards of an English cottage. The Borrowers family, so labeled because they "borrow" from the Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Dawn French, Juliet Stevenson, Chris Barrie, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Young Jim Hawkins and the pirate Long John Silver race to find the same treasure located on a mysterious map in this animated adaptation of the timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

101 Dalmatians

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: There are more puppies than you can shake a rolled up newspaper at in this live-action remake of the Disney animated favorite 101 Dalmatians. Roger (Jeff Daniels) is a designer of computer games who shares his home with his pet dalmatian, Pongo. One day, Roger takes Pongo for a walk in the park Read More

The Adventures of Mole

Actors: Richard Briers, Peter Davison, Paul Eddington, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: A followup to the 1995 animated special Mole's Christmas, The Adventures of Mole is one of a series of hour-long, British-made cartoons based on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. In this one, the shy, bookish Mole develops a thirst for excitement. Accompanied by his new friend Rat Read More

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 04

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry

Sense and Sensibility

Actors: Gemma Jones, Elizabeth Spriggs, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise

Synopsis: The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier Read More

Look at the State We're In

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Created by John Cleese of Monty Python fame, the twice-weekly TV series Look at the State We're In was a hilariously satirical spin on the British judicial and legislative system. Cleese was joined by a stellar cast of British comic talents in the series' six 25-minute episodes, which skewered Read More

A Pin for the Butterfly

Actors: Joan Plowright, Ian Bannen, Hugh Laurie, Imogen Stubbs, Ian Hogg

Synopsis: This complex political drama zeroes in on the life of a small bourgeois family living in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. It is set in the 50's. The family is falling apart from the pressure to think along party lines, even in private. The mere mention of the West could result in prison, or worse. Little Read More

All or Nothing at All

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Bob Monkhouse, Pippa Guard, Steve Steen, Caroline Quentin, Phyllida Law

Synopsis: A charming grifter who boldly feeds off the greed of others must straighten up before he loses everything in this British crime drama featuring House M.D. star Hugh Laurie. Leo Hopkins (Laurie) is the kind of con man who can sweet talk his way out of even the tightest of jams; he isn't afraid to Read More

Peter's Friends

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Phyllida Law, Rita Rudner, Imelda Staunton

Synopsis: This comedy drama, a sort of British version of The Big Chill (1983), was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) Read More

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 03

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry

Jeeves & Wooster: Jeeves' Arrival

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry

Synopsis: The comic tales of P.G. Wodehouse come to life in this series starring Hugh Laurie as the hapless Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as his loyal manservant Jeeves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Strapless

Actors: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard, Michael Gough

Synopsis: As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor boyfriend and embarks on a tour of European churches. After a chance encounter with charming businessman Raymond Forbes (Bruno Ganz), Lillian finds herself tempted to Read More

Jeeves & Wooster [TV Series]

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 02

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry

Black Adder Goes Forth: Plan C: Major Star

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Anxious to be transferred far away from the trenches of France, Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) arranges a musical show for the top brass. The plan comes acropper when Baldrick (Tony Robinson) stops the show with a disgusting Charlie Chaplin impression. Making matters even dicier, the Read More

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 01

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry

Black Adder Goes Forth: Plan B: Corporal Punishment

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Again hoping to avoid WWI combat duty, Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) destroys the orders for "Operation Insanity" and eats the messenger pigeon. Alas, the bird was a particular favorite of General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett (Stephen Fry). As a result, Edmund, aka the Read More

Black Adder Goes Forth: Plan F: Goodbyeee

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Faced with the prospect of joining the AEF in the "big push" against the Germans, Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) goes insane -- or at least he pretends to. Only a last-minute phone call to Field Marshall Douglas Haig (Geoffrey Palmer) stands between Edmund and the Kaiser's guns. Will Read More

Black Adder Goes Forth: Plan E: General Hospital

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: Assigned to the British secret service, Blackadder goes undercover at an army hospital to ferret out a German spy. Among the suspects is shapely Nurse Mary (Miranda Richardson), with whom Edmund immediately falls in lust. And what about Brigadier Smith (Bill Wallis), who speaks with a pronounced Read More

Black Adder Goes Forth: Plan D: Private Plane

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: As part of his never-ending efforts to avoid the German ground troops during WWI, Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) signs up with the Royal Air Corps. Crashing behind enemy lines, Edmund is captured by the enemy, forcing Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall) to race to Read More

