Ricky Gervais Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1962
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: 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...Read More

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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson

Synopsis: Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon Read More

5/22/09
Ghost Town

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig, Dana Ivey

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear star in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy concerning a dentist who gains the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a routine dental surgery. When the dearly departed begin requesting that the dentist act as a point person between the Read More

9/19/08
This Side of the Truth

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais directs himself in This Side of the Truth, a comedy in which everyone in the world tells the truth except for one misfit in the film industry, who after discovering the act of lying, milks it to become the world's most phenomenal performer. Matthew Robinson will co-direct from his Read More

1/1/08
Stardust

Actors: Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller

Synopsis: A charmingly naïve boy from the English village of Wall travels to a magical, mythical world in search of the falling star that will help him win the heart of his true love in this fantasy adventure starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ricky Gervais, and Sienna Miller Read More

8/10/07
Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen

Synopsis: Enraged at the critical evisceration of his highly rated sitcom "When the Whistle Blows," an irrational Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) resorts to extreme measures in a desperate attempt to balance respectability with fame. Though television viewers tune in to his show in droves, Andy can't stand the Read More

2007
Concert for Diana

Actors: Prince William, Prince Harry, Elton John, Duran Duran, James Morris

Synopsis: Concert for Diana captures a 2007 tribute to the deceased Diana Spencer, the former Princess of Wales. Among the many performers who appear on the bill are Nelly Furtado, Elton John, Duran Duran, Rod Stewart, and Kanye West. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Night at the Museum

Actors: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams

Synopsis: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a Read More

12/22/06
For Your Consideration

Actors: Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small-town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives are turned upside down when they discover that their performances in Read More

11/17/06
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

8/19/05
Extras: Ben Stiller

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Boris Boskovic, Shawn Pye, Eleanor Matsuura, Thomas Byrne

Synopsis: On the set of a very serious film about atrocities in Bonia, directed by Ben Stiller, Maggie (Ashley Jensen) expresses an interest in Goran (Boris Boskovic), the on-set advisor whose tragic story is being told in the film. Andy (Ricky Gervais) helpfully warns her, "Never get involved with a man Read More

2005
Extras [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Show Creator

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the same team responsible for the runaway British TV hit The Office, were at it again with the weekly, half-hour comedy Extras. Ricky Gervais himself headed the cast as Andy Millman, a would-be actor in his early forties who quit his day job to become a Read More

2005
Extras: Kate Winslet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kate Winslet, Kevin Moore

Synopsis: This episode of Extras, the first aired on HBO, opens on the set of a WWII melodrama. Kate Winslet stars as a saintly nun protecting a group of Jews, among them Maggie (Ashley Jensen), while Andy (Ricky Gervais) plays a Nazi soldier. Suzanne (Charlotte Palmer), another extra, mentions to Andy that Read More

2005
Extras: Ross Kemp

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emma Thornett, Peter Sullivan, Katherine Parkinson, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Tony Way

Synopsis: Andy (Ricky Gervais) is an extra in a period film that stars Ross Kemp from EastEnders. His efforts to get more camera time, let alone a line, seem to be fruitless, as usual. "Cut it before the fat bloke gets his face in the shot," is typical of the things one hears on one of his sets. Andy takes Read More

2005
Extras: Patrick Stewart

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Andy (Ricky Gervais) and Maggie (Ashley Jensen) are extras on the set of a very serious Patrick Stewart film. Andy's nemesis, Greg (Shaun Pye), is also there, and he has a line, much to Andy's chagrin. Andy drops by Patrick Stewart's trailer in a desperate effort to further his career. Stewart Read More

2005
Extras: Les Dennis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Shawn Williamson

Synopsis: Andy's (Ricky Gervais) incompetent agent (Stephen Merchant) seems to think the reason Andy's not getting any offers is his shape. "If you insist on remaining a blob, could you at least get a tan?" he helpfully suggests. He does land Andy a role as a gay genie in a doomed stage production of Read More

2005
Extras: Samuel L. Jackson

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Grace Kingslene, David Ricardo-Pearce

