
Acting
Tim Key
Born 1976-09-02 · Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Tim Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English writer, performance poet, comedian and actor. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
Acting credits
6.8Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Mickey 17
2025
7.4After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.
One Day
2011
6.3In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
See How They Run
2022
6.9When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
Wicked Little Letters
2024
6.5An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
The Double
2014
5.5After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
I Give It a Year
2013
5.6A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Greed
2019
6.1Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together.
Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020
7.2An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
2025
6.6When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
4.7Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
The Harry Hill Movie
2013
6.7Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily married middled aged couple. That is until Pauline tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio.
Talk Radio
2021
5.7While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day.
Love Wedding Repeat
2020
9.0It is the day of Rebecca and Jeremy's engagement party, and everyone (well, nearly everyone) has turned up to the old house to wish them well. Except that one of the bedrooms, the one with all the old baggage in it, has been left unlocked...
Sardines
2014
6.0A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.
Wonderdate
2018
NRWritten and narrated by award-winning UK comedian Tim Key (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Taskmaster, Alan Partridge), this bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong… Produced and directed by illustrator and animator Rob Ling, with music and sound by Paul Steel.
Sausage Poem
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6.9In 2013, Daniel Kitson wrote a play for two people (himself and (the mighty) Tim Key) to perform for a week or two at the (also mighty) Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. In 2015 that play was restaged at the (again, mighty) Old Vic in London for something like 28 performances, in total. This is one of those performances, in real time, start to finish.
Tree
2015
Silent comedy drama starring Tim Key and Matthew Perry as two men who try to entertain a crowd by throwing their dogs in the air.
The Dog Thrower
2014
8.2Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
2017
8.0A documentary recounting Sam Campbell's journey to create Chess Ham, the Chesham Chess Ham.
Chess Ham
2025
NRSTROKE OF GENIUS juxtaposes the calm and emptiness of a morning spent waiting for a letter, where ostensibly little to nothing happens, with the turmoil on a cosmic scale caused by the waiting man's existential ambivalence about his legacy and purpose.
Stroke of Genius
2025
NRA man in a coffee shop asks the barista if she ever thinks about him.
Regular
2017
NRA lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death.
The Overcoat
2017
NRA short film. In London, two separate couples go on dates with each other to try and fall in love.
Very Few Fish
2013
Behind the camera
7.2An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
2025
6.0A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.
Wonderdate
2018
NRWritten and narrated by award-winning UK comedian Tim Key (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Taskmaster, Alan Partridge), this bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong… Produced and directed by illustrator and animator Rob Ling, with music and sound by Paul Steel.
Sausage Poem
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4.0Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.
Anthony
2014
6.0Lottery winner, Charles Heath, pays a folk singer, Herb McGwyer, to visit to his private island and perform for him for a fee of half a million pounds. Isolated from the world, the jaded folk singer's passion for music is slowly reignited.
The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island
2007