Black Adder Goes Forth: Plan A: Captain Cook

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: The fourth series of Blackadder episodes, logically titled Blackadder Goes Forth, commenced on September 28, 1989. Rowan Atkinson was back as the latest in a long line of Blackadders, this one named Captain Edmund. Having joined the Army to meet beautiful and willing damsels, the cowardly Edmund Read More

Black Adder's Christmas Carol

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Patsy Byrne

Synopsis: The cast and crew of the satirical British comedy series Blackadder reunited for this perverse one-hour spin on Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Rowan Atkinson stars as Ebeneezer Blackadder, a kindly and beloved London businessman. Alas, Ebeneezer is too warm-hearted and generous to suit his greedy Read More

Black Adder the Third: Sense and Senility

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Hugh Paddick

Synopsis: Surviving an assassination attempt, the Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie) concludes that he'd be more popular if learned to give decent speeches to the masses. To that end, the Prince hires a pair of noted thespians, Keanrick (Hugh Paddick) and Mossop (Kenneth Connor), to give him elocution lessons. But Read More

Black Adder the Third: Duel and Duality

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Stephen Fry

Synopsis: The curtain fell on the satirical British sitcom Black Adder the Third with the episode titled "Duel and Duality." Accused of deflowering the two favorite nieces of "famous soldier" the Duke of Wellington (Stephen Fry), the Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie) is challenged to a duel. Ever anxious to curry Read More

Black Adder the Third: Amy and Amiability

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: To alleviate the Prince Regent's financial problems, Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) arranges for the Prince (Hugh Laurie) to marry the fabulously wealthy Amy Hardwood (Miranda Richardson). A series of improbable plot twists result in Edmund tying the knot with Amy himself. Worse yet, Amy turns Read More

Black Adder the Third: Dish and Dishonesty

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Vincent Hanna

Synopsis: The third series of Blackadder episodes (logically telecast in England under the blanket title Black Adder the Third commenced on September 17, 1987, with "Dish and Dishonesty." Inasmuch as the series' time frame has been moved up to the late 18th and early 19th century, star Rowan Atkinson is now Read More

Black Adder the Third: Ink and Incapability

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: The Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie) agrees to act as patron for the "fat dictionary" being written by Dr. Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane). Unfortunately, the boneheaded Baldrick (Tony Richardson) accidentally uses Dr. Johnson's manuscript for firewood. Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is faced with Read More

Black Adder the Third: Nob and Nobility

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Tim McInnerny

Synopsis: Once again, Edmund Blackadder is jealous of his betters; in this case, the object of his envy is the Scarlet Pimpernel. Determined to prove himself as fearless and daring as that "damn'd elusive Pimpernel," Edmund heads to France (a country that makes him violently ill) to rescue aristocrats on Read More

Secret Policeman's Third Ball

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Joan Armatrading, Jackson Browne, Paul Brady, Kate Bush

Synopsis: This 92-minute feature is the fifth in a series of annual concerts given to raise money for Amnesty International. The London Palladium is the setting for performances by such musical luminaries as Joan Armatrading, Jackson Browne, Kate Bush, Duran Duran, Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins, Peter Gabriel Read More

Black Adder II: Beer

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry

Synopsis: Ever anxious to one-up his fellow man, Lord Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) enters a beer-drinking contest. On the same day as the Big Event, who should show up but Edmund's puritanical, teetotalling uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Whiteadder (Daniel Thorndike, Miriam Margoyles). Adding to Read More

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Synopsis: This sketch comedy television special starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie was the impetus for the series of the same name that ran from 1989-1995 on the BBC. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Adder II: Chains

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry

Synopsis: The second series of Blackadder episodes ended on February 20, 1986, with "Chains." In response to a series of high-profile political abductions, Queen Elizabeth I (Miranda Richardson) adopts a strict no-ransom policy. Almost as if on cue, Lord Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and his crony Lord Read More

Saturday Live [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Though blatantly patterned after the long-running American series Saturday Night Live, Britain's Saturday Live tended to favor standup comedy over sketches. A number of major comic talents appeared on a regular basis during the series' two-season run, notably the erstwhile team of Adrian Edmondson Read More

Plenty

Actors: Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting

Synopsis: Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement Read More

Alfresco: Series 01

Actors: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Ben Elton