Stephen MerchantFilmography

Cemetery Junction

Crew: Director

Actors: Ricky Gervais

The Invention of Lying

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

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais directs himself in The Invention of Lying, 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

Extras: Season 02

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant

Synopsis: In the second installment of Extras, The Office co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant again prove dexterous with comic pathos; the punch lines are at once can't-breathe funny and freighted with resonant emotion.

Season two begins with what seems like a win: long-suffering Read More

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

The Office: The Convict

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators of the British version of The Office, penned this episode, in which Michael discovers that a new employee is an ex-con. Michael ultimately gets rattled when his staff begins equating the office with prison. Meanwhile, Andy (Ed Helms) receives tips on Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Extras [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Show Creator

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators of the worldwide BBC hit The Office, return with this dry comedy about a pair of down-on-their-luck movie extras. Gervais stars as Andy Millman, an actor whose ambitions hardly live up to his day-to-day life as a background player. Wry and resigned Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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