
Acting
Daniel Rigby
Born 1982-12-06 · Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Daniel Rigby (born December 6, 1982) is an English actor and comedian. He received a BAFTA TV Award for his leading role as Eric Morecambe in the 2011 BBC television film Eric and Ernie.
Acting credits
6.8When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
Cold Storage
2026
6.9The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
6.7A button-pushing comedian performs before an increasingly agitated crowd—until his body rebels against him and reveals the dark truth behind his one-liners.
Stand Up
2008
5.0David Walliams has co-created a brand new retelling of a classic fairytale, starring as the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk: Ever After. In Walliams’ version, the Giant didn’t die after falling off the beanstalk, but escaped with a concussion and no way back to his home. Stuck in a human village, he’s forced to seek help from the unlikeliest of sources – all the while attempting to outsmart the villagers.
Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After
2020
6.3Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.
National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors
2011
7.1Hansel and Gretel have fled the gingerbread house, but what if the wicked witch survived after all?
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
2021
8.7A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. The nearby households of Olivia and Orsino are overrun with passion. Even Olivia's upright housekeeper Malvolia is swept up in the madness. Where music is the food of love, and nobody is quite what they seem, anything proves possible.
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
2017
6.7Single drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's formative years, from child stars to national treasures. 'Big head, short legs' is Eric Bartholomew's first impression of Ernie Wiseman, but their friendship endures and, encouraged by his well-meaning but determined mother Sadie, Eric became the funny man to Ernie's 'feed'. After a successful stint in children's variety, they work their way up the ladder of live performance, but after a disastrous television debut in the series Running Wild, Morecambe and Wise learn to trust their own instincts and just make people laugh.
Eric & Ernie
2011
NRA history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011
6.8TV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When middle aged loners Tubby and Enid attend a reunion of the choir in which they sang as children, the music evokes powerful memories, leading them to realise they still have a chance to find happiness.
That Day We Sang
2014
4.5A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty.
Careful How You Go
2018
NRA special, fully-staged production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music, broadcast on air, online and via red button. Director Tim Carroll introduces the production in conversation with Louise Fryer. The Ladies’ Choir of the Enlightenment and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are conducted by Charles Hazlewood.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Live at Middle Temple Hall
2009
That Musical We Made is an honest and funny look at the making of a musical. Victoria Wood takes us behind the scenes of That Day We Sang, the film she wrote and directed, and also looks at the real events which inspired her story. She goes back to Manchester to find out about the original choir of the 1920s, and the children who sang on the record of Nymphs and Shepherds. And in between unpeeling the history and sharing the fun of the shoot, she tries to work out how a piece of writing can evolve. Victoria unpicks the process in an attempt to understand how what started as a straightforward account of a day in the life of a children's choir in 1929 ended up as a middle-aged love story about the power of music to reconnect lonely people and give them a second chance to fall in love.
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014
NRWill can't believe his luck when Chloe returns home with him after a hot date, but everything cools down when he discovers her hidden passion.
Chloe and Will's Hot Date Night
2011
1.0When Sally's husband is trapped in an underground cave during a diving accident she finds herself trapped in the company of a talkative constable and an unwelcome guest.
Sump
2017