Sean Hughes

Acting

Sean Hughes

Born — Died

1965-11-10 — 2017-10-16

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Sean Hughes (born John Hughes; November 10, 1965 – October 16, 2017) was an English-born Irish stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He starred in his own television show Sean's Show and was one of the regular team captains on the BBC Two musical panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Hughes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 27 titles

The Long Bank Holiday poster
8.0

A spate of computer thefts from government offices, a possible suicide under the wheels of a high-speed train, an absconded lifer on the loose, and a grisly trove of human bones in a garden all conspire to keep Davies on the job during a long Easter weekend.

The Long Bank Holiday

2004

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind poster
5.1

Robbie and Donner's wedding is interrupted when Donner is kidnapped by aliens. Robbie saves the day again though with the help of his friends and an alien crystal.

Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind

2007

HiT Favourites: Happy Children's Favourites poster
NR

Happy Children's Favourites brings you all your child's favourite characters in this brilliant collection of fun packed stories. With more than 2 hours of laughter and giggles this collection is bound to ensure they'll be happy and you'll know it!

HiT Favourites: Happy Children's Favourites

2006

Top of the Pops: The True Story poster
NR

BBC documentary on the long-running British TV show, Top of the Pops.

Top of the Pops: The True Story

2001

Rubbadubbers: Splish! Splash! Splosh! poster
NR

This film was created from 5 episodes from Rubbadubbers (2003-2005), condensed into a single film.

Rubbadubbers: Splish! Splash! Splosh!

2005

Benefit to Mankind poster
NR

With a history of depression, a bloodstream full of booze, and a high-pressure job in medical research, Henry Winton seems like an open-and-shut suicide case after his body turns up in the canal. But the more Davies looks at SwanMed, the less he likes--particularly when Winton's pretty young coworker goes missing.

Benefit to Mankind

2004

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe poster
5.5

Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - Donner is feeling neglected and decides to give Robbie an ultimatum. Can Robbie save the day, keep his girl and unravel the mystery of the Legend of the Lost Tribe?

Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe

2002

The Dead Peasants Society poster
NR

A semi-secret fraternal organization modeled loosely on the Masons apparently appears to be running a life insurance scam.

The Dead Peasants Society

2007

Friends Reunited poster
NR

Two decades after they graduate, dark secrets, jealousies, and long-buried issues of resentment arise with a group of former classmates.

Friends Reunited

2005

Thomas & Friends: Engines to the Rescue poster
10.0

Thomas and Friends are back with 8 exciting new episodes never seen before on video/DVD. Join Thomas, Gordon, Harold, Spencer, Skarloey, Peter Sam, Arthur, Percy, and the Fat Controller for more rescue-packed adventures on the Island of Sodor.

Thomas & Friends: Engines to the Rescue

2004

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden poster
4.5

The funny side of a veteran nightclub comedy team with a long list of females conquests is poisoned during a live performance.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

2007

Once Upon a Time on the Westway poster
NR

On the same day a notorious crime kingpin Jimmy Vincent is released from prison, there is a daring armored car diamond heist of diamonds using his m.o.

Once Upon a Time on the Westway

2007

Three Steps to Hendon poster
NR

The lead singer of a defunct 70s rock band is found murdered with a whisky bottle stuffed down his throat

Three Steps to Hendon

2005

Girl on a Cycle poster
NR

A man grows suspicious of his cycling enthusiast fiancée's mood swings and asks an eccentric private investigator to follow her. As he begins to tail her, the PI starts to suspect that she is the serial murderess responsible for the deaths of five hitchikers, and convinces the man too - but is the truth something much more ordinary that neither man can comprehend?

Girl on a Cycle

2003

Rubbadubbers: Tubb's Pirate Treasure poster
NR

TUBB THE PIRATE: Tubb wishes he were brave. If only he were a pirate! TERENCE OF ARABIA: Terence does not like being splashed! If only he were someplace dry like the desert! SPLOSHY OF THE ARCTIC: Cooling off in the bathroom on a hot day sounds great to everyone except Sploshy! SUPER AMELIA: Wishing for superpowers, Amelia finds herself training to be a superhero, competing against Fintastic Finbar! DEEP SEA REG: Reg wants to play underwater games with his friends.

Rubbadubbers: Tubb's Pirate Treasure

2004

Four Men in a Plane poster
NR

Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toilet but Tim is annoyed that he is two air miles short of joining the others in club class. On arrival in North Africa, they decide to charter a plane rather than face a fifteen-hour coach journey to the conference.

Four Men in a Plane

2000

Tricia poster
10.0

Davies discovers a link between three separate investigations - an armed robbery at a job centre, the disappearance of a pensioner and a routine house burglary.

Tricia

2003

The Last Detective poster
NR

A disrespected but decent detective unravels a cold case about a missing seventeen year old girl while trying to deal with the breakup of his marriage.

The Last Detective

2003

Dangerous Liaisons poster
NR

When detectives investigate a seemingly natural death of an old man, they discover a disturbing tape in his possession which alongside old family memories also features the murder of a woman. After tracking down the dead man's ex-wife and his estranged son they try to discover a link between the mans death and the horrific videotape.

Dangerous Liaisons

2007

Puckoon poster
6.3

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

Puckoon

2002

The Man from Montevideo poster
NR

DC Davies investigates the murder of a limousine driver who is found in his limo, his neck was slashed with a broken bottle. The investigation focuses on his previous evening's customers but it appears the driver also had secrets. He'd been living in Uruguay until a few months before and apparently had undergone extensive plastic surgery. The case takes a decisive turn when the victim is identified as a former London cabbie who disappeared after a passenger left a case with 2 million pounds in his cab.

