About
Mark Gatiss
Overview
Mark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He is known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen alongside Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock, the latter of which he also co-created.
Known for
Acting |
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| 2025 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | Actor | NSA | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Moonflower Murders | Actor | Frank Parris / Oscar Berlin | 67 Fair |
| 2024 | National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue | Actor | Sir John Gielgud | 59 Average |
| 2023 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Actor | Sherlock Holmes | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Hammer A.D. 2023 | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Actor | NSA | 73 Good |
| 2023 | Nolly | Actor | Larry Grayson | 68 Fair |
| 2022 | A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story | Actor | Jacob Marley | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Peter Davison: Uncut! | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2022 | The Road Dance | Actor | Doctor Maclean | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Merrily, Merrily | Actor | Callum | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Operation Mincemeat | Actor | Ivor Montazac | 62 Fair |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Actor | Mr. Wickens | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Memento Mori | Actor | Henry Huxley | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | The Sparks Brothers | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2021 | A Silent Imprisonment | Actor | Mr Murphy | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Locked Down | Actor | Donald | 56 Average |
| 2020 | The Father | Actor | The Man | 78 Good |
| 2020 | Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | Tales of the Uncanny | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | In Search of Dracula | Actor | Himself - Presenter | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Dracula | Actor | Frank Renfield | 69 Fair |
| 2019 | Doctor Who and the Third Man | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | Brexit: The Uncivil War | Actor | Peter Mandelson (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Actor | Radio Announcer (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Actor | Lord Marlborough | 73 Good |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III | Actor | George III | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! | Actor | Various Characters | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art | Actor | Himself - Presenter | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Christopher Robin | Actor | Giles Winslow | 70 Good |
| 2018 | The Mercy | Actor | Ronald Hall | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time | Actor | The Captain | 63 Fair |
| 2017 | Gunpowder | Actor | Sir Robert Cecil | 68 Fair |
| 2017 | Mars: a Traveller's Guide | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Against the Law | Actor | Dr. Landers | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Denial | Actor | Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt | 64 Fair |
| 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Actor | Joel | 57 Average |
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | Actor | Billy Matlock | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Dad's Army | Actor | Colonel Theakes | 56 Average |
| 2016 | Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Actor | Mycroft Holmes | 74 Good |
| 2015 | Victor Frankenstein | Actor | Dettweiler | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2015 | The Vote | Actor | Steven Crosswell | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Release the Hound! | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | Coalition | Actor | Peter Mandelson | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Mapp and Lucia | Actor | Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint | 68 Fair |
| 2014 | 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Real History of Science Fiction | Actor | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: Coriolanus | Actor | Menenius Agrippa | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Unlocking Sherlock | Actor | Himself / Mark Gatiss | 60 Fair |
| 2013 | M.R. James: Ghost Writer | Actor | Presenter | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Dr. Forever! | Actor | Himself | 70 Good |
| 2012 | Doctor Who: The Great Detective | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss | Actor | Self - Host | 59 Average |
| 2012 | The Real Sherlock Holmes | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness | Actor | Self - Actor and Writer | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Cleaning Up | Actor | Mr Jackson | 59 Average |
| 2011 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Actor | Henry Rackham Junior | 70 Good |
| 2010 | The First Men in the Moon | Actor | Cavor | 58 Average |
| 2010 | A History of Horror | Actor | Self - Presenter | 71 Good |
| 2010 | Unlocking Sherlock | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Worried About the Boy | Actor | Malcolm McLaren | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Ghosts in the Machine | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2009 | Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen | Actor | Ernest Dunks | 59 Average |
| 2009 | New Town | Actor | Duff Purves | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Crooked House | Actor | The Curator | 68 Fair |
| 2008 | Crooked House | Actor | The Curator | 62 Fair |
| 2008 | Clone | Actor | Colonel Black | 70 Good |
| 2008 | Sense and Sensibility | Actor | John Dashwood | 73 Good |
| 2007 | Consenting Adults | Actor | PC Butcher | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Jekyll | Actor | Robert Louis Stevenson | 73 Good |
| 2007 | The Worst Journey in the World | Actor | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | 58 Average |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | Actor | (segment "Don't") (uncredited) | 67 Fair |
| 2007 | Don't | Actor | Roddy McDowel | 60 Fair |
| 2006 | The Wind in the Willows | Actor | Rat | 58 Average |
| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You | Actor | Hilary Briss / Mickey Michaels / Val Denton / Les McQueen / Lance Longthorne / Alvin Steele / Phil Proctor / Mrs Beasley / Mick McNamara / Neds / Lotte Lipp / Brian Morgan / Dr Chinnery / Iris Krell / Bobbin | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Fear of Fanny | Actor | Johnnie Cradock | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 | Actor | Bamber Gascoigne | 61 Fair |
| 2006 | Free Jimmy | Actor | Jakki (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Return of the Goodies | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Match Point | Actor | Ping-Pong Player | 71 Good |
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Actor | Miss Blight (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2005 | Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Actor | Self - The League of Gentlemen | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Actor | Various Characters | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Actor | Additional Vogon Voices | 66 Fair |
| 2005 | The Quatermass Experiment | Actor | John Paterson | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New Dimension | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | Actor | Kenyon | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? | Actor | Terry Scanlon | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Spaced: Skip to the End | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | Actor | Radio Presenter With 'Spaceship' Theory / Wildlife voiceover (voice) (uncredited) | 74 Good |
| 2004 | Sex Lives of the Potato Men | Actor | Jeremy | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Nighty Night | Actor | Glenn Bulb | 72 Good |
| 2003 | The Kneale Tapes | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Actor | House Agent | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe | Actor | Viking (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali | Actor | Louis Aragon | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Cicerones | Actor | John Trant | 59 Average |
| 2001 | The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | Actor | various | 59 Average |
| 2001 | The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | Actor | Various | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Birthday Girl | Actor | Porter | 58 Average |
| 2000 | The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave! | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1999 | The Web of Caves | Actor | The Doctor | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The Pitch of Fear | Actor | Mr. Borusa | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The Kidnappers | Actor | Mark | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The League of Gentlemen | Actor | 73 Good |
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| 1998 | In the Red | Actor | Junior Detective | 69 Fair |
| 1998 | This Morning with Richard Not Judy | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 1997 | Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1996 | Unnatural Selection | Actor | Mr. Emerson | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary | Actor | Self - Interviewer | 59 Average |
| 1995 | The Devil of Winterborne | Actor | Georgie | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1994 | The Dwelling Place | Actor | Bowmer | 69 Fair |
| 1994 | The Zero Imperative | Actor | Dr. William Bruffin | 59 Average |
| Highgate House of Horror | Actor | 59 Average |
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| Bookish | Actor | Gabriel Book | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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| 2023 | Lot No. 249 | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Count Magnus | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Martin's Close | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2013 | The Tractate Middoth | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
Writing |
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| 2023 | Lot No. 249 | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Count Magnus | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story | Writing | Adaptation | 59 Average |
| 2021 | A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Martin's Close | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Writing | Writer | 74 Good |
| 2013 | M.R. James: Ghost Writer | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2013 | The Tractate Middoth | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Sherlock: Many Happy Returns | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Writing | Writer | 64 Fair |
| 2012 | Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Hallowe'en Party | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | The First Men in the Moon | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Crooked House | Writing | Writer | 62 Fair |
| 2007 | The Worst Journey in the World | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You! | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2006 | The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You | Writing | Author | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2001 | The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave! | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The Pitch of Fear | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The Kidnappers | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The Web of Caves | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Winterborne | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Unnatural Selection | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1995 | The Devil of Winterborne | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1994 | The Zero Imperative | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| Bookish | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2020 | Dracula | Production | Executive Producer | 69 Fair |
| 2019 | Martin's Close | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Queers. | Production | Producer | 68 Fair |
| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Production | Executive Producer | 74 Good |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Production | Executive Producer | 64 Fair |
| 2010 | Sherlock | Production | Executive Producer | 85 Very good |
| 2008 | Crooked House | Production | Producer | 68 Fair |
| 2007 | The Worst Journey in the World | Production | Co-Producer | 58 Average |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
Crew |
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| 2016 | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Crew | Creator | 74 Good |