Synopsis: Andy (Ricky Gervais) and Maggie (Ashley Jensen) are extras in a Samuel L. Jackson movie. Maggie's on-set crush this time is Dan (Michael Wildman), a black actor with a small role in the film. When Dan tells Maggie that there aren't a lot of roles available for black actors, she suggests he try Read More

2005
The Office [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The NBC sitcom The Office was based on the British comedy series of the same name, co-created by Ricky Gervais, who in the original series had also starred as David Brent, terminally disingenuous office manager of Wernham Hogg Paper Merchants (Slough Branch). The American version top-billed Steve Carell Read More

2005
The Office: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, B.J. Novak

Synopsis: The American TV version of the award-winning British sitcom The Office opens by establishing its faux documentary format, as Michael Scott (Steve Carell), regional manager of a branch office of Dunder-Mifflin Paper, jumps through hoops to convince the filmmakers that he presides over a happy Read More

2005
Extras: Season 01

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant

Synopsis: Most of the six episodes in the first season of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Extras follow a similar plot arc: bitter day player Andy (Gervais) trades barbs with his friend and colleague Maggie (Scottish actress Ashley Jensen), lobbies unsuccessfully for his agent (Merchant) to find him a Read More

2005
Alias: Facade

2004
The Office: Series 02

Actors: Ricky Gervais

2003
The Office Special

Synopsis: It's been three long years since the public last caught up with the cubicle-dwelling paper merchants of Wernham Hogg, and now viewers who may have wondered what became of The Office finally have a chance to see what became of their old friends. With David Brent (Ricky Gervais) abandoning his post Read More

2003
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

Actors: Ben Stiller, Ardal O'Hanlon, Jane Horrocks, Britney Spears, Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant, Brad Garrett, Paul Whitehouse, Jerry Stiller, Harry Enfield

2002
The Office: Series 01

Actors: Ricky Gervais

2001
The Office: Judgement

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: David (Ricky Gervais) fires the same forklift operator (Neil Fitzmaurice) he hired at the beginning of the first episode, which somehow leads to a discussion of the difference between midgets and dwarves. Malcolm (Robin Hooper) wonders why David has hired an assistant, Karen (Nicola Cotter), when Read More

2001
The Office: New Girl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Tim (Martin Freeman) tells Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) that he's leaving the firm to go back to school and study psychology. Gareth tests Tim's skill by asking him, "What am I thinking right now?" Tim makes a couple of good guesses, but it turns out to be, "Will there ever be a boy born who can swim Read More

2001
The Office [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A wildly popular British comedy series shot in mockumentary style, The Office detailed the daily struggles of the bored cubicle-dwellers at Wernham Hogg -- a paper supply company located in the quiet English town of Slough. Their boss, attention-craving lower middle manager David Brent (Ricky Gervais Read More

2001
The Office: Work Experience

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Pretty Donna (Sally Bretton) arrives in the office. David (Ricky Gervais) explains to everyone that she's the daughter of good friends of his, and staying at his flat, so "hands off." Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) offers to show her the ropes, and orders Tim (Martin Freeman) to move so she can use his Read More

2001
The Office: The Quiz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: It's Tim's (Martin Freeman) 30th birthday, so he shows up to work early, in the goofy radio hat his mother bought for him. David (Ricky Gervais) is excited because the quiz is tonight, and he and his pal Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson), sales rep extraordinaire, intend to dominate, as they have in Read More

2001
The Office: Downsize

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: David Brent (Ricky Gervais) introduces the documentary crew to the office receptionist, Dawn (Lucy Davis), snidely joking, "Every bloke in the office has woken up at the crack of Dawn." Tim (Martin Freeman) starts to describe his job as a sales rep, before trailing off. "I'm boring myself, talking Read More

2001
The Office: Training

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Lee (Joel Beckett) and Dawn (Lucy Davis) have an argument, and Dawn is considering calling off their engagement. Tim (Martin Freeman) tries to reassure her that things will work out, while Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) helpfully tells Dawn that she has another potential suitor in a warehouse worker he Read More

2001