The Man from Montevideo

2007

Christine poster
6.0

Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.

Christine

2004

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts poster
NR

Brought to the station after nicking some sweets, a waifish Eastern European girl refuses to give even her name. What starts out as a simple case of shoplifting turns into apparent murder, however, after Davies finds the girl's mother strangled. The trail leads to some surprising suspects from a video matchmaking service.

Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts

2004

Rubbadubbers: Bathtime Scramble! poster
NR

A condensation of 4 episodes and 3 shorts from Rubbadubbers (2003-2005) that lend the characters to hastily prepare for bathtime.

Rubbadubbers: Bathtime Scramble!

2004

Towpaths of Glory poster
NR

A decorated war hero with a history of domestic violence is found in a garbage pile shot in the head.

Towpaths of Glory

2005

No artwork available
NR

Sean Hughes returns to the stand-up stage with his first national UK tour in nearly a decade. The Right Side of Wrong marks a return to the comedy circuit for one of the most distinctive and darkly explosive exponents of the art of stand-up.

Sean Hughes - Live: The Right Side of Wrong

2007

Willesden Confidential poster
NR

Dangerous Davies investigates the death of Geoff Fallon, a stock car driver who was killed during a race at the local stadium when his car exploded due to a leaky fuel line. There seemed to be a considerable animosity with his brother, also a stock car driver, but it turns that Fallon was convicted of killing a child with his car some years previously and the dead child's older brother was working at the stadium on the night in question. When a second person is killed, Davies determines that the case is far more complex than originally thought. Meanwhile, all of the officers at the local station are under investigation when information is leaked to the press.

Willesden Confidential

2005

1990s · 11 titles

The Commitments poster
7.3

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

The Commitments

1991

The Butcher Boy poster
6.8

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.

The Butcher Boy

1998

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solo Shuttle

1998

The Greatest Store in the World poster
5.6

Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternative place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. Geraldine reacts quickly and the family decides to take up residence in Scottley's, the best department store in London. They must keep it a secret from doorman Brian (whom the girls call Mr. Whiskers), and a couple of bumbling thieves who want to rob the store safe of its jewels.

The Greatest Store in the World

1999

Fast Food poster
3.7

A reformed young man with a steady job, Benny, returns to the city of his youth to find the girl he's been in love with since childhood and that's home to his four petty criminal friends, Jacko, Zac, Bisto and Flea.

Fast Food

1998

Bill Hicks: It's Just a Ride poster
7.4

Short documentary / tribute to the late, truly great American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, included as an extra in several box sets. Bill Hicks passed away in 1994, taken tragically young aged only 32. His legend and reputation, however, continue to grow. "It's Just a Ride" is a celebration of his life and work, featuring numerous clips of Bill's many recorded stand-up performances, along with trbutes from Sean Hughes, Eric Bogosian, David Letterman and Eddie Izzard, amongst others.

Bill Hicks: It's Just a Ride

1994

Never Rewind the Buzzcocks poster
8.5

Compilation from the quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Never Rewind the Buzzcocks

1998

Sean Hughes - Live and Seriously Funny poster
8.0

Early live stand up show from Sean Hughes.

Sean Hughes - Live and Seriously Funny

1994

Totally Bill Hicks poster
7.8

Consisting of two parts: ‘Revelations’, Bill Hicks’ last live performance in the United Kingdom made at the Dominion Theatre; and a documentary about Hicks’ life ‘Just a Ride’ featuring interviews with friends, admirers, and family.

Totally Bill Hicks

1998

No artwork available
NR

The 1995 stand up show from the Perrier prize winning comic Sean Hughes.

Sean Hughes is 30 Somehow

1995

Snakes and Ladders poster
4.4

A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.

Snakes and Ladders

1996

Series credits

Casualty poster
6.2

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Casualty

1986

Agatha Christie's Marple poster
7.8

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

Never Mind the Buzzcocks poster
7.1

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996

Murder Most Horrid poster
6.9

Comedienne Dawn French tackles dark, tongue-in-cheek thrillers as her various characters embark on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another, she is involved with murder — either committing the crime or even getting bumped off herself!

Murder Most Horrid

1991

Fear Factor poster
5.8

Competition reality series in which contestants must decide if they have the guts and determination to face their fears while outpacing the competition.

Fear Factor

2001

The Last Detective poster
7.8

"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.

The Last Detective

2003

Rubbadubbers poster
7.4

The Rubbadubbers are fun-loving bath toys who spring to life when nobody's looking. When they're not splashing about in the bathroom, they imagine themselves in fantastical adventures where they live out their wishes… and their possible consequences.

Rubbadubbers

2003

Gormenghast poster
6.9

At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.

Gormenghast

2000

No artwork available
NR

A look at endangered species in the regions around the UK

Saving Planet Earth UK

2007

What a Load of Buzzcocks poster
4.5

Highlights series presenting the best of 16 years of Never Mind the Buzzcocks pop history.

What a Load of Buzzcocks

2013

Sean's Show poster
6.0

Sean's Show was a United Kingdom television situation comedy broadcast on Channel 4. Stand-up comedian Sean Hughes co-wrote and starred as a fictionalised version of himself, aware of the fact he was living in a sitcom. It received a nomination for the 1992 British Comedy Award for Best Channel 4 Sitcom.

Sean's Show

1992

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over

1999

Behind the camera