When did you first become aware of this uniquely talented actor? I saw him as Touchstone in As You Like It, an open air production in the gardens of Worcester College, Oxford University in the summer of 1977, when I was an undergraduate law student there and he was studying for his D.Phil in Engineering at the Queen's College, Oxford University. He shone. That summer he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe, was given a TV contract ("Not The Nine O'Clock News") and never returned to his studies.
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Fri, September 10, 2004 - 3:04 PMWow. Rowan as a young guy...can't even imagine. -
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Fri, September 10, 2004 - 3:56 PMWow, Rowan as Touchstone--what a treat!
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 2:00 PMBlack Adder WAS my first taste of Rowan! He is so talented! Saturday nights were becoming awfully drab in the programming lineup. One day we flipped over to PBS and there he was! I've never looked back. ;) -
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 3:46 PMI can't remember if it was Black Adder or The Witches but it was one of those two.
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 4:00 PMFirst actually *saw* him in Never Say Never. First aware of him in Mr. Bean.
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 4:12 PMBlackadder when I was a child. My whole family (both sides of divorced) loved the show. -
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 11:43 PMRowan is actually filming where I live, on the Isle of Man, right now, in his new film with Patrick Swayze called "Keeping Mum". Something to look out for - nothing better than seeing him for the first time than seeing him again and again. -
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 10:38 AMi forgot he was in never say never. i probably saw him in that first but was first "aware" of him in black adder. -
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 10:53 AMI first saw Rowan on some comedy show doing a one man routine where he played the devil sorting people out as they arrived in hell.
One of the funniest lines I remember was "Christians, line up over there. Yes, the Jews were right." Or something like that. -
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Sun, March 20, 2005 - 3:55 PMhe does great work in The Thin Blue Line too... -
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Wed, August 24, 2005 - 5:41 PMI saw him in the "Secret Policman's Other Ball" Movie back in 1982.
He did the "Four Yorkshireman's" sketch.
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Thu, August 25, 2005 - 11:57 AMHe first cracked me up in the film "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" waaaaaaaay back when.
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Tue, August 30, 2005 - 2:37 PMI first became aware of Rowan Atkinson on "Not the Nine O'Clock News" in 1979. This topically irreverent comedy show was like a breath of fresh air after the likes of "The Two Ronnies" etc. I loved